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Oct 3 - Oct 4
21:20 - 00:20
Akira 15

A groundbreaking film, the cult Akira by director, screenwriter, animator and comic book artist Katsuhiro Ohtomo, is one of the most influential animated or science-fiction films ever released.

Ohtomo adapted his own cyberpunk manga series to make the film, and it’s a near perfect realisation of comic book to screen in both style and substance. Set in a post-apocalyptic Japan in 2019, Tokyo has been destroyed and the city has relocated to “Neo-Tokyo”, a metropolis newly built on an artificial island in Tokyo Bay. The central characters are Kaneda and Tetsuo, two high school drop-outs and members of a joy-riding gang coming into conflict with rivals The Clowns, when they stumble upon a secret government project to develop telekinetic powers in children, apparently to use then as weapons.

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Cinema,
The Gulbenkian,
The University of Kent,
Canterbury,
Kent,
CT2 7NB
United Kingdom
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Cheap Night – Tickets only £4.50
E: boxoffice@kent.ac.uk
T: +44 1227 769075
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Categories: Film and television
Tags: Film

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Last Updated: 19/10/2012