Anime Double Bill at The Prince Charles Cinema on 2nd April
The Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square is to show a classic anime movie double bill on 2nd April.
The cinema will be showing the subtitled versions of Akira at 19.00 followed by the original Ghost in the Shell at 20.45. Tickets cost £12, or £7 for members of the cinema. Both films have a 15 rating. Tickets are sold at the Prince Charles Cinema website.
Ian Wolf
Ian works as an anime and manga critic for Anime UK News, and was also the manga critic for MyM Magazine. His debut book, CLAMPdown, about the manga collective CLAMP, is available now. Outside of anime, he is data specialist for the British Comedy Guide, is QI's most pedantic viewer, has written questions for both The Wall and Richard Osman's House of Games, and has been a contestant on Mastermind.
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