Japan Synopsis
デッド リーブス
Pandy and Retro awaken naked on Earth with no recollection of their past. They embark on a crime spree in search of food and clothing, but are captured by authorities and sent to the infamous lunar penitentiary named Dead Leaves.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Dead Leaves. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
2 sharedDragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly
★ 5.7 · Japan
2 sharedEscape Plan 2: Hades
★ 5.2 · China
2 sharedDoraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Winged Angels
★ 7.3 · Japan
2 sharedMetropolis
★ 7.1 · Japan
2 sharedMade in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
★ 7.9 · Japan
2 sharedDoraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration
★ 7.6 · Japan
Other Titles From Production I.G
Animation + Comedy in Japan
973 Japan titles in our catalog blend the Animation and Comedy genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Dead Leaves itself).
The 2003–2005 Japan Window
Dead Leaves holds position #125 of 298 Japan films in the 2003–2005 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Dead Leaves premiered alongside 95 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 95 other Japan films in 2004.
The 1567th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).
Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).
Audience Engagement
106 audience reviews — more than 77% of Japan films in our index.
Review volume (77th percentile) outruns trending popularity (62th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Dead Leaves, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- sexual humor · 3
- cloning · 2
- space prison · 1
- criminal · 27
- prisoner · 14
- prison escape · 9
- slapstick comedy · 7
- anime · 711
- robot · 45
- prison · 32
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,128 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (54th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Animation productions specifically: #1,468 of 2,532 (top 58%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Production I.G |
| Runtime | 52m |
| Release Date | January 17, 2004 |
| IMDb | tt0439533 |