Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leo Lee

Part one of a two-part live action adaptation of the 1988 anime film, "Akira", in which the leader of a biker leader tries to save his kidnapped friend from a powerful supernatural experiment.

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Directed by: Ruairi Robinson

Release Date: December 31, 1988

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  • November 14, 2009
    Please don't make another Dragonball Evolution. There shouldn't be a single A-list star in it either or you'll ruin it.
  • September 16, 2009
    I am hopful for the live action version to be as good as the anime version.
  • April 20, 2009
    Unless they make this really dark and gritty and gruesome, I think this is going to be a big big miss. I have a feeling this will be awful, just turned into another hollywood action cgi crapfest.
  • April 4, 2009
    !!!MEGAWOW!!! TETSUOOOO KANEDAAAA
  • March 17, 2009
    I don't understand why a plot that can barely fill an animated feature will be stretched into two live action movies (besides the obvious reason we all know too damn well) I'll see the first one, but I'm not giving this adaptation much wiggle room.
  • August 24, 2008
    Please, Please, please- Don't screw this up!
  • August 21, 2008
    a remake of one of my fave anime's starring one of my fave actors? :-O hollywood pls dont bomb this
  • August 11, 2008
    this might be anime...but wutev it has leo dicaprio in it lol

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