Neo-Tokyo, 2019. The city is being rebuilt post World War III. Childhood friends and high school dropouts, Tetsuo and Kaneda, stumble across a secret government project to develop new weapons - telekinetic humans. The military captures Tetsuo and conducts experiments on him that unleash his latent psychic ability. When he learns of the existence of his 'peer', Akira, the project's most powerful subject, Tetsuo deteres to challenge him. But when Tetsuo's new powers rage out of control, he lashes out at the world that has oppressed him! Tetsuo