Death Note

About Death Note

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.

Death Note (2006) is a fantasy mystery film directed by Shusuke Kaneko. It runs 126 minutes and was released in June 2006.

The film is filed under criminal, supernatural power, heart attack, and moral ambiguity. The film began as a manga.

Tatsuya Fujiwara stars as Light Yagami, Kenichi Matsuyama as L, Asaka Seto as Naomi Misora, and Shigeki Hosokawa as Raye Iwamatsu. The screenplay is by Tetsuya Oishi. It comes from Chukyo TV Broadcasting Company, Nikkatsu Corporation, and Warner Bros. Japan.

Untraceable, Red Dragon, and Longlegs make useful companions to Death Note, all filed under FBI, murder, and police. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 837 votes and it carries a R rating.