Akira, God's Wrath: The Movie That Changed Anime Forever
Leonardo DiCaprio and Taika Waititi are going to shoot a fiction film "Akira" based on the manga of the same name. Here's how her first film adaptation, released in 1988, changed the world of Japanese animation forever and influenced Western cinematography. July 16, 1988. An explosion occurred in Tokyo, which almost completely destroyed the city and unleashed the Third World War. From this begins the “Akira” Katsuhiro Otomo... The main plot of the film takes place 31 years after the disaster. In 2019, the metropolis - now called Neo Tokyo - is still standing. The neon ruins are inhabited by unemployed marginalized people, religious fanatics and teenage biker gangs. While the former arrange terrorist attacks and receive batons from the police, the latter are driven among the skyscrapers on futuristic motorcycles and beat each other's muzzles. One of the bikers, Tetsuo, during another outing, knocks down a strange child with blue-green skin. Both boys are taken awa...