MetaFilter posts tagged with Akira

The Mine Whisperer.

lazaruslong — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:33:50 -0800

As a child soldier in Cambodia's notorious Khmer Rouge army Aki Ra laid many landmines. He now clears these deadly bombs with a stick and a pocketknife, more than 10,000 to date. It is very dangerous. No one pays him to do it. Aki is the real deal.

Akira Kurosawa

vronsky — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:25:55 -0800

Kuro sawa: The Last Empe ror documentary by Alex Cox (Repo Man). Featuring Francis Coppola, John Woo, Bernardo Bertolucci, Paul Verhoeven, Arturo Ripstein, Andrei Konchalovsky, Mike Hodges, and Kasuko Kurosawa. 50mins.

Akira on blu-ray

slimepuppy — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:07:00 -0800

20 years after its cinematic debut, Akira is being released on bluray. Now would probably be a good time to do the following: Visit the official site (in Japanese). Watch the documentary (Part 1 of 5, youtube, English dub, Spanish subs) and learn, among other things, about the record-breaking colour palette that was created for the film and the intricate storyboarding process that Katsuhiro Otomo went through for the production. Read the manga (and then buy it!). Listen to the soundtrack by Geinoh Yamashirogumi (in Japanese). (buy it too!) Visit the fan sites. (previously on metafilter.) Fear the soon-to-be-release live action remake. Apologies for the copyright infringements. Excise as felt necessary.

Kanye Jocks Daft Punk Jocks Edwin Birdsong

Rubbstone — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:12:15 -0800

New Kwest combining Daft Punk and Akira. Can you hear the Birdsong? (via Digg)

Post Apocalyptic Tokyo in Lithograph

jonson — Thu, 10 May 2007 13:03:34 -0800

Hisaharu Motoda’s “Neo-Ruins” series of lithographs depict the cityscape of a post-apocalyptic Tokyo, where familiar streets lie deserted, the buildings are crumbling and weeds grow from the broken pavement. More here, here & here.

I am Tetsuo

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:49:41 -0800

Akira2019: a fan-site devoted to the classic Japanese manga and anime, offering up production cels, background info on the ground-breaking digital coloring technique used in the Epic translation, images, and film music.

(some) books are for girls

grobstein — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:28:56 -0800

Gender differences in literary taste - The Guardian (inter alia) has been reporting two English professors' studies of reading habits and feelings about books by gender. Others (newest to oldest): most revelatory books by reader gender (for men), (for women), author gender by reader gender. The methodology may not be unassailable but the findings are interesting and plausible. [viaduct vianochicken]
Sidenote: I did a little research following a comment on MR and reached a non-obvious conclusion: wo men hate Akira Kurosawa (check out those charts; for comparison). Theories welcome.

Steamboy

freakystyley — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 12:50:22 -0800

Steamboy is a steam punk anime adventure by Katsuhiro Otomo (of Akira fame). Here's the synopsis. Here's the trailer. Looks hella-impressive. Kinda makes my pants shrink. Anybody else know more info on this?

ritualdevice — Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:07:02 -0800

Tetsuo! Kaneda! Akira on DVD!