Akira (4K UHD + Blu-Ray)

Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is being rebuilt post World War III. In the opening scene, Kaneda and Tetsuo, two high school drop outs, stumble across a secret government project to develop new weapons – telekinetic humans. Tetsuo learns of the existence of his ‘peer’, Akira, the project's most powerful subject, and determines to challenge him…

Critic Reviews:

• " The opening motorbike chase is still thrilling, but the dedication to the backgrounds as well as crowds of people filling the screen, explosions happening in the distance, and a jaw-dropping sense of scope make Akira the classic that it is. " – Chris Stuckmann (ChrisStuckman­n.com)

• " Akira's strangeness is very startling and sometimes bewildering. But there is a thanatonic rapture to its vision of a whole world ending and being reborn as something else. " – Peter Bradshaw (Guardian)

• " Put it up there with the most astonishing animated features ever made. " – Derek Malcolm (London Evening Standard)