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2 unusual facts about Akira


Hiroshi Hirata

He's also known for his use of elaborate calligraphy for dialogue (he did the kanji for Akira), which has been preserved (though still translated) in the American editions of his work.

Sav! The World Productions

STW announced that it put together a team of European and Japanese artists to bring the project to life, including animation master Toshiyuki Inoue (Akira; Blood: The Last Vampire).


Akira Machida

Akira Machida (町田 顯 Machida Akira, born October 16, 1936) was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan from 2002 to 2006.

Akira Murata

Akira Murata (村田昭 Murata Showa) (b. March 25, 1921 in Higashiyama, Kyoto - February 3, 2006) is the founder of Murata Manufacturing.

Akira Sakuma

Akira Sakuma (さくま あきら; born on July 29, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer best known as the creator of the Momotaro Dentetsu series.

Anaheim University

The University is made up of three graduate schools: the Graduate School of Education, the Akio Morita School of Business (named after Sony founder Akio Morita), and the Akira Kurosawa School of Film (named after Akira Kurosawa).

AnimagiC

Among the most renowned guests was Tadashi Ozawa (free animator for Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, The Castle in the Sky, Akira und Record of Lodoss War) who from 2000 to 2006 held drawing workshops for selected visitors.

AnimeTrax

AnimeTrax's catalog includes soundtracks from Slayers, Martian Successor Nadesico, Lost Universe, Samurai X (Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen), Boogiepop Phantom, Macross II, Macross Plus, Akira and The Irresponsible Captain Tylor.

Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica

The Gust sound team of Akira Tsuchiya, Ken Nakagawa and Daisuke Achiwa returned from the first game to compose the music for this game, as did Haruka Shimotsuki, Takashige Inagaki and Akiko Shikata for the composition of several of the songs and Hymns.

Arika

The name of the company itself is the reverse of the name of the company's founder, Akira Nishitani (Nin Nin), who (along with Akiman) created Street Fighter II.

AV Open

3rd Place: Moodyz - Dream School 11 (ドリーム学園11) with Nayuka Mine, ICHIKA, Chihiro Hara, Erina Kurosawa, Akira Shiratori, Rico, Nami Kimura, Natsuki Ijima & Miina Minamoto

Daisuke Katō

His son, Haruyuki Katō, married Kazuko Kurosawa, the costume designer and daughter of Akira Kurosawa.

Emayatzy Corinealdi

She has appeared in television series' such as Cold Case,Young and the Restless, Katrina and Romantically Challenged, as well as several acclaimed short films including the DGA Student Filmmaker Award winning Akira's Hip Hop Shop (2007).

Family Complex

Akira and his entire family also appear in the series Princess Princess by the same creator of Family Complex.

In Princess Princess, when Kouno and Shihoudani first meet her, they think she is Akira's sister and wonder if she is older or younger than he is.

Fumio Hayasaka

Printed in Perspectives on Akira Kurosawa, edited by James Goodwin, New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1994 James Goodwin.

Garrick Hagon

As a voice actor he has been heard in many films and TV series including the UK dub of Star Fleet/X-Bomber (as Capt. Carter), the Manga titles, The Secret of Mamo and Goodbye Lady Liberty and Akira Kurosawa’s Ran.

Hanzawa Naoki

Teruyuki Kagawa as Akira Ohwada, the director of Tokyo Central Bank.

Hiroki Azuma

Akira Asada stated that it is one the best books written in the 90s; however, Hiroo Yamagata pointed out that the book is based on the misunderstanding of Godel's incompleteness theorem.

Invasion of Astro-Monster

The English-language version was prepared by UPA at Glen Glenn Sound in Hollywood, and Marvin Miller provided the English voice for Akira Takarada as Astronaut Fuji.

Japanese martial arts

Kano devised a powerful system of new techniques and training methods, which famously culminated on June 11, 1886, in a tournament that would later be dramatized by celebrated Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (黒沢 明 Kurosawa Akira, 1910–1998), in the film "Sanshiro Sugata" (1943).

JCPM Yakiimo Station

It was at the JCPM Yakiimo Station that on November 23, 1990, Japanese astronomers Akira Natori and Takeshi Urata discovered the asteroid 6042 Cheshirecat.

Man of Many Faces

As demonstrated by a conversation between Nokoru and Suō which also takes place in CLAMP School Detectives, while in Duklyon Akira and Utako appear at their age as they do in Man of Many Faces.

Mori Trust

Following his death in 1993, his two sons Minoru Mori and Akira Mori disagreed as to how to continue the business, with Minoru wishing to continue the company's focus on existing properties and new large-scale urban projects, and Akira wishing to expand the company's portfolio into more small-scale office and leisure properties.

Nissho Inoue

Inoue was born Inoue Shirō (later adopting the name Akira and then Nisshō, lit. “Called by the Sun”) in Kawaba, Gunma Prefecture, in 1887, the son of a rural doctor.

Not Yet

Madadayo (English:Not Yet), a 1993 Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa

Patlabor

On September 25, 2013, it was announced that Japanese actors Erina Mano will star as pilot Akira Izumino, Seiji Fukushi as Yūma Shiobara, Rina Oota as Ekaterina Krachevna Kankaeva ("Kasha"), Shigeru Chiba reprising his anime role as chief Shigeo Shiba and Toshio Kakei as Captain Keiji Gotōda.

Psychotronic Video

The book was written by Weldon with editorial assistance from Charles Beesley, Fangorias Bob Martin, and Akira Fitton.

Redbeard

Red Beard, a 1965 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa

Ribosome Recycling Factor

The ribosome recycling factor was discovered in the early 1970s by the work of Akira Kaji and Akikazu Hiroshima at the University of Pennsylvania.

Rin Asuka

She also played Akira Karasaki for several episodes of K-tai Investigator 7.

Sasagawa

Ryohei Sasagawa, fictional character in the anime and manga series Reborn! by Akira Amano

The Humble Guys

-- This is a non-controversial claim for which a self published source is acceptable --> Writer and weblogger Justin Hall would have his first article published in the Humble Review; a film review of Akira by "Fusty".

The Icarus Factor

In another Japanese reference, the banners around the arena are written in Japanese hiragana and spell out Ataru, Lum, urusai yatsura (a misspelled reference to Urusei Yatsura), Kei, Yuri, Akira and Tonari no Totoro.

Three Alls Policy

His works and those of Akira Fujiwara about the details of the operation were commented by Herbert P. Bix in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, who claims that the Sankō Sakusen far surpassed the Rape of Nanking not only in terms of numbers, but in brutality as well.

Toonattik

Commander Action, a Spanish veteran of the skies (David Kangas - also the Producer and Director) led the rest of this team made up of Gribulous Bertnog Pimplewix, an alien (Mike Rance), Boogaloo, a protocol droid and library management system (Simon Fielding) and Akira Neo 'Rocket Girl', the ships engineer (Anna Singleton) in their mission to 'Save the world, one cartoon at a time' from the evil Dr. Poopanski - Poopants (Jimmy Hunt).

Viper V16

Akira defeats the guard and finds Seed, who is having intercourse with Saki.


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