Death Note

"The Human whose name is written in this note shall die"

I watched Death Note years ago and thought it was a pretty good film. I re-watched it the other day with my boyfriend and noticed that the effects are not that good but i still enjoy the film a lot even if its slightly different to the anime and manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.
Death Note is a series of two live-action Japanese films released in 2006 and a spin off called L:Changed the world in 2008.Its a Detective fiction, Psychological thriller and Supernatural film.And was directed by Shusuke Kaneko and produced by Nippon Television and distributed by Warner Bros. Picture Japan.

Two of the main actorsTatsuya Fujwara is a Japanese actor and plays the character Light Yagami. He is also known as Shuga Nanahara as the lead role in Battle Royal, Rikuhiko in the Incite Mill and Shishio Makoto in the Rurouni Kenshin films. The First film is about a university student who wants to rid the earth of evil by using a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it.
I love the character Ryuk and his obsession with Apples he decided to drop his Death Note on earth because he was bored and finds humans entertaining.

   Tatsuya Fujwara    and   Kenichi Matsuyama

Kenichi Matsuyama is also a Japanese actor and plays the character L. He also plays Toho from the film Norwegian Wood (also a book). He plays the role of  Kenichi Mouri from the Tv Drama Gokusen.

*SPOILERS*

Light Yagami is a first year law student who discovers a notebook, known as the "Death Note" dropped by the Shinigami Ryuk. I havnt read the Manga yet but i have watched the anime and thought Tatsuya character as Light was very convincing.

The Death Note instructions claim that if a persons name is written while picturing that persons face, that person will die. After Light experiments with the Death Note, he realize it is real. When Light meets the previous owner of the Death Note, a shinigami called Ryuk, Light wants to become "God of the new world" by passing judgment on those who are evil or get in his way. Light begins to use the Death Note to kill Criminals who didn't get punished by the Japanese justice system but turns into a serial killer known as "Kira"

You always see L eating sweet things like cake or drinking sweet coffee or tea. He also has a peculiar behavior, he sits in unusual potions, always wears the same outfit,holds things by their corners and is always barefoot. I thought Kenichi captured L's character perfectly with his odd behavior. 

As Kira continues to kill, some people in the Japan society come to see Kira as a righteous figure. The Interpol launches an investigation of the murders. The case attracts the attention of L a world famous detective. L confronts Kira through a television broadcast using a convict who is on death row to say he is L, by doing this he angers Kira by calling him immature and saying he is far worse then the criminals he has killed. L also finds out from the broadcast that kira can kill without lifting a finger and only by knowing the name and face of the victim.

L and Light then begin a game of cat and mouse to see who can out smart who first.

Takeshi Kage as Soichiro Lights Farther

As the investigation goes on L figures out the Kira is a college student and Light finds out that his farther Soichiro is in charge of the Kira case so this would give him an advantage by looking at the police database to see if L is getting closer to finding him out but this brings up suspicion with L that Kira is some how involved with someone on the investigation. L decides to have the family's of the people helping on the investigation followed and Light notices this and comes up with a plan to find out who it is.

Ryuk Voiced by Shidou Nakamura

Light writes in the Death Note "Kiichiro Osoreda, Car accident. On March 29th 2006 he gets on the 10:12 Kyonan bus. He carries a gun with 8 bullets ad tries to rob the bus but he sees a horrifying phantom and starts to fire at it. With no bullets left, he hurries off the bus.

By doing this the events on the bus came true Light finds out the The guy following him is an FBI agent called Raye Iwamatsu.

Shingeki Hosokawa as Raye Iwamatsu

Once Light found out his name he uses this as his advantage and gets the agent to wright the other names of the FBI agents following the other members of each family on some paper torn out of the Death Note so he doesn't look suspicious when he kills Raye Iwamatsu. To do this he wrights in the Note book saying , Heart attack. Clears his schedule, and rides the train from Akasakabashi. Gets on the 10:14 train from the last door of the forth car. He takes the manila envelope and dies three seconds after getting off."

 Asaka Sseto as Naomi Misora 

Naomi Misora is the fiance of Raye. She decided to follow Raye when he started to act suspicious and saw his death and starts to blame Kira. She decides to take part in the Kira case, and finds out who he was assigned to follow. While attempting to get in touch with L she meets Light and gives him a false name as she is suspicious of him but he was at an advantage because he had already seen her at the train station were her fiance died and she told Light that she was his fiance. Light knew for weddings you have to give your real name and that churches are open to the public so he found her real name there. Light feels that Naomi is getting close to figuring out who Kira really is so he wants to get rid of her and comes up with another plan using the Death Note.

Yuu Kashii as Shiori Akinoi Lights girlfriend.

Light wrote in the Note book "Naomi Misora, Suicide. Arranges to meet with her fiances killer. Takes his girlfriend hostage at the Omei Art Gallery. She makes the girlfriend call him on April 15th, 14:15. She then contacts a third party, the investigation team and tries to make the killer confess as they watch. At 14:55, she stops the hostage from running away but in the moment of madness, ends up shooting herself." He also wrote next to Naomi's page "Shiori Akino, Killed by third person. Gets kidnapped at the Omei Art Gallery. On April 15th 14:15, She is forced to phone her boyfriend. She gets away as the police break in. But at 14:55, a warning shot hits her and she dies trying to protect her boyfriend."

Lights plan was to kill Naomi and his girlfriend Shiori in front of his eyes so when he asked to join the investigation on capturing Kira every one will sympathies and believe that he can not be Kira.

When Light ask his farther to join the investigation L steps out of the shadows and introduces him self to Light and agrees for him to join the team.

At this point you see Light as something worse then a murder and start to think you want him to get caught.

At the end of this film you also see Mia picking up another death note to lead onto the second film so i will talk about that moment when i do the second one as a blog.

If you have seen Death note tell me what you thought of the film below in the comments :)