After more than eight years of development, Katsuhiro Otomo, director of the famed and beloved "Akira," has finished his alternate-history epic. Set in the 19th century where steam power is king and retro-futuristic machines populate the UK, young Ray Steam is an inventor of steam-driven technology following in the line of his father and grandfather. When Ray's grandfather sends home a "steam-ball" capable of immense power and assigns him to protect it at all costs, Ray becomes caught up in a battle of possession over the revolutionary device between him and his grandfather, his own father, and an organization that dreams of harnessing the steam-ball for war. Continuing from the gorgeously animated adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's "Metropolis," Otomo creates another visually impressive, action-packed epic.

FILM LINKS

* Official Website with Trailer & Clips
* STEAMBOY on IMDb