Anime Lecture and Film Screening

A lecture, ?Sexual Robots and Plastic Humans in Anime?, will be given by an Australian anime expert, Phillip Brophy. You will get to know more about the fascinating world of Japanese animation films.

Film Screening: Akira

Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is well
on the way to rebuilding after
World War III. The central characters,
Kaneda and Tetsuo, two high school
drop-outs,are members of a joy-riding motorcycle gang. In the opening scene, Kaneda and Tetsuo stumble upon a secret government project to develop telekinetic humans, apparently for use as weapons. Tetsuo learns of the existence of his 'peer' Akira, the project's most powerful subject, and determines to challenge him...

21 September 2007, 2 - 5pm, The Auditorium, Auckland Museum, Auckland, New Zealand