Akira

I watched the animated movie Akira for the first time around in 2005 on DVD. The movie was quite shocking. I am relaxing and doing something easy every time I watch a movie in my room, however, at that time I was deeply absorbed from the middle to the end. Then after watching it, I did it again twice on the same day. The film is filled with mysterious energy and power. I watched it again more than a couple of times after that day on DVD. I also bought the graphic novel with the same title in six volumes and read it many times. The story comic has different elements, so it is more intriguing. I hope that another Akira will be filmed based on the manga.

The animation film describes the incomplete both younger and older people at the mercy of a gigantic power that each human being could possess and a boy has obtained by chance.

I have little strength and do not like even to argue but as a man I understand the feelings of the main character Tetsuo who awakened and intoxicated with his own incredible power. Thugs with terrible strength and violent nature might stride in back streets and run wild with the feelings of a Tetsuo. Education is essential. Kaneda had been a close friend of and like a big brother of Tetuso's but he could not control Tetsuo who got awake, impudent and arrogant. All the same, Kanada confronted the arrogant boy. Friendship is beautiful in youth without reason.

I wonder how I would become if I got something like a supernatural power. I am already an old man, so I would not get too excited and parade it, unlike Tetsuo. I would stealthily do wrong, though. I would not stand up for something like world peace because I would end up being manipulated by cunning plotters after all if I did. I am quite ashamed that I am a coward like that.  

In August 2018, I watched the movie at a theater for the first time. It was amazing on a big screen, though the quality of the pictures was not so good at the theater, Meguro Cinema.

In June 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic has gradually been settled in Japan, so I could watch the film at United Cinemas Terrace Mall Matsudo. The pictures were amazing because they were on IMAX. That was a fantastic experience.