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Asaka Seto | ... | |
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Shigeki Hosokawa | ... | |
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Erika Toda | ... | |
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Shunji Fujimura | ... | |
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Takeshi Kaga | ... | |
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Yû Kashii | ... | |
| Shidô Nakamura | ... |
Ryuk
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Ryôhei Abe |
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| Michael Adamthwaite | ... |
FBI Agent Raye Iwamatsu
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Sota Aoyama | ... | |
| Ashleigh Ball | ... |
Shiori Akino
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| Chris Britton | ... |
Soichiro Yagami
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| Shannon Chan-Kent | ... |
Misa Amane
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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 perpetrator. An all out battle between the greatest minds on earth begins, the winner controlling the world. Written by Ryuzaki
Just returned from debut of Death Note, and surprisingly I enjoyed it. Manga to big screen adaptations don't always do so well, so I wasn't getting my hopes up over this. All the main characters are portrayed very well by the cast. Yes, even Tatsuya Fujiwara did a great job as the stories protagonist, Yagami Light. However, his rival, played by Ken'ichi Matsuyama was amazing. Completely captured the world's greatest detective's every mannerism with ease. But the true star of this 2 part story is definitely Light's shinigami, Ryuuk. Outstanding job by the CGI crew, and Ryuuk's voice was just as would be imagined in the manga. Can't really give too much away because I'd hate to spoil it for anybody who hasn't read the manga (that being said, definitely read the manga to see what was changed, in my opinion, the changes were overall good, not great, but it won't make you angry) . I guess the main question on everybody's mind would be is the movie better than the manga? No, but in a (about) 2 hour film you couldn't do much better with story. Well worth checking out.