Steamboy

“He will save the future.”

In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor named Ray Steam (Anne Suzuki) is pulled into a deadly fight over a new kind of steam power. Katsuhiro Otomo, who made Akira, packs the frame with pistons, boilers and brass, and the pace seldom lets up. Under all the machinery sits a plain question about who gets to own an invention and what it should be used for.