Akira: Boom Goes Tokyo!

Another Big-Screen Far distant future: 2019!

Boom goes Tokyo: check.

Randy Newman? nope.

Send in the clowns: check.

IT? nope.

Weird kids standing around staring: check.

Village of the Damned? nope.

Motorcycle Gangs: check.

Brando and Marvin? nope.

It's: 

Akira!

My opinion of this flick gets higher every time I see it. I usually don't subscribe to the theory that a movie can be too weird, but Akira comes oh so close. I think it may have been the first of the great anime to escape Japan. If you ever get a chance to see it on the big screen...

Check it out.