20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008) on Netflix
NR20082h 22m
In 1969 Kenji and his friends filled a Book of Prophecies with villains. In 1997 he manages a convenience store while a cult leader called Friend acts out that book.
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During a summer holiday in 1969, Kenji and his classmates build a secret base and imagine themselves fighting villains who want to rule the world. They set down those imaginary battles in a Book of Prophecies. By 1997, Kenji has given up a hoped-for career as a rock star and runs a convenience store. His ordinary routine breaks apart when an old classmate dies under unexplained circumstances and a whole family from the neighborhood vanishes. Around the same time a religious cult appears, led by a figure known as Friend, and the incidents it leaves behind match the predictions the children once wrote down.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008)
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- The publishers funded the trilogy with what the article calls the biggest budget in the history of Japanese cinema, to avoid disappointing fans of Naoki Urasawa's manga, and it used three hundred actors, thousands of extras and shoots in countries including New York, London, Paris, Beijing and Rio de Janeiro.
