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Title: Akira [videorecording] / presented by Pioneer Entertainment(USA) Inc. in association with ZRO Limit Productions ; producers, Ryohei Suzuki, Shunzo Kato ; screenplay, Katsuhiro Otomo, Izo Hashimoto ; written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.
Edition: Widescreen.
Description: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Published: [United States] : Pioneer Entertainment USA, 2001.
Publisher No.: 11726 Pioneer
System: DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English) and 5.1 DTS (Japanese).
Language Note: Soundtracks in English or Japanese ; with English subtitles.
Credits: Character design by Katsuhiro Otomo ; English adaptation by Michael Haller ; chief animator, Takashi Nakamura ; special effects artist, Takashi Maekawa.
Performer(s): Voices: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tetsusho Genda, Hiroshi Otake, Koichi Kitamura ; English voices: Johnny Yong Bosch, Joshua Seth, Wendee Lee.
Summary: A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons laying dormant within his subconscious.
Notes: Based on the graphic novel by Katsuhiro Otomo.
Videodisc release of the 1987 motion picture.
Subject(s): Motorcyclists Japan Tokyo Drama.
Twenty-first century Drama.
Animated films.
Feature films Japan.
Science fiction films.
Tokyo (Japan) Drama.
Other Author(s): Ōtomo, Katsuhiro, 1954-
Hashimoto, Izō.
Suzuki, Ryōhei.
Katō, Shunzō.
Iwata, Mitsuo, 1967-
Sasaki, Nozumo, 1967-
Koyami, Mami, 1955-
Ōtomo, Katsuhiro, 1954-
Pioneer Entertainment (USA)
Location(s):copy 1 Bailey/Howe Media Resources (videodisc) (Ground Floor)
Call Number: DVD 4161
Notes: CAMPUS USE INSTRUCTIONAL
Status:Not Charged Check Shelf

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