Movie
20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
Overview
In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?
Details
- Release date
- 2008-08-19
- Runtime
- 142 min
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Cine Bazar, TOHO, Toho Eizo Bijutsu, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Shogakukan, VAP, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, dentsu, Yomiuri Shimbun Company, Office Crescendo, d-rights, Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company, Miyagi Television Broadcasting, Shizuoka Daiichi Television, Hiroshima Telecasting, Fukuoka Broadcasting System
- Country
- Japan, Thailand
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Toshiaki Karasawa as Kenji Endô
- Takako Tokiwa as Yukiji
- Teruyuki Kagawa as Yoshitsune
- Hidehiko Ishizuka as Maruo
- Takashi Ukaji as Mon-chan
- Hiroyuki Miyasako as Keroyon
- Katsuhisa Namase as Donkey
- Fumiyo Kohinata as Yamane
- Kuranosuke Sasaki as Fukubê
- Shiro Sano as Yan-bô
- Shiro Sano as Mâ-bô
- Kanji Tsuda as Moroboshi
Crew
- Yukihiko Tsutsumi - Director
- Naoki Urasawa - Screenplay
- Yusuke Watanabe - Screenplay
- Yasushi Fukuda - Screenplay
- Takashi Nagasaki - Screenplay
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