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  1. Akira was released in Japan on July 16, 1988, by Toho; it was released the following year in the United States by Streamline Pictures. It garnered an international cult following after various theatrical and VHS releases, eventually earning over $80 million worldwide in home video sales.

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    Akira (1988) A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends...

  3. Aug 14, 2015 · High Cost, High Reward. Akira cost a total of $10 million to make back in 1987, which stood as the record for the most expensive anime film for quite some time. But the investment was well...

  4. Feb 20, 2024 · When Akira was released in 1988 after a long and expensive production that saw the budget balloon from $5.5 million to $9 million (spawning an urban legend that it was the most...

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  5. Akira's budget was 1.1 billion yen in 1988. Roughly $10.73 million. Adjusted for inflation in 2014, that would be approximately $21.6 million.

  6. Oct 17, 2020 · Akira was already one of the most expansive animated movies of the time, with the film running up a budget of over 10 million dollars when the film was initially made in the late 1980s. However, the cost of the film would still go up thirteen years after its initial release.

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  8. Jun 21, 2011 · In 1988, Katsuhiro Ôtomo turned his bestselling manga into a $10 million feature-length cartoon. The result, Akira, is quite simply one of the greatest animated movies ever made.

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