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Death Note: Light Up the NEW World

Death Note: Light Up the NEW World

20166.32h 14m

Overview

10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru is a member of the Death Note special task force team with 6 other investigators including Matsuda who experienced the Kira case of 10 years ago. Mass murders caused by the death note takes place on Wall Street in the U.S., Shibuya in Japan and other places. World famous private investigator Ryuzaki, who is the rightful successor of L, also investigates the mass murders. They discover that 6 death notes exists in the world. A computer virus called Kira spreads in the world. A message in the Kira virus says to turn in 6 death notes. A person who has 6 death notes overwhelm the world. The confrontation begins between the person who wants Kira’s revival and the people who want to stop it.

Directed by Shinsuke Sato
Written by Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba, Katsunari Mano
Produced by Tadashi Tanaka
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Top Cast

Masahiro Higashide

Masahiro Higashide

Tsukuru Mishima

Sosuke Ikematsu

Sosuke Ikematsu

Ryuzaki

Masaki Suda

Masaki Suda

Yuki Shien

Erika Toda

Erika Toda

Misa Amane

Mina Fujii

Mina Fujii

Sho Nanase

Rina Kawaei

Rina Kawaei

Sakura Aoi

Shido Nakamura

Shido Nakamura

Ryuk (voice)

Sota Aoyama

Sota Aoyama

Tota Matsuda

Eiichiro Funakoshi

Eiichiro Funakoshi

Kenichi Mikuriya

Miyuki Sawashiro

Miyuki Sawashiro

Arma (voice)

Themes & Keywords

based on manga

About Death Note: Light Up the NEW World

Death Note: Light Up the NEW World is a crime, horror, science fiction, thriller film released in 2016 exploring themes of based on manga. Directed by Shinsuke Sato, it stars Masahiro Higashide, Sosuke Ikematsu, Masaki Suda. 10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru is a member of the Death Note special task force team with 6 other investigators including Matsuda who experienced the Kira case of 10 years ago. Mass murders caused by the death note takes place on Wall Street in the U.S., Shibuya in Japan and other places. World famous private investigator Ryuzaki, who is the rightful successor of L, also investigates the mass murders. They discover that 6 death notes exists in the world. A computer virus called Kira spreads in the world. A message in the Kira virus says to turn in 6 death notes. A person who has 6 death notes overwhelm the world. The confrontation begins between the person who wants Kira’s revival and the people who want to stop it.

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