Akira (1988), poster, Japanese

Unframed: 40 x 29 in. (102 x 74 cm)

This poster was produced in two different sizes: a small piece and this larger format poster, which is far rarer.

This Japanese animated cyberpunk film was directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name. The film is set in a dystopian 2019. After the destruction of Tokyo in 1988, Neo-Tokyo is established as a futuristic metropolis. The city is cursed by corruption, anti-government protests and terrorism. A military complex is threatened by a psychic psychopath, who acquired amazing telekinetic powers after a motorbike accident, and which he uses for malicious purposes. His powers are the same as Akira, the instrument that originally destroyed Tokyo. Will history repeat itself?