Warner Brothers and Jaume Collet-Serra are still casting the Americanized, $90 million adaptation of Akira, and we have ... gang members Kaneda and Tetsuo. The adaptation also makes them brothers.

Akira's influence extends far beyond the Bike Slide, with its poster emulated plenty of times including for Brad Pitt's ...

Ky believes Tetsuo is headed to release a young boy. Akira, who has taken control of Tetsuo’s mind, Kaneda clashes with the Colonel’s troops on his way to stop Tetsuo from releasing Akira ...

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 ...

akira.wikia Kaneda is a bar owner in Neo-Manhattan who is stunned when his brother, Tetsuo, is abducted by government agents led by The Colonel. Desperate to get his brother back, Kaneda agrees to ...

Kaneda believes their theories to be ludicrous but after finding his brother again, is shocked when he displays telekinetic powers.Ky believes Tetsuo is headed to release a young boy, Akira ...

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.

“Akira” takes place in a dystopian near-future in a city called Neo-Tokyo, which was built after the old Tokyo was destroyed by a psychic attack. Enter a pair of teenage bikers, Tetsuo and ...

Akira is everywhere. Watch a modern Hollywood blockbuster and chances are you’ll see a reference to Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 anime masterpiece, probably in the form of the iconic “Akira ...

“Akira” (1988)Pioneer Ent ... and Zac Efron were supposedly looked at for the role of Kaneda. As for Tetsuo, the studio had considered Ezra Miller, James McAvoy, Michale Pitt and Richard ...