Death Note (2006)

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The battle of wits begins. Whose side are you on?

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.

• Released: 2006-06-17
• Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
• Runtime: 2h 6m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 7.0/10 from 827 votes

Directed by Shusuke Kaneko.

Top cast

• Tatsuya Fujiwara as Light Yagami
• Kenichi Matsuyama as L
• Asaka Seto as Naomi Misora
• Shigeki Hosokawa as Raye Iwamatsu
• Erika Toda as Misa Amane
• Shunji Fujimura as Watari
• Takeshi Kaga as Soichiro Yagami
• Yuu Kashii as Shiori Akino
• Shido Nakamura as Ryuk (voice)
• Sota Aoyama as Touta Matsuda

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