Title Akira / presented by Pioneer Entertainment(USA) Inc. in association with ZRO Limit Productions ; producers, Ryohei Suzuki, Shunzo Kato ; screenplay, Katsuhiro Otomo, Izo Hashimoto ; written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Publication Info.	[United States] : Pioneer Entertainment USA, 2001.
	1987.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials	DVD AKIRA	Check Shelf
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Audio Visual	DVD AKIRA	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	FOREIGN AD DVD AKIRA c.2	Check Shelf

Edition	Widescreen.
Description	1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details	DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English) and 5.1 DTS (Japanese).
Performer	Voices: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tetsusho Genda, Hiroshi Otake, Koichi Kitamura ; English voices: Johnny Yong Bosch, Joshua Seth, Wendee Lee.
Credits	Character design by Katsuhiro Otomo ; English adaptation by Michael Haller ; chief animator, Takashi Nakamura ; special effects artist, Takashi Maekawa.
Note	Based on the graphic novel by Katsuhiro Otomo.
	Videodisc release of the 1987 motion picture.
Summary	A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons laying dormant within his subconscious.
Language	Soundtracks in English or Japanese ; with English subtitles.
Note	GMD: videorecording.
Subject	Motorcyclists -- Japan -- Tokyo -- Drama.
	Twenty-first century -- Drama.
	Tokyo (Japan) -- Drama.
	Animated films.
	Feature films.
	Foreign films.
	Science fiction films.
Added Author	Ōtomo, Katsuhiro, 1954- Director. Screenwriter.
	Hashimoto, Izō. Screenwriter.
	Suzuki, Ryōhei, 1936- Producer.
	Katō, Shunzō. Producer.
	Iwata, Mitsuo, 1967-
	Sasaki, Nozomu, 1967-
	Koyami, Mami, 1955-
	Ōtomo, Katsuhiro, 1954- Akira.
	Pioneer Entertainment (USA)
Standard No.	013023172692
Music No.	11726 Pioneer

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