
31 Mar 2010

Cinema Libertad
A boy living in an abandoned cinema meets a young girl. As their friendship develops, the boy entertains the other cinema residents with stories and shadow puppets.

Will things change for the better?
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

Shin

Hanako

Takeshi

Yosehei

Batasuke

Chika

Yotsematsu

Yasu

Sakaguchi

Masa

Thief

Black Glasses

Doranya

Goro Murata

Boss of the Ohama Clan

Yari

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A boy living in an abandoned cinema meets a young girl. As their friendship develops, the boy entertains the other cinema residents with stories and shadow puppets.

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