Akira is an anime film that premiered in summer 1988, produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha.

About the production: the story comes from a manga, the film runs about 125 minutes and its current status is "finished".

Its main genres are action, adventure, horror, psychological, sci-fi and supernatural, with themes such as Cyberpunk, Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian and Urban.

On AniList, Akira has an average score of 79%, a very good score, and appears on 235,854 users' lists.

It's the year 2019, thirty-one years have passed since the start of World War III. A top-secret child with amazing powers of the mind breaks free from custody and accidentally gets a motorcycle gang involved in the project. This incident triggers psychic powers within one of the gang members, Tetsuo, and he is taken by the army to be experimented on. His mind has been altered and is now on the path of war, seeking revenge on the society that once called him weak. (Source: FUNimation)

Official synopsis from AniList.