Death Note (2006) on Netflix
Light Yagami, a Tokyo student, finds a notebook whose instructions say that anyone named inside it dies. He resolves to rid the world of criminals, and detective L takes the case.
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Plot summary
Light Yagami is a university student in Tokyo who resents the crime and corruption around him. He comes across a notebook lying on the ground, the Death Note, and reads its instructions: a person whose name is entered in it will die. He tries it and finds that it works, and the notebook's earlier owner, a Shinigami named Ryuk, appears to him. Light decides to build a world free of crime by judging those he considers evil, beginning with criminals. The deaths draw Interpol and a detective known only as L, who concludes that the killer the public calls Kira is in Japan and can kill without touching anyone. Light sees L as his greatest adversary, and a psychological cat and mouse game begins. FBI detective Raye Iwamatsu is also on his trail.
Cast
- Michiko Godaias Sachiko Yagami
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Death Note (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Director Shusuke Kaneko chartered an underground railway line to film one scene in Death Note, the first time in Japanese film history an underground line was used for filming, and he used about 500 extras in the film.
- The owner of the Death Note copyright barred director Shusuke Kaneko from changing any of the notebook's rules, yet new rules were still being added to the original manga as the film was made; Kaneko called meeting this condition the hardest part of the production.
- Shusuke Kaneko found the scene where investigators conclude a person is behind the killings the hardest part of the manga to film, so he added a scene of L explaining his logic on a laptop to make the film more believable.
- Death Note's world premiere was held at the UA Langham Place cinema in Hong Kong on October 28, 2006, making it the first Japanese movie to premiere in Hong Kong.
