Films like Akira.
Akira (1988) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme animation / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a pitch-dark outlook.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the world-sized stakes and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
These are Akira’s neighbours — where are yours?
Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.
Find my film for tonight — 60 sec →