FANMADE: Live Action Akira Short

Thanks Ror!
That was supposed to be Kaneda's Friend in the beginning.
The whole Premise of the movie takes place 10 years after the events of Tetsuo's Death. There are only 2 members of Kaneda's Crew left including Kaneda. This is more of a Revenge plot line shown in less than 5 minutes lol. Thanks for watching!

Thats was pretty good man, I like how you actually kept the themes from the anime and the style.

Hell Yea! Awesome vid man.

I gotta agree with RorMachine.

Looks alright. But as soon as the rap music started it was fail. rap in movies dont mix... its cheesy. rap sux

Very nice video.

awesome video, very impressive man :)

That was pretty well done. Can't really see why people are being negative about this. I thought it captured the style and atmosfear gracefully, seing as did not shot this in a futuristic city and didn't use the bike.

Nice Job man...

Wow, whats with all the negativity? Dude obviously put alot of time and effort into this and it shows. What the hell do you want from the man?

I think most negative people on here were just expecting some dialog. And if no dialog, maybe a naration or something(i don't know if there was a naration since i'm at work and can't hear shit). This was nicely shot but... it shouldn't need an explanation.

Thanks everyone for watching. We appreciate the positive feed backs as well as the well written Negative ones. This was really just a two man team filming this and most money we spent were the 2 Shots of Crown Royal Kaneda drank at the bar. If you are wondering why there was no Dialog and why we didn't show Kaneda's face was because everyone knows what Kaneda looks like and will always have their interpretations to always be that same face. As for the plot Synopsis,
“It is 10 years after the Death of Tetsuo… There are only two gang members left in Kaneda’s crew including himself. Kaneda becomes the very last when his friend gets murdered by the Clown in the short’s beginning, this prompts Kaneda to seek revenge.”

As for the Title of the Short, it is called "Akira: The Kaneda Short". The reason why we still use Akira as part of the Title is because fans like us know it would be attached to the Anime/Manga and putting Kaneda's name in it clearly shows that it is about Kaneda.

As for the Music, I know not all of you like "Rap" or are only into "Rock" music, but if you think of it from a Japanese stand point, that culture listens to a wide variaty of music and most of it is not really "American" Music. You have to remember, Akira is in Neo Tokyo. The "Rap" Song used is by a Japanese Rapper. The song is called “Lost Heaven” which the Artist is talking about the friend he losts. We wanted to use this Song for that same reason.

We are not a big Hollywood Production team, and wouldn't you rather see a Kaneda ride a motorcycle rather than him being positioned in a distance to make the Todd McFarlene Toy look bigger but not ride able? the Original Anime clearly has a lot of memorable scenes with the bikes. Well anyways, It is great to hear all your feed backs. we will consider everything said for or next project. Thank You. :)

Technically and cinematically very nice.

Hey guys, Mark T. here...the director/editor/digital effects guy that worked on this. After reading all the comments all I have to say is that it's great if you like it but if you hate it that's okay too...I'm just happy you all are watching it. I'm going to write a little bit about the motivations behind the decisions made making this short, or trailer, or tribute video (what have you).

This idea I had to make an Akira video was very simple, and like some of the comments state, without depth. It was very much an excercise for me technically to see what I could pull off visually in relation to the feel of the anime.

The motivations behind using Japanese rap music as well as the original was an attempt to blend Eastern and Western influences in the film...hence...a japanese rapper (on a side note in the song he is rapping about a lost friend which fits appropriately)..somewhat like a bridge. Because I was born in the U.S. and have never been to Japan, I wanted to still acknowledge that this was made domestically and not foreign. Also the reason I elected to not use any dialog was because I personally didn't want to hear people speak English and I didn't know anyone available at the time that spoke fluent Japanese.

The above post of the original AKIRA live action trailer was a partial inspiration for this video. I saw what they did and still think it is very resourceful for what they pulled off. For me, it didn't have enough bike riding/fighting and cityscapes so I thought I could round out some of the other "trailers" with these scenes.

Anyways, I'm glad for all the input...it's great to know immediate audience reaction, negative or positive.

Not bad, but i have to say keneda would never ride a 600. He prided himself on the fact that he had the best bike. If you had to do a bike for him it would have been a busha or at least an r1 or gsxr1000. 600 is for girls. lol