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Dead Leaves

Japan

2004

55 Min
Color
Japanese
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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DIR Hiroyuki Imaishi

PROD Kaoru Mfaume

SCR Takeichi Honda

CAST Takako Honda, Kappei Yamaguchi, Yûko Mizutani, Mitsuo Iwata, Kiyoyuki Yanada

MUSIC Fuji-Yama

ANIM Masahito Yamashita

SOUND Fusanobu Fujiyama

Synopsis

Retro and Pandy, two unlikely renegades, awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past, but with superior physical abilities. After embarking on a devastating crime spree for food, clothing and transportation in downtown Tokyo (which lasts for a minimum of five minutes), they are captured by authorities and sent to the infamous prison called Dead Leaves, on the half destroyed moon.

Once incarcerated, they orchestrate a mass prison break and discover the secret work being carried out at the facility. Over the course of the film, it is discoved that Pandy and Retro were spies working for the facility and the crazed warden is trying to get revenge on Pandy by recreating a deranged fairy tale she remembers from her childhood.

In the finale, Pandy has Retro’s child, who comes out with twin machine guns and blows the warden away. A giant worm (part of the demented fairy tale) begins consuming the station until the mutant baby sacrifices himself so that his two parents can live. The film ends with Pandy and Retro crashing in the middle of Earth’s dystopian metropolis in their escape pod, crushing a bystander below. —IMDb

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By Twitchfilm.com on September 23, 2011
In the coming week, months, maybe even years, I’ll be reviewing some of my old favorites. I’ll try to focus on the films that I feel never got the proper attention they deserved here (for whatever reason
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By GekkoP on December 22, 2011

Appassionandomi alla cinematografia asiatica, sapevo che mi sarei dovuto confrontare con l’animazione giapponese presto o tardi. Ci voleva Hong Kong per abbattere i miei pregiudizi, nonostante opere…  read review

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