In 1988, the landmark Anime film AKIRA, by director Katsuhiro Otomo, defined the cutting edge of Anime around the world. By today's standards, Akira remains the pinnacle of cel animation and retains the explosive impact of its highly detailed animation and its intensely violent saga of power and corruption.
Neo-Tokyo has risen from the ashes of World War III to become a dark and dangerous megalopolis infested with gangs and terrorists. The biker gangs rule the streets. Among the gangs there are a two friends Tetsuo and Kaneda who have been friends since their childhood. And accident occurs and Tetsuo is taken the military and it turns out that Tetsuo holds super powers that not even he was aware. The result of this discovery leads Tetsuo to a rampage of the city searching for the one being that is more powerful than him......that being is a kid by the name Akira!