Katsuhiro Otomo	...	(Director)
Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Izô Hashimoto	...	(Writer)
Mitsuo Iwata	...	Kaneda
Nozomu Sasaki	...	Tetsuo
Mami Koyama	...	Kei
Tesshô Genda	...	Ryu
Hiroshi Ôtake	...	Nezu
Kôichi Kitamura	...	Lady Miyako
Michihiro Ikemizu	...	Inspector / Committee I (voice)
Yuriko Fuchizaki	...	Kaori
Masaaki Ôkura	...	Yamagata
Tarô Arakawa	...	Army / Committee G / Eiichi Watanabe (voice) (as Taro Arakawa)
Takeshi Kusao	...	Kai
Kazumi Tanaka	...	Army (voice)
Masayuki Katô	...	Engineer Sakiyama / Committe D (voice) (as Masayuki Kato)
Yôsuke Akimoto	...	Harukiya Bartender
Masato Hirano	...	Committee F
Hiroshi Ohtake	...	Nezu
Yukimasa Kishino	...	Mitsuru Kuwata / Terrorist / Assistant / Council B (voice)
Kazuhiro Kamifuji	...	Masaru (No. 27) (voice) (as Kazuhiro Kandô)
Tatsuhiko Nakamura	...	Takashi (No. 26) (voice)
Fukue Itô	...	Kiyoko (No. 25) (voice) (as Sachie Itô)
Issei Futamata	...	(voice)
Kôzô Shioya	...	Follower of Miyako (voice)
Michitaka Kobayashi	...	(voice)
Hideyuki Umezu	...	(voice)
Satoru Inagaki	...	(voice)
Kayoko Fujii	...	Girl A (voice)
Masami Toyoshima	...	Girl B (voice)
Yuka Ôno	...	Girl C (voice) (as Yuka Ohno)
Tarô Ishida	...	Colonel Shikishima
Mizuho Suzuki	...	Doctor Ônishi (voice)
Bob Bergen	...	Masaru /
Cam Clarke	...	Kaneda
Watney Held	...	Additional Voices (Streamline version 1989) (voice: English version)
Steve Kramer	...	Ryu (Streamline version 1989) (voice: English version) (as Drew Thomas)
Melora Harte	...	Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Marylin Lane)
Lewis Lemay	...	Additional Voices (Streamline version 1989) (voice: English version)
Jan Rabson	...	Tetsuo
Barbara Goodson	...	Kaori (Streamline version 1989) (voice: English version) (as Barbara Larsen)
Eddie Frierson	...	Additional Voices (Streamline version 1989) (voice: English version) (as Christy Mathewson)
Lara Cody	...	Kei (Streamline version 1989)
Tony Pope	...	Additional Voices (Streamline version 1989) (voice: English version) (as Tony Mozdy)
Julie Phelan	...	Additional Voices (Streamline version 1989) (voice: English version)
Burt Walters	...	Additional Voices (Streamline version 1989) (voice: English version)
Bruce Winant	...	Additional Voices (Streamline version 1989) (voice: English version)
Brad Wurst	...	Additional Voices (Streamline version 1989) (voice: English version)
Robert Axelrod	...	Resistance Member (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
William Bassett	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Johnny Yong Bosch	...	Kaneda (Animaze version 2001)
Ivan Buckley	...	Bartender (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Emily Brown	...	Newscaster / Nurse (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Emilie Brown)
Steve Staley	...	Helicopter Reporter (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Steve Cannon)
Paul St. Peter	...	Interrogator #2 (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as George C. Cole)
Dan Woren	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Jackson Daniels)
Bambi Darro	...	Girl In Kaneda's Gang (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Josil Ferhardt	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Rebecca Forstadt	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Sandy Fox	...	Kiyoko (voice: English version)
Jessica Gee	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Dougary Grant	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Skip Stellrecht	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Henry Douglas Grey)
W.T. Hatch	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Julie Ann Taylor	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Jean Howard)
Matthew Hustin	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Simon Prescott	...	The Doctor (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Simon Isaacson)
Christopher Joyce	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Lee Kelso	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
William Knight	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as William Frederick Knight)
Lex Lang	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Patricia Ja Lee	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Pee Jay Lee)
Peter Lee	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Wendee Lee	...	Kei (Animaze version 2001)
Mike Lembaw	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Detroit Louie	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Steve Blum	...	Nurse (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as David Lucas)
Jamieson Price	...	Colonel (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Cody Mackenzie	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Mona Marshall	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Dan Martin	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Michael McConnohie	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Mike Reynolds	...	Mr. Nezu (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Ray Michaels)
Ezra Weisz	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Ethan Murray)
Tony Oliver	...	Police Car Driver (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Jonathan C. Osborne	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Guy Pinkham	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Richard Plantagenet	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Ted Rae	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Joe Romersa	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Michelle Ruff	...	Kaori (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Tony Sarducci	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Joshua Seth	...	Tetsuo Shima (Animaze version 2001)
Adam Sholder	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Michael Sorich	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Peter Spellos	...	Council Member (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Doug Stone	...	Council Member (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Sam Strong	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Jim Taggert	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Lisa Tarulli	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Michael Forest	...	Colonel's Council Connection (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Russell Thor)
Chloe Thornton	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version)
Kirk Thornton	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Sparky Thornton)
Michael Lindsay	...	Member of Kaneda's Gang (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Dylan Tully)
Derek Stephen Prince	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as David Umansky)
Bob Buchholz	...	Ryu (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Robert Wicks)
Kurt P. Wimberger	...	Additional Voices (Animaze version 2001) (voice: English version) (as Kurt Wimberger)
Matthew Mercer	...	Kaisuke / Additional Voices (voice: English version) (as Matt 'Masamune' Miller)
Shoji Yamashiro	...	Composer
Katsuji Misawa	...	Cinematographer
Takeshi Seyama	...	Editor

Summary: Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.