Akira was a box office bomb at its original 1988 Japanese premiere.
Really? News to me, and contradictory to everything I’ve ever read. If you could please give me a link for citation, or recommend some literature (or recount your time in Japan circa 1988), I would be grateful. I find it personally gratifying to periodically update my cinematic knowledge (here would be great, but if need be PM would work too since I am admittedly getting way off topic).
Anyway, No. 4 on an aggregate rating? To quote Tenchi’s old man, “Well done, TENCHIIII!!”
