"Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain..."

"Eitaro Ozawa — Minister of Finance Kanzaki"

"Shin Takuma — Hiroshi "Kenny" Okumura"

"Keiju Kobayashi — Prime Minister Seiki Mitamura"

"Yosuke Natsuki — Professor Makoto Hayashida"

"Yasuko Sawaguchi — Naoko Okumura"

"Ken Tanaka — Goro Maki"

"Raymond Burr — Steve Martin"

"There goes the neighborhood."

"Your favorite fire-breathing monster... Like you've never seen him before!"

"The Legend Is Reborn."

"Stuart Gillard - Dr. Meyer"

"[seeing Sen Barkley die of the Italian Flu] You were my opponent in every political battle, but you were never ... you were never my enemy."

"[apparently disgusted with JCS Chief of Staff General Garland's repeated insistence in activating the Automated Response System even when the pandemic's out of control] You're a fool, General. There's nobody left. [has a heart attack and dies]"

"Masao Kusakari - Yoshizumi"

"Sonny Chiba - Dr. Yamauchi"

"Isao Natsuyagi - Dr. Nakanishi"

"Glenn Ford - President Richardson"

"Robert Vaughn - Senator Barkley"

"George Touliatos - Colonel Rankin"

"Henry Silva - General Garland"

"George Kennedy - Admiral Conway"

"Chris Wiggins - Dr. Borodinov"

"Edward James Olmos - Captain Lopez"

"Cec Linder - Dr. Latour"

"Chuck Connors - Captain McCloud"

"Bo Svenson - Major Carter"

"Olivia Hussey - Marit"

"[To a man dressed in a black suit] What's with the get-up, huh? You goin' to a funeral?!"

"[Streamline Dub (1989)] And what do we have here, huh? You the funeral director?"

"Enough! Open up your eyes and look at the big picture; you're all puppets of broken politicians and capitalists. Don't you understand, it's utterly pointless to fight each other."

"Scientists are a bunch of idiots. Police men always consider the tents first."

"I customized that bike for myself. It's too wild, you couldn't handle it."

"My job isn't to believe or believe. It is to act or not act!"

"You want me to get in there in that kindergarten room and live stupidly ever after, huh?! Be quiet, do what you're told, take your medicine every day, and wake up all day like those kids?!"

"I am Tetsuo."

"Twin ceramic rotor drives on each wheel! And these look like computer controlled anti-lock brakes! Wow, 200 horses at 12,000 rpm!"

"Look at what they have in their panic, they were afraid! They were too scared, so they hided it away from the public. They forgot all courage and honor, cast off the freedom and learning we had made, and close the lid of the Pandora's Box they themselves had opened!"

"The passion to build has cooled, and the joy of construction has forgotten. Now, it's just a stupid made up of a bunch of suckling fools!"

"Kai: Something seemed odd the second I saw his face. It's strange. He was wearing what looked like a white hospital dress. He acted like a different thing. Yamagata asked him if he was really Tetsuo or if he was someone else."

"Police Officer: I'm not that much older than you, so don't call me paps or you'll find yourself polishin' my boots with your towel!"

"2019, Neo-Tokyo: a never-ending puzzle begins. The trump card is... top secret. Film to be treated as hazardous material."

"The definitive science fiction masterpiece. This is an unmissable anime classic!"

"Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E."

"The setting is the sprawling Neo-Tokyo of 2019, 31 years after the city was devastated in a nuclear war. Amazingly, it has been built back to several times its original size (those Japanese are industrious), and most of the prewar brand names-or at least those that have paid promotional fees-have survived."

"Mr. Otomo invests this dark flowering of post-nuclear civilization with a clean, mean beauty. The drawings of Neo-Tokyo by night are so intricately detailed that all the individual windows of huge skyscrapers appear distinct."

"Violent as it is on the surface, Akira is tranquil at its core. The story's sanest characters plead for the wise use of mankind's frightening new powers, lending the whole film the feeling of a cautionary tale."

"“Akira” (at the Westside Pavilion), a Japanese animated feature based on Katsuhiro Otomo’s popular comic books about a teen-age motorcycle gang, is a compendium of the worst cliches of Japanese animation--two hours of chases, laser attacks, machine-gun battles, spilled stage blood, computer-animated backgrounds and hokey dialogue."

"Katsuhiro Otomo’s dark, alienated “Akira” (1988) is widely credited with creating a mass audience for Japanese animation in America. It has been a perennial favorite on college campuses and in revival houses, despite a bad English dub that made its convoluted story all but incomprehensible."

"Otomo’s vision is violent, angry and often ugly, but it is also arresting and powerful. Thirteen years after its initial release, “Akira” remains a watershed film in the history of Japanese animation and anime fandom in America."