AKIRA
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF MANGA ENTERTAINMENT
12 August 2016, London, England – Manga Entertainment is excited to announce that they will be screening the cult anime classic Akira across the UK to celebrate their twenty-fifth birthday this year!
The showings will take place on the 21st September, and will play on over 70 screens – making this the widest UK theatrical release of the film since its original run!
“Iconic and game-changing, Akira is the definitive anime classic which even after decades since its initial release still holds up as one of the most thrilling and visceral films you will ever see! In celebration of Manga’s 25th anniversary we will be re-releasing Akira in cinemas this September on over 70 screens across the UK. Not only that, in November we will be releasing a collector’s edition triple play – DVD, Blu-ray and digital copy housed in a rigid box, containing both English dubs as well as brand new artwork. This is an absolute must for any Akira fan!” – Andrew Hewson, Marketing Manager
See below for the full list of participating screens – find show times and book tickets here!
Aberdeen Union Square Cineworld
Gateshead Vue
Manchester Showcase
Basingstoke Festival Place Vue
Glasgow East (Out of Town) Showcase
Manchester Red Vue
Bath PictureHouse
Glasgow Renfrew Street (Central) Cineworld
Milton Keynes Cineworld
Belfast Odyssey Independent
Hull Vue
Northampton Vue
Birmingham Broad Street Cineworld
Inverness Vue
Norwich PictureHouse
Birmingham Electric Independent
Lancaster Dukes Independent
Norwich Vue
Birmingham, Star City Vue
Leeds Showcase CDL
Nottingham Showcase CDL
Bluewater Showcase CDL
Leeds Hyde Park Independent
Oxford PictureHouse
Brighton Komedia PictureHouse
Leicester Showcase CDL
Oxford Vue
Bristol Showcase
Liverpool Showcase
Paisley Showcase
Bristol Showcase CDL
Liverpool, FACT PictureHouse
Peterborough Showcase
Cambridge PictureHouse
London Central, Central PictureHouse
Plymouth Vue
Cambridge Vue
London Central, Prince Charles Independent
Portsmouth Vue
Cardiff Showcase
London East, Hackney PictureHouse
Portsmouth No. 6 Independent
Cheshire Oaks Vue
London East, Newham Showcase
Reading Showcase CDL
Coventry Showcase
London East, Stratford East PictureHouse
Sheffield Cineworld
Crawley Cineworld
London East, West India Quay Cineworld
Sheffield Vue
Derby Showcase CDL
London East, Westfield Stratford Vue
Southampton PictureHouse
Dublin Cineworld
London North, Crouch End PictureHouse
Stirling Vue
Dudley Showcase
London North, Finchley Road Vue
Swansea Vue
Dundee DCA Independent
London North, Islington Vue
Teeside Showcase
Edinburgh Cineworld
London North, Wood Green Vue
Walsall Showcase
Edinburgh Cameo PictureHouse
London South, Croydon Grants Vue
Watford Vue
Enfield Cineworld
London South, Ritzy PictureHouse
York PictureHouse
Exeter PictureHouse
London South, Wandsworth Cineworld
York Vue
Exeter Vue
London West, Westfield Vue
“AKIRA is the definitive anime classic.” – Empire
Katsuhiro Otomo’s landmark cyberpunk classic obliterated the boundaries of Japanese animation and forced the world to look into the future. Akira’s arrival shattered traditional thinking, creating space for movies like The Matrix to be dreamed into brutal reality. Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is being rebuilt post World War III when two high school drop outs, Kaneda and Tetsuo stumble across a secret government project to develop a new weapon – telekinetic humans. After Tetsuo is captured by the military and experimented on, he gains psychic abilities and learns about the existence of the project’s most powerful subject, Akira. Both dangerous and destructive, Kaneda must take it upon himself to stop both Tetsuo and Akira before things get out of control and the city is destroyed once again.
Akira returns to the big screen to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Manga Entertainment.
