Death Note 2: The Last Name (2006)

Original title

デスノート the Last name

Directed by

Shūsuke Kaneko

Genre

drama film, psychological thriller

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 20m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 549 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A university student uses a supernatural notebook to kill criminals, adopting the alias Kira. A brilliant detective known only as L leads a task force to stop him.

suspensefulmind-bendinggrimintelligentcat-and-mousesupernaturaldeliberatecold

What happens

Death Note 2: The Last Name (デスノート the Last name, Desu Nōto Za Rasuto Neimu) is a 2006 supernatural thriller film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko. The film is the second in a series of live-action Japanese films released in 2006 based on the Death Note manga and anime series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The film primarily centers on a university student named: Light Yagami, who decides to rid the world of the crime element with the help of an otherworldly notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it, under the alias of a controversial serial-killer/vigilante: "Kira", while evading capture from a Tokyo police task-force, led by an enigmatic and highly-intelligent criminal profiler: "L", who is determined to find and apprehend Light. The film was produced by Nippon Television, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan. It was licensed by VIZ Pictures. A spin-off, L: Change the World, was released in 2008. A sequel, Death Note: Light Up the New World, was released in 2016. On Friday, September 21, 2018, at Anime Weekend Atlanta, FUNimation Entertainment announced that they would license Death Note, Death Note 2: The Last Name, and Death Note: Light Up the NEW World, and said that they would be released on January 22, 2019, on subtitle-only Blu-ray, DVD, and digital combo packs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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