Akira (1988)

Movies like Akira

24 films close to Akira (1988) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.

dystopia, adult animation, cyberpunk · Action, Science Fiction, Animation · with Tessyo Genda · Kodansha

adult animation, cyberpunk, based on manga · Action, Science Fiction, Animation · with Mami Koyama · MBS

adult animation, based on manga, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation · TOHO

adult animation, cyberpunk, based on manga · Action, Science Fiction, Animation

dystopia, cyberpunk, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation · with Mami Koyama

adult animation, cyberpunk, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation · with Tessyo Genda

Dune
Dune
1984

atomic bomb, army, mutation · Action, Science Fiction

cyberpunk, based on manga, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation

dystopia, cyberpunk, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation · with Tessyo Genda

cyberpunk, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation · Kodansha

adult animation, cyberpunk, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation · TOHO

Also Katsuhiro Otomo · based on manga, anime · Science Fiction, Animation · Kodansha

dystopia, adult animation, cyberpunk · Science Fiction, Animation

BLAME!
BLAME!
2017

adult animation, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation

dystopia, cyberpunk, saving the world · Action, Science Fiction

cyberpunk, based on manga, anime · Science Fiction, Animation · Kodansha

adult animation, based on manga, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation

dystopia, cyberpunk, based on manga · Action, Science Fiction

megacity, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation

adult animation, cyberpunk, anime · Science Fiction, Animation

dystopia, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation

adult animation, anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation

experiment, dystopia, cyberpunk · Action, Science Fiction

anime · Action, Science Fiction, Animation · TOHO

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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.