The Death Note Films

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The Death Note films center around Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara), a young man whose life undergoes a drastic change when he discovers a mysterious notebook known as the "Death Note". The Death Note's instructions claim that if a person's name is written in it while picturing the person's face, that person shall die. Light is initially skeptical of the notebook's authenticity but after experimenting with it using names of relentless criminals, he realizes that the Death Note is real. After meeting with the owner of the Death Note, a shinigami (death god or reaper) named Ryuk, Light seeks to become "god of the New World" by passing his own judgment on those he deem to be evil or who get in his way.

After months of killing criminals, Light is dubbed Kira by the public and some believe him to be righteous about killing criminals. Interpol is no closer to catching him and is about to pass the case on to the Ministry of Health, dismissing the series of deaths as caused by an epidemic, until a mysterious and brilliant techno-detective known as L (Kenichi Matsuyama) enters the scene. The anonymous L has solved many cases with his assistant Watari but because of the situation's gravity, L reveals himself to the agents and joins forces with them. L manages to confront Light live on TV, deduces that he is in the Kanto region of Japan and points out that he can "kill without lifting a finger". A game of psychological cat and mouse then ensues between the two eccentric geniuses.

Synopsis sourced from Wikipedia

The second movie in the Death Note film series, Death Note: The Last Name picks up where the first movie left off. Death Note owner Light (Fujiwara Tatsuya) joins the police team in order to square off against his rival L (Matsuyama Kenichi), who rightly suspects Light of being Kira.

Both Light and L are thrown off, however, when another Kira appears. A second Death Note has fallen to earth, and this time it gets picked up by teen pop idol Amane Misa (Toda Erika) who acquires the power to kill with "the Shinigami eyes". An ardent Kira fan, Misa eagerly teams up with Light to outwit L in an elaborate plan, but L has more than a few schemes up his sleeve as well. Who will be the last man standing? Who will be the last name in the Death Note?

Synopsis from the Death Note product page on YesAsia

Death Note Rules

The human whose name is written in this note shall die.

This note will not take effect unless the writer has the subject's face in their mind when writing his/her name. Therefore, people sharing the same name will not be affected.

If the cause of death is written within 40 seconds of writing the subject's name,
it will happen.

If the cause of death is not specified, the subject will simply die of a heart attack.

After writing the cause of death, the details of the death should be written
in the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds

Light's Fake Death Note Rules

If the owner of the Death Note does not kill with the Death Note within 13 days of the last entry, he or she will die.

If the Death Note is burned, destroyed, or otherwise damaged in any way, all those who have touched that Death Note will die.

See the complete list of Death Note rules.

Tatsuya Fujiwara as Light Yagami
Kenichi Matsuyama as L
Erika Toda as Misa Amane
Asaka Seto as Naomi Misora
Shidou Nakamura as Ryuk (voice)
Shinnosuke Ikehata as Rem (Voice in Death Note: The Last Name)
Shigeki Hosokawa as Raye Iwamatsu
Shunji Fujimura as Watari
Takeshi Kaga as Soichiro Yagami
Yuu Kashii as Shiori Akino
Hikari Mitsushima as Sayu Yagami
Shin Shimizu as Kanzo Mogi
Matt Lagan as Lind L. Taylor
Michiko Godai as Sachiko Yagami
Tatsuhito Okuda as Shuichi Aizawa
Sota Aoyama as Touta Matsuda
Ikuji Nakamura as Hirokazu Ukita
Ruben Chacon as Kevin LeRoy
Masanori Fujita as Ryotaro Sakajo
Norman England as FBI Agent
Takeo Nakahara as Matsubara
Yoji Tanaka as Sasaki
Masahiko Tsugawa as Saeki
Nana Katase as Kiyomi Takada

L: Change the World chronicles the final 23 days of L's life as he solves one final case involving a bioterrorist group that aims to wipe out much of humanity with a virus with one-hundred times the virulence of Ebola. L (Kenichi Matsuyama) takes a boy he names Near, the sole survivor of a village in Thailand, and an elementary schooler named Maki Nikaido under his wing.

Dr. Nikaido, a researcher, received a sample of a deadly virus which destroyed a village in Thailand. His assistant, Dr. Kimiko Kujo who goes by the initial K reveals herself to be the leader of the organization that created the virus. Dr. Nikaido, who has created an antidote, refuses to give it her. She kills him, convinced that his daughter Maki has the formula.

Maki runs away, eventually finding L's headquarters but the group tracks her down, forcing L, accompanied by Maki and Near, to run away to a high-tech truck with the help of an FBI agent, Hideaki Suruga. L seeks the help of Nikaido's research partner in creating an antidote. Using Near, L manages to acquire the antidote just as the terrorists are about to take an infected Maki to the US to spread the virus. L stops the plane and gives all the infected passengers including the terrorist the antidote. Maki then tries to kill Kujo for revenge but L stops her. The movie concludes with L leaving Near and giving him his "real name".

Shunji Fujimura also reprises his role as Watari though the character dies early in the film (to coincide with events in Death Note:The Last Name. The major characters of the main storyline Light Yagami (Kira), Misa Amane, and Shinigami Ryuk all have brief cameos in the film.

Synopsis sourced from Wikipedia