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Death Note

Death Note

The battle of wits begins. Whose side are you on?

2006 2h 6mFantasyMysteryThriller

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

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Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

The vibe

suicidepoliceheart attackfbimoral ambiguitynotebookremakemurderserial killertokyo, japan

Behind it

Shusuke KanekoShusuke KanekoDirectorTetsuya OishiScreenplayKenji KawaiKenji KawaiComposerHiroshi TakaseCinematography

Cast

Tatsuya FujiwaraTatsuya FujiwaraLight YagamiKenichi MatsuyamaKenichi MatsuyamaLAsaka SetoAsaka SetoNaomi MisoraShigeki HosokawaShigeki HosokawaRaye IwamatsuErika TodaErika TodaMisa AmaneShunji FujimuraShunji FujimuraWatariTakeshi KagaTakeshi KagaSoichiro YagamiYuu KashiiYuu KashiiShiori AkinoShido NakamuraShido NakamuraRyuk (voice)Sota AoyamaSota AoyamaTouta MatsudaNorman EnglandNorman EnglandFBI AgentGodai MichikoGodai MichikoSachiko YagamiMiyuki KomatsuMiyuki KomatsuDetective SanamiMatt LaganMatt LaganLind L. TaylorSarutoki MinagawaSarutoki MinagawaKiichiro OsoredaHikari MitsushimaHikari MitsushimaSayu YagamiTakeo NakaharaTakeo NakaharaMatsubaraIkuji NakamuraIkuji NakamuraDetective Hirokazu Ukida

Director

Shusuke Kaneko

Writer

Tetsuya Oishi

Release date

17 Jun 2006

Runtime

2h 6m

Budget

$20.0M

Box office

$29.7M · 1.5× its budget

Studio

Nippon Television Network Corporation, Shueisha, Shochiku

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Death Note Collection

A collection of live action movies based on the Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.

Death Note

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

3.5

Death Note

2006

Death Note: The Last Name

In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?

3.5

Death Note: The Last Name

2006

Death Note: L Change the WorLd

"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari, L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.

3.0

Death Note: L Change the WorLd

2008

Death Note: Light Up the NEW World

10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru is a member of the Death Note special task force team with 6 other investigators including Matsuda who experienced the Kira case of 10 years ago. Mass murders caused by the death note takes place on Wall Street in the U.S., Shibuya in Japan and other places. World famous private investigator Ryuzaki, who is the rightful successor of L, also investigates the mass murders. They discover that 6 death notes exists in the world. A computer virus called Kira spreads in the world. A message in the Kira virus says to turn in 6 death notes. A person who has 6 death notes overwhelm the world. The confrontation begins between the person who wants Kira’s revival and the people who want to stop it.

3.1

Death Note: Light Up the NEW World

2016

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