A battle between the world's two greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Tatsuya Fujiwara | ... | Light Yagami | |
| Ken'ichi Matsuyama | ... | L | |
| Asaka Seto | ... | Naomi Misora | |
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Shigeki Hosokawa | ... | FBI Agent Raye Iwamatsu |
| Erika Toda | ... | Misa Amane | |
| Shunji Fujimura | ... | Watari | |
| Takeshi Kaga | ... | Sôichiro Yagami | |
| Yû Kashii | ... | Shiori Akino | |
| Shidô Nakamura | ... | Ryuk (voice) | |
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Ryôhei Abe | ||
| Sota Aoyama | ... | Detective Tôta Matsuda | |
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Norman England | ... | FBI Agent |
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Masanori Fujita | ... | Stalker |
| Michiko Godai | ... | Sachiko Yagami | |
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Miyuki Komatsu | ... | Detective Sanami |
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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 perpetrator. An all out battle between the greatest minds on earth begins, the winner controlling the world. Written by Ryuzaki
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JapaneseRelease Date:
17 June 2006 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$20,000,000 (estimated)Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Light Yagami: Justice? I am justice! I am the god of the new world, saving it from evil and ridding it of fear. Those who betray God are the evil ones.
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(at around 5 mins) One of the criminals who dies in his prison cell near the beginning of the film is reading the novel Bye Bye Jupiter (1984) (which was the source of the film of the same name). See more »Goofs
(at around 1h 5 mins) On the subway, when Raye Iwamatsu first opens the file containing the FBI agent IDs, it first reads his name as Raye Penber (his original name in the anime). When the window is enlarged, it is switched back to Raye Iwamatsu. See more »Quotes
L: [during a television broadcast] I am justice.Light Yagami: Justice? I am justice! I am the god of the new world, saving it from evil and ridding it of fear. Those who betray God are the evil ones.
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Death Note, the movie I though was amazingly done! For the most part it stays very close to the manga and keeps true to the general feel of Death Note. The over all story of DN spans across 8 manga volumes and how they've compiled them has been quite ingenious, Again keeping with the feel of Death Note. If you've read the manga, you will notice certain events, and like with most movies compared to the books, you can tell where gaps are by poor character development, more times than not. With Death Note it's merely seamless.
The characters are wonderfully and are perfectly portrayed! Ryuk is outstanding and rather entertaining to watch, especially when he goes into apple withdrawal's.