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Death Note(Movie, 2006)

Original title: "デスノート" (Japanese/JA)
FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 6min | Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Death NoteRating: 3.5/5 (with 289289 votes)
Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto) is a 2006 Japanese supernatural thriller film based on the manga series of the same title by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The film primarily center on a Tokyo college student who attempts to change the world into a utopian society without crime, by committing a world-wide massacre of criminals and people whom he deems morally unworthy of life, through a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in the pages, while being hunted down by an elite task-force of law enforcement officers within Tokyo, led by an enigmatic international detective. The film was directed by Shusuke Kaneko, produced by Nippon Television, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan. The film was licensed by VIZ Pictures, Warner Bros. It was followed by a sequel, Death Note 2: The Last Name, released in the same year. A spin-off film directed by Hideo Nakata and titled L: Change the World, was released on February 9, 2008. Another sequel, Death Note: Light Up the New World, was released in October 2016. ()
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About 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.

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Additional Information

Production country: Japan
Based on: "Death Note" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: Japanese (JA)
Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)
Translated into 22 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 06/17/2006
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"死亡笔记"
"死亡笔记 I"
"Death Note 1"
"Le Cahier de la Mort"
"Desu nôto"
"Тетрадь смерти"
"Death Note (2006)"
"Death Note 1"

4 movies in the Death Note Collection

2006 Death Note
2006 Death Note: The Last Name ("デスノート the Last name")
2008 L: change the WorLd ("L: Change the WorLd")
2016 Death Note: Light Up the New World ("デスノート, Light up the NEW world")

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