Freedom: Complete Collection
Bandai Entertainment (2006)
Adventure, Animation, Science Fiction
In Collection
#991
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Seen ItYes
669198620003
IMDB   7.5
220 mins USA / English
Blu-ray Disc  Region 1   MA13
Daisuke Namikawa Takeru
Showtaro Morikubo Kazuma
Dai Matsumoto Junk Shop Guy
Eri Sendai Chiyo
Kappei Yamaguchi Bis
Kazunari Tanaka Dorowa
Kouhei Fukuhara Goshu
Sanae Kobayashi Ao
Seizo Katou Alan
Takuya Kirimoto Taira
Yumiko Kobayashi Ricky
Kiyomi Yazawa Moonshine Member
Kouichi Yamada Moonshine Member
Masaki Kôda Moonshine Member
Riki Kitazawa Moonshine Member
Director
Shuhei Morita
Producer Wataru Tanaka
Kenji Uchida
Writer Dai Sato
Katsuhiko Chiba
Musician Yoshihiro Ike
Hikaru Utada

More than 160 years has passed since the orbital station (Skyport) fell on earth and wiped out all of humanity. The moon colony, Eden, has survived and expanded. In the year 2267, at the age of fifteen, Takeru is taking full advantage of Freedom - the short interlude between the end of compulsory education and the rite of becoming a full citizen. He has taken to hanging out with his friends and running his custom built vehicle in the local races. Angry at a racing loss, he goes for walk outside of the dome and stumbles across some strange items and pictures scattered about in a crater on the surface of the moon. Entranced by a picture of a girl standing under a blue sky, Takeru begins to ask questions that the Eden’s ruling Foundation does not want answered. For unknown reasons, The Foundation has perpetuated the myth that all life on earth has been wiped out and is willing to take extraordinary steps to keep the secret secure.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   25 mins    11/24/2006  1.  Freedom 1
Even 300 years into the future, kids will continue to race hot rods in tunnels.
Director:  Shuhei Morita  Writer:  Dai Sato  / Katsuhiko Chiba 
    Seen it: Yes   25 mins    2/23/2007  2.  Freedom 2
During routine maintenance on the lunar surface, Takeru finds a strange capsule containing a single photograph. Captivated by the enigmatic girl in the photo, he scours the city in vain for clues to her identity. In desperation, Takeru and friends turn to old man Alan - and are shocked by what he reveals. In search of the truth, Takeru and Kazuma escape Eden, but are soon pursued by mysterious robots. Will they head back to safety - or speed past the point of no return?
Director:  Shuhei Morita  Writer:  Dai Sato  / Katsuhiko Chiba 
    Seen it: Yes   25 mins    4/25/2007  3.  Freedom 3
What do you do when you discover everything you believe is a lie...and your freedom an illusion? Entering forbidden territory, Takeru has uncovered Eden's most closely guarded secretand finds himself being hunted by the Guidance Council. Shattered and disillusioned, Takeru recklessly attempts to escape to the only place he can discover the truthand secure his freedom.
Director:  Shuhei Morita  Writer:  Dai Sato  / Katsuhiko Chiba 
    Seen it: Yes   25 mins    7/27/2007  4.  Freedom 4
Takeru and Biz speed through space in the emergency escape craft launched without Guidance Council approval. Kazuma, who was meant to fly with Takeru, was left behind to face the wrath of a very perturbed Guidance Council. When Takeru and Biz land on Earth they find it to be a little closer to what Eden had always told them it was: A great lifeless expanse of desert and devastation.
Director:  Shuhei Morita  Writer:  Dai Sato  / Katsuhiko Chiba 
    Seen it: Yes   25 mins    10/26/2007  5.  Freedom 5
After a 200,000-mile quest to Earth, Takeru somehow finds Ao - the girl in the photograph - living in a desolate Florida village among the ruins of the NASA space program. But he soon discovers his search for love has just begun... As he tries to fit in as an alien on his own home planet, he learns of a mysterious legend known only as "FREEDOM." And the Chapter of Earth continues...
Director:  Shuhei Morita  Writer:  Dai Sato  / Katsuhiko Chiba 
    Seen it: Yes   25 mins    1/25/2008  6.  Freedom 6
With the fate of mankind riding on his shoulders, Takeru vows to return to Eden. And after revealing her childhood memories of a space flight gone horribly - and fatally - wrong, Ao demands to go with him. But can their makeshift rocket, scrapped together from an antiquated Apollo program, make the journey? As the series speeds towards its dramatic climax, it's a voyage sure to end in destiny - or disaster.
Director:  Shuhei Morita  Writer:  Dai Sato  / Katsuhiko Chiba 
    Seen it: Yes   25 mins    5/23/2008  7.  Freedom 7
A single column of smoke trails across the blue sky. It is the new moon rocket, inspired by the Earth girl Ao's determination to preserve her father's legacy. Two years in the making, the rocket teaches the moon boys Takeru, Biz and Ao's entire village to once again look to the skies and dream.
Director:  Shuhei Morita  Writer:  Dai Sato  / Katsuhiko Chiba 
Edition Details
Series Freedom
Distributor Bandai Entertainment
Release Date 11/11/2008
Screen Ratio Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio Tracks SUB [English]
No. of Disks/Tapes 1