20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End

Original title: 20-seiki shônen: Honkaku kagaku bôken eiga

20082008
2h 22m

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6.6/10

2.7K

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20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008)

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Adventure Fantasy Mystery

Years after a schoolboy writes a book of prophecies, a mysterious super-villain uses it as his master-plan of world destruction.Years after a schoolboy writes a book of prophecies, a mysterious super-villain uses it as his master-plan of world destruction.Years after a schoolboy writes a book of prophecies, a mysterious super-villain uses it as his master-plan of world destruction.

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

2.7K

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- Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Writers
- Yasushi Fukuda(screenplay)
- Takashi Nagasaki(screenplay)
- Naoki Urasawa(screenplay)
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Takako Tokiwa in 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008)

Toshiaki Karasawa in 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008)

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Followed by 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope (2009)

Soundtracks
20th Century Boy
Written by Marc Bolan
Performed by T. Rex

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Featured review

7/10

strange... but pleased there's more to come!

Good, strange film this.

it's tongue in cheek, live action straight out of the manga comics. You don't need to have seen any of the Manga series to tell where to origins of this film come from.

the flashbacks are done well, the story is strange but flows nicely, and there is a great soundtrack.

Looking forward to the next two films, as anyone who has seen this will confirm, it would have been a very annoying ending had this not already been planned to be a trilogy.

This film seems to have had a relatively big budget, according to IMDb and wiki, for the type of film it is, which is good to see.

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