Episode 333: Akira (1988)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

Based on his manga of the same name, and released two years before the end of the comic series, Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira (1988) tells the tale of Kaneda -- a teenage punk in a motorcycle gang -- and Kei -- a member of an underground resistance -- and their adventures in NeoTokyo. They enter into a world of psychics including the titular Akira, the little boy with incredible powers that lead to the devastating explosion that opens the film.

Special guest Jonathan Clements, author of Anime: A History, provides Mike with some much-needed background on Japanese animation while co-hosts El Goro and Chris Cummins describe their love of Otomo's groundbreaking film.

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.6	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:12.2	Uh-huh.
0:14.7	All right. The story is you and your friends went out at night on your bikes to visit your dying mother and then another bunch of other
0:22.5	biker hooligans called the clowns attacked you.
0:25.0	They hurt your friend, you lost your temper,
0:27.2	and that's why eight of these clowns
0:28.6	are all now in the hospital,
0:30.1	and that is the truth.
0:31.6	What?
0:33.0	Uh,
0:33.1	uh,
0:33.6	ha,
0:34.1	ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,
0:35.6	ha, Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
0:39.3	Just hang on.
0:55.7	He's really hurt bad.
0:57.0	Who are those kids?
0:58.0	They seem to be an ordinary bike gang, sir.
1:00.2	Tetsu!
1:01.4	Hey, wait!
1:02.2	You can't take him away.
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