Akira
1988
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
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Fantastic film. Deserves every bit of praise it still gets for telling the nuanced story of independence, dependence, love, friendship, and identity in a dystopian world.
Shockingly relevant and the hardest part to believe is when the Supreme Council is arguing that money should have been spent on welfare instead of the military. A lot of the visuals of the fully marshaled government forces using violence against protestors could still be ripped from the news.