How AKIRA won the West

from The Pod Charles Cinecast · host The Prince Charles Cinema

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, presented by the Prince Charles Cinema, our hosts Jonathan Foster & Fil Freitas travel to see why Neo-Tokyo 2019 is about to explode! It's Katsuhiro Ôtomo's 1988 animated cyberpunk masterpiece AKIRA! It's one of the greatest films of all-time and it opened the floodgates to Japanese Anime in the West. Hear the story of how it went from the epic manga to the big screen!

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