TY - ADVS AU - Suzuki,Ryåohei AU - Katåo,Shunzåo AU - Hashimoto,Izåo AU - Iwata,Mitsuo AU - Sasaki,Nozumu AU - Koyami,Mami AU - Yamashiro,Shoji AU - Seymour,Kevin AU - åOtomo,Katsuhiro ED - Pioneer Entertainment (USA) TI - Akira AV - CM DVD 01053 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2001///] CY - [United States] PB - Pioneer Entertainment (USA) Inc. KW - Motorcyclists KW - Japan KW - Tokyo KW - Drama KW - Twenty-first century KW - Tokyo (Japan) KW - Baikåa KW - Nihon KW - Tåokyåo KW - Dorama KW - Feature films KW - Animated films KW - Science fiction films KW - Motion pictures N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 1987 ; Digitally remastered and English version released in 2001; Based on the graphic novel by åOtomo Katsuhiro, first published by "Young Magazine," Kodansha Ltd; Special features: capsule option (English translation of graffiti) ; Akira production report ; interview with Katsuhiro Otomo ; stills of production materials and Akira glossary ; interviews with restoration staff ; original teasers and trailers; Disc 1. Akira -- Disc 2. Bonus materials; Music, Yamashiro Shåoji ; [Digitally remastered and English version. 2001] Producers, Tsukamoto Hiroe, Maseba Yutaka, Kanesaku Haruo ; director, Kevin Seymour ; screenplay & supervision, Kevin Seymour, Heidi Wilbur; Iwata Mitsuo, Sasaki Nozomu, Koyama Mami; [English voiceover] Johnny Yong Bosch, Joshua Seth, Wendee Lee; MPAA rating: R N2 - 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 ER -