Movie
Death Note
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2006-06-17
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Genres
- Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Nippon Television Network Corporation, Shueisha, Shochiku, VAP, Nikkatsu Corporation, Horipro, Warner Bros. Japan, Nikkatsu Studio, Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company, Miyagi Television Broadcasting, Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company, Hiroshima Telecasting, Fukuoka Broadcasting System, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Konami
- Country
- Japan
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Tatsuya Fujiwara as Light Yagami
- Kenichi Matsuyama as L
- Asaka Seto as Naomi Misora
- Shigeki Hosokawa as Raye Iwamatsu
- Erika Toda as Misa Amane
- Shunji Fujimura as Watari
- Takeshi Kaga as Soichiro Yagami
- Yuu Kashii as Shiori Akino
- Shido Nakamura as Ryuk (voice)
- Sota Aoyama as Touta Matsuda
- Norman England as FBI Agent
- Godai Michiko as Sachiko Yagami
Crew
- Shusuke Kaneko - Director
- Tetsuya Oishi - Screenplay
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