Desu nôto: The last name (2006)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

Shusuke Kaneko

Writers:

Tsugumi Ôba (comic) &
Takeshi Obata (comic) ...

Release Date:

3 November 2006 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Picking up where the first one leaves off, Light joins the task force searching for Kira in an effort to avert suspicion from himself---and get rid of L.

Plot Keywords:

Based On Comic | Based On Manga

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara	...	Light Yagami
Takeshi Kaga	...	Soichiro Yagami
Shido Nakamura	...	Ryuuk (voice)
Erika Toda	...	Misa Amane
Shigeki Hosokawa	...	FBI Agent Ray
Shunji Fujimura	...	Watari
Ken'ichi Matsuyama	...	L
Shin Shimizu	...	Kenzo Mogi
Sota Aoyama	...	Tota Matsuda
Magy	...	TV Director
Peter	...	Rem (voice) (as Shinnosuke Ikehata)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alexa Devine	...	Kyoko
Michiko Godai	...	Sachiko Yagami
Itsuji Itao	...	Hikima
Nana Katase	...	Kiyomi Takada
Miyuki Komatsu	...	Sawa
Ai Maeda	...	Ayako Yoshino
Hikari Mitsushima	...	Sayu Yagami
Ikuji Nakamura	...	Ukita
Jun Okazaki	...	Festival Goer
Masahiko Tsugawa	...	Police Chief Saeki
Sakura Uehara	...	Saeko Nishiyama

Also Known As:

Death Note the Last Name (USA) (copyright title)
Death Note: The Last Name (International: English title)

Runtime:

Japan:141 min

Country:

Japan | USA

Language:

Japanese

Color:

Color

Certification:

Hong Kong:IIA | Singapore:PG | South Korea:12 | Australia:M | UK:12A | France:U | New Zealand:M

Filming Locations:

Kitakyûshû City, Fukuoka, Japan

Company:

Death Note Film Partners

Trivia:

The film is dedicated: "In Memory of Hiroshi Takase." Takase was the Director of Photography for the first Death Note movie, who died just after finishing it.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Towards the end of the movie, after Light has been killed, there is a scene with L as he spends his last moments playing a solitaire game of chess. If you look closely at the underdeveloped chessboard, you will notice that black's (blue in this case, although traditionally black) queen and king are misplaced on each other's starting positions. Although it is possible that the pieces could have been moved through normal play, it is highly unlikely, as such a movement would be impractical and serve no purpose. This mistake could have been intentional to symbolize L's distress concerning his impending doom, but even that would seem unlikely due to the immense level of intelligence portrayed by L throughout the entire movie. There is an earlier chess scene at the start of the movie when Light first meets L, but the camera does not permit a clear view of the chess board to reveal any other mistakes.

Quotes:

Rem: Yagami Light, you will manage to kill a Shinigami. In fact, you are the Devil.

Movie Connections:

Features Desu nôto (2006)

Soundtrack:

Snow (Hey Oh)

Concluding

This is part two of the Manga/Anime adaptation with the same title. It would make sense for you, to have seen the first part. And I will mention a few things that happened in the first part, without putting a spoiler tag, because I won't say anything about this movie here, but only about the other one.

By now many things have happened, the book that allows you to kill people has been introduced, the keeper of this book, the main characters have been introduced, so this one is more about the payoff. And therefor a slightly better experience than the first one. On the other hand, you have to have seen the first one and if you've seen the first one (and liked it), then there's no chance, you won't watch this movie. And as I said, it delivers! Since there are still some differences (due to time constraint again) to the source material, I'm still looking forward to watch the entire anime series (have only watched a couple of episodes yet)!