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Film · 0 connectionsAkira (1988)
- Action
- Animation
- Science Fiction
- 124 min
- 12 age guide
- ★ 7.9/10 from 4,980 ratings
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
Directed byKatsuhiro Otomo
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