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Akira / Pioneer ; presented by Pioneer Entertainment (USA) Inc. ; Akira Committee production ; written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo ; producers, Ryohei Suzuki, Shunzo Kato ; screenplay, Katsuhiro Otomo, Izo Hashimoto, Shoji Yamashiro.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD PN6790.J3 O863 2001 discs 1-2
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Motorcyclists--Japan--Tokyo--Drama.
- Motorcyclists.
- Twenty-first century--Drama.
- Twenty-first century.
- Tokyo (Japan)--Drama.
- Tokyo (Japan).
- Japan--Tokyo.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Animated films.
- Science fiction films.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Special edition ; Anamorphic widescreen.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Pioneer Entertainment (USA) Inc., 2001.
- Language Note:
- English (5.1 surround) or Japanese (2.0 surround) language soundtracks with optional subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- 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.
- Participant:
- Iwata Mitsuo, Sasaki Nozomu, Koyama Mami.
- [English voiceover] Johnny Yong Bosch, Joshua Seth, Wendee Lee.
- Credits:
- Music, Yamashiro Shōji ; [Digitally remastered and English version. 2001] Producers, Tsukamoto Hiroe, Maseba Yutaka, Kanesaku Haruo ; director, Kevin Seymour ; screenplay & supervision, Kevin Seymour, Heidi Wilbur.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1987 ; Digitally remastered and English version released in 2001.
- Based on the graphic novel by Ōtomo Katsuhiro, first published by "Young Magazine," Kodansha Ltd.
- Aspect ratio 1.78:1.
- Special features (dicc 2): capsule option (English translation of graffiti) ; Akira production report ; interview with Katsuhiro Otomo ; stills of production materials and Akira glossary ; interviews with restoration staff ; original teasers and trailers.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Isaac Norris Library Fund.
- OCLC:
- 48049331
- Publisher Number:
- 11568 Pioneer Entertainment (USA) Inc.
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