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Synopsis
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.
Cinematic DNA
When we first started talking to the studio about doing this, we said, 'We want to do a movie that looks like what you might find in an anime movie.' And we showed them Akira and Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll and said, 'We want to make something like that.'
I knew I wanted to do something that felt like a movie that could exist in the world of anime, the tone and the action and the character stuff. When I was starting out, I watched a lot of anime, particularly Otomo's 'Akira' and 'Memories.'
— Rian Johnson · IndieWire
This Film Influenced
→ The Matrix (1999)
→ Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
→ Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Films with Similar Themes
psychic powers · military corruption · urban decay · teenage rebellion · loss of control
