35 YEARS FROM THE FIRST RELEASE
THE LARGEST JAPANESE ANIMATED FILM IS BACK IN THE CENTERS
NEVER MADE
AKIRA 35th
THE SPECIAL EVENT AT THE CINEMA
Two days to celebrate the greatest Japanese animated film:
on March 14th in the original language (with Italian subtitles) and on March 15th dubbed in Italian (dubbing faithful to the original), in the new 4k format!
Back to the cinema, 35 years after its first release in theaters, AKIRA di Katsuhiro Otomo, the film which grossed over 50 million euros between theatrical reruns and home-video sales, conquering the Japanese public and revolutionizing the perception of anime throughout the Western world.
Unanimously considered a masterpiece and posted by Empire Magazine among the 100 best foreign language films in the history of cinema, AKIRA is directed by one of the undisputed masters of Japanese animation and comics. Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s numerous collaborations and productions include, among others, “Steamboy”, with which he participated out of competition at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, and the screenplay for the film “Metropolis” by Rintaro (taken from the manga by Osamu Tezuka).
The appointment for Italian fans is set for March 14 (screenings in the original language with Italian subtitles) and March 15 (screenings in the Italian dubbed version)when the Season of Anime at the Cinema, an exclusive project by Digital Nexus distributed in collaboration with Dynit, will bring to theaters AKIRA in 4K format and for the first time also in the original language (cinema list coming soon on nexodigital.it). In 2013 the celebrations of Akira’s 25th anniversary, again organized by Nexo Digital and Dynit, had gathered over 20,000 spectators in a single day, with widespread sold outs in all the Italian cinemas that had programmed the film.
Released in theaters for the first time in 1988 and inspired by the manga now in its 100th reprint of its first volume, Akira is set in 2019, in an era in which the great metropolises have been wiped out after the Third World War. Tokyo is the scene of clashes between biker gangs, among which the gang of young Kaneda and Tetsuo stands out. Meanwhile, the secret police are trying to put a stop to the threat in order to continue the development of the highly secret Akira project…
The Season of Anime at the Cinema is an exclusive project by Nexo Digital distributed in collaboration with Dynit and with the support of the media partners MYmovies.it, Lucca Comics & Games and VVVVID.