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What is Cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.

Cyberpunk characteristics include:

Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.

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[Full Movie] AKIRA (1988) - see post text for several links (www.youtube.com)

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Every once in a while someone uploads another copy of Akira to youtube. The latest one, from last week, looks good (Japanese audio with optional subtitles) but it's missing the last 30 seconds -- which is kind of missing the whole point of the movie. But this led me to check how many Akira uploads I could easily find from previous posts here and on [email protected]

Japanese audio, hardcoded subtitles 1080p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo8zOYkc-GI
Japanese audio, optional subtitles missing last 30 seconds, subtitles are a little weird 1080p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqvkeskcy9g
English dub with optional (ASR generated?) subtitles 2160p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qujRfw4usC8
English dub 1080p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSBpzX8_hfo
English dub 720p https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmjsXZjUqyM

Personally I think the first is the best. Weirdly, they all seem to be blocked in Germany and Austria. However, every previous upload I checked was still there. Not sure what that says, but as you probably know, it's an excellent film.

Akira (Japanese: アキラ) is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film[4] directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga Akira. Set in a dystopian 2019, it tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda, the leader of a biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires incredible telekinetic abilities after a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex amid chaos and rebellion in the sprawling futuristic metropolis of Neo-Tokyo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(1988_film)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I'd go one step further and say Akira's one of the few movies worth buying on physical media.