A Surfeit of Apocalypse

Kaneda riding his red motorbike through an explosion in Akira (1988)

What’s the most apocalypse you can fit in one movie? Friday’s screening of Akira in 4K at the BFI IMAX was a writhing mess of spiritual-psychological-flesh apocalypses inside a ‘regular’ nuclear one. When it was released in 1988 it was sci-fi, but in 2026 it hit like a current affairs documentary.