Behind The Scenes of Akira Movie.

Go behind the scenes and learn what went on during the making of the 1988 Action / Adventure movie starring Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama et al.

Contributed by: Dan Price

The original comic consisted of over 2000 pages of artwork. And the film itself used over 450,000 cells in the animation, adopting a brand new method where doudle the normal amount of cells are used, giving the amazing crisp look to it.

In 1987, Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo began work on the animated feature, it was released theatrically in Japan in July 1988 and in the United States in December 1989 where it ranked in the top 60 for 20 weeks on Variety's weekly theatrical box office sales report.

Akira was one of the first Japanese anime films to use "pre-scoring": a technique where the character's voices are recorded before they are animated. Often used here in the U.S.A. especially at Disney, it was not used in Japan due to it being more expensive than animating then recording.

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The re-released film in 2001, was remastered with a new dub and soundtrack, the project reportedly cost over US$1 million to do. It is worth noting the massive improvement in translation quality between the original dubbed release and the 2001 re-release. The re-release addresses a lot of translation problems present in the original and is much more faithful to the japanese dialogue.

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Deleted Scenes

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Alternate Versions

Sometimes, there will be several versions of a movie floating about on cable, tv or video etc. Other times, a Director may release a special cut of the movie.

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The movie version of Akria is (unsurprisingly) much shorter and changed around somewhat from the manga (print) version. Roughly speaking only the first half of the manga is covered in the film. The movie does incorporate the most important themes from the later part of the manga, accounting for much of what was changed around. The DVD release of Akira has a revamped translation that at least some people feel makes the film's plot and dialogue easier to grasp.

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