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Released
1988 · FILM

Akira

A reckless biker leader must rescue his telekinetic friend from a militarized lab before the unleashed power ignites a war‑torn Neo‑Tokyo into total chaos.

“Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.”

Directed by
Katsuhiro Otomo, Hiroyuki Ishido
Written by
Katsuhiro Otomo, Izo Hashimoto
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
124 min
Language
JA
ActionAnimationDrama
Streaming on
  • Crunchyroll

Synopsis

A secret military project threatens Neo-Tokyo when it transforms a member of a biker gang into a violent psychic psychopath, a threat that only two teenagers and a team of psychics can confront.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 424+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Takeshi SeyamaShot by Katsuji MisawaScored by Shoji YamashiroDesigned by Kazuo Ebisawa

Box Office

1988 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$49.0M

Budget$5.7M
Worldwide gross$49.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

20011 theaters
$56K($105K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Akirade
  • Akiraen

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