# Dead Leaves (2004)

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**Original title**: *デッド　リーブス*
**Runtime**: 52 min
**Genres**: Animation, Action, Science Fiction
**Directed by**: Hiroyuki Imaishi
**Written by**: Takeichi Honda
**Starring**: Kappei Yamaguchi, Takako Honda, Mitsuo Iwata, Kiyoyuki Yanada, Nobuo Tobita, Wataru Takagi

> *Breaking out of prison was never this much… fun?*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You wake naked on a roadside, two fugitives with zero memory, and start bartering stolen food for clothes downtown. Authorities slap you in a lunar prison named Dead Leaves where riot lives on loop, and the warden just handed you matching laser lollipops.

**Mood tags**: playful, unhinged

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