This is something that the original 1988 movie struggled with and Otomo himself found frustrating. Talking of the 1988 anime movie, it also looks like we are getting an all-new 4K remaster next ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Katsuhiro Otomo ( born April 14, 1954) is a Japanese comic book creator, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira ...

Finishing up the three segments was Otomo’s own film, Cannon Fodder and while it is arguably the strangest of the three it was also the most important in some ways. With a story built around a ...

Katsuhiro Otomo’s anime classic towers over any other vision of a dystopian future to have emerged from Asia, or anywhere ...

Leading manga artist and anime director Katsuhiro Otomo said he is working on "Orbital Era," his third feature film, as well as a long-awaited new "Akira" anime. His second film was "Steamboy ...

The wildly kinetic movie and its highly detailed world set a new standard for anime—we’re still living in the animated world that writer/director Katsuhiro Otomo and company gave birth to with ...

Anime has embraced this genre, producing films with rich narratives and striking visuals. Here are five essential cyberpunk ...

Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his own manga series, Akira takes place in a dystopian Neo-Tokyo in 2019, where young teens Kaneda (Mitsuo Iwata) and his friend Tetsuo (Nozomu Sasaki ...

A singular blend of World War II aviation, 1980s streetwear, and speculative cyberpunk aesthetics, Shotaro Kaneda alone ...

“I just don’t think we’ll ever get something that game-changing in animation again,” says Louis of Katsuhiro Otomo’s cyberpunk classic. Susan Young’s 1985 short is set during London ...

Based on the classic comic by legendary illustrator Osamu Tezuka, Metropolis has been brought to the screen by two of the most respected figures in Japanese animation today (Katsuhiro Otomo and ...

Satoshi Kon may have directed only four feature films, but his influence on other filmmakers, among them Darren Aronofsky, is ...