This is not something that gains its full flight until one comes to the sequel Death Note: The Last Name, nevertheless what we have here is still highly amusing. The battle of wits between Light and L is what makes the film. The film starts to kick in when we get to the introduction of the character of L.
If this were an American film, it would surely concentrate the story on a conveyor belt of novelty deaths a la Final Destination (2000) and sequels. As the film sets in, no attempt is made to spice the deaths up – we go through one death after another and Shusuke Kaneko lacks interest in varying the methods in any way. I must admit I started watching Death Note thinking that the film had a limited premise – teenager finds if he writes people’s name in a book that then they die of a heart-attack. Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara) and the death god Ryuk
In terms of its premise, Death Note feels like another riff on Ring (1998) and sequels – a curse is launched that causes people to die within a prescribed time period – crossbred with the Stephen King short story Typewriter of the Gods (1983), which was filmed as an episode of Tales from the Darkside (1983-6), about a man who discovers a word processor that can re-edit and delete reality. Happily, Shusuke Kaneko returns to form with the Death Note films, although he subsequently abandoned genre filmmaking for several years up until Danger Dolls (2014) about a girl action team and the time travel comedy Linking Love (2017). Kaneko’s star dipped below the horizon somewhat in the 00s with films that never quite held the same promise as these earlier works such as the fantasy musical Toast of Love (2002) and Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005).
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The popularity of the Death Note phenomenon has also resulted in a stand-alone film L: Change the World (2008), which concerns L’s activities subsequent to the films Death Note (2015), an eleven-episode tv mini-series remake of the manga, a further film Death Note: Light Up the New World (2016) and the English-language remake Death Note (2017).ĭeath Note was made by Shusuke Kaneko, a Japanese director who emerged with enormous promise during the late 1990s with his revision of the Gamera series in Gamera, The Guardian of the Universe (1995), Gamera 2: Assault of Legion (1996) and Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris (1999), and other impressive effects-driven films such as Cross Fire/Pyrokinesis (2000) and Toho’s Godzilla Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001). There was also an anime series Death Note (2006-7), which lasted for 39 episodes. The manga was then adapted into two movies, Death Note here and Death Note: The Last Name (2006), which came out three months later the same year. Now, Light must find ways of outwitting the increasingly ingenious traps that L lays for him.ĭeath Note is based on a popular manga that appeared in weekly comic-book Shonen Jump between 20, and was later collected in a twelve-volume series.
By tapping into his father’s computer, Light is able to work out what the police are doing and keep ahead of the investigation. L has an uncanny ability to predict each of Light’s moves. The police are contacted by the brilliant detective known only as L, who keeps his identity hidden. Light was visited by the death god Ryuk who had originally dropped the book who then became Light’s constant companion invisible to all others. One day, Light found a book entitled Death Note and discovered that if he wrote anybody’s full name in it they would die of a heart-attack, or by whatever means he described, within moments. In actuality, Kira is Light Yagami, the student son of the lead detective on the Kira investigation. The police try to find Kira’s identity but have no clues. Kira’s victims are always criminals who are guilty but have managed to slip through the system. Across Japan, a mystery figure known only as Kira has the ability to cause people anywhere to suddenly have heart-attacks and die.
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