"AKIRA" decided to be broadcast on terrestrial television for the first time in nine years

A television broadcast of "AKIRA" which is the representative work of director Otomo Katsuhiro was decided. This is the omnibus movie by Director Otomo and othersSHORT PEACE"Will be held in advance of being published on 20th July, and it will be the first time in nine years to be broadcast on terrestrial wave.

Akira
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Tokyo was destroyed by a new bomb and Japan was created as a new capital on Tokyo Bay in 2019 in Japan. Kaneda, who are leaders of the self-proclaimed "good health bad boy" group, fought a battle with a motorcycle runaway, but one of his colleagues, Tetsuo encountered a boy in the experiment, Kaneda's eyes I was taken away to the military laboratory in front. Tetsuo takes a human experiment at a laboratory and wakes up to a new strength, the highest confidentiality that it sleeps deep under the ground to see what it is, approaches to Akira ... ... ... ... It is a synopsis of "AKIRA" .

The trailer full version at the theatrical release is as follows.

Akira (Akira) Japanese Theatrical Trailer 1 - YouTube


Also, the HD version trailer recorded when the Blu-ray version comes out is as follows and you can see that the picture quality is rising considerably.

Akira Trailer blu ray original - YouTube


Mr. Katsuhiro Otomo wrote the manga serialized in the weekly Young Magazine from 1982 as the original, and when the production of the movie started, up to 4 volumes of comics have been published, 1990 by the movie release in 1988 It was completed in 6 volumes. Mr. Otomo is in charge of director and character design in the movie, and script (written jointly with Mr. Hashimoto Zoro).

Broadcasting is from TOKYO MX on Sunday, July 14 (Sunday) from 26:30, from TV on Osaka on July 18 (Thursday) at 25: 5.

◆ Staff
Original · Director: Katsuhiro Otomo (Kodansha · Series of Young Magazines)
Production: Akira Production Committee
Screenplay: Katsuhiro Otomo, Takeshi Hashimoto
Composition / command: Shoji Yamashiro
Character design: Katsuhiro Otomo
Drawing director: Takashi Nakamura
Screening director supplement: Koji Morimoto
Art: Teruharu Mizutani
Music: Entertainment Yamashiro Group (Victor)
Acoustics: Mihada Ogawa
Recording: Tetsuo Segawa
Photography: Katsuharu Misawa
Edit: Takeshi Seyama
Animation production: Tokyo movie new company (present: Tomus · entertainment)

◆ Cast
Kaneda: Mitsuo Iwata
Tetsuo: Nozomu Sasaki
Kay: Mami Oyama
Colonel: Taro Ishida
Dragon: Teruaki Genda
Doctor: Mizuho Suzuki
Takashi (No. 26): Nakamura Tatsuhiko
Kiyoko (No. 25): Fukue Ito
Masaru (No. 27): Kazuhiro Shindo

© 1988 Mushroom / Akira Production Committee