How AKIRA won the West

An episode of the The Pod Charles Cinecast podcast, hosted by The Prince Charles Cinema, titled "How AKIRA won the West" was published on October 19, 2020 and runs 104 minutes.

October 19, 2020 ·104m · The Pod Charles Cinecast

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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!

Episode Description

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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