And like Akira, Tetsuo ultimately loses himself to the technological revolution, using inorganic material to create a new, devastating body that ultimately grows to terrifying sizes in the film ...

Akira’s monstrous character Tetsuo is a youngster who finds horrific forces mutating his body. Peter Parker shoots out embarrassing strands of web-goo, but Tetsuo’s whole body engorges into a ...

Soon, Tetsuo ignites a chain of events that threatens to destroy Neo-Tokyo once again. To definitively signal to audiences that Akira’s Neo-Tokyo is an unprecedented, futuristic interpretation ...

The story is, in part, an allegory for the fallout from the nuclear bombs dropped by the United States during World War II — where Akira represents the bomb and Tetsuo is the dreaded next calamity.

and West is shown lying inside of it as if he were Tetsuo. Later, a motorcyle sequence is housed in the video, and its distinctive taillight trails look exactly like those shown in Akira.

There are few anime films like Akira. Not only was it an adaptation ... unwittingly unleashed by unethical scientific research. Tetsuo’s childhood friend and erstwhile rival, Kaneda, fights ...

Michael Pitt, Paul Dano and Alden Ehrenreich are among those taking part in testing for a part opposite Garret Hedlund and possibly Kristen Stewart in the adaptation of the Japanese classic.

Michael Pitt, Paul Dano and Alden Ehrenreich are among those taking part in testing for a part opposite Garret Hedlund and possibly Kristen Stewart in the adaptation of the Japanese classic.