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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: AKIRA review
Description: In which the Mister joins me in reviewing AKIRA (1988), currently available on Funimation, Hulu and to buy/rent on Amazon.  From the manga and directed by Katsuhiro Ôtomo, with a screenplay credit to Katsuhiro Ôtomo and Izô Hashimoto, the film is set in Neo Tokyo 2019, 31 years after WWIII. Kaneda (Mitsuo Iwata) and Tetsuo (Nozomu Sasaki) are longtime friends who now are part of a biker gang that inhabits this new world. An accident finds Tetsuo taken to a secret government facility where Tetsuo's new developing powers seem to be going out of control and shades of history repeating itself soon s...