taken from the cover
Exceeding 24.5 million copies sold the bestseller comic "DEATH NOTE" is finally adopted into a series of live-action feature films as DEATH NOTE!
"DEATH NOTE" with its shocking contents in the unique world of its own, the comic immedieately captured the hearts of the readers, created a sensation as soon as the serial on WEekly Shonen Jump started, and has become a best seller all over in the world.
Weary Shinigami the death dropped a notebook in the human world where a weary genius Light Yagami picked it up. "The human whose name is written in this note shall die" it said....It was the notebook of death that determined people's death.....
DIRECTOR: Shusuke Kaneko
CAST: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama
taken from Wikipedia
General changes
----There is no time jump, so the events of the movies all happen over the same time span as the first half of the manga.
----Instead of the Death Note being passed to Higuchi, it was passed to Takada, who killed her predecessor and became the anchor woman. After being captured by the Kira Investigation Team in the Sakura TV Station, she is killed by Light after he regains his memories in a manner similar to how he killed Higuchi in the manga.
----A movie-exclusive character, Shiori Akino ( Akino Shiori?) is introduced as Light's girlfriend. Teru Mikami, Near, and Mello do not appear in the movies.
Exceeding 24.5 million copies sold the bestseller comic "DEATH NOTE" is finally adopted into a series of live-action feature films as DEATH NOTE!
"DEATH NOTE" with its shocking contents in the unique world of its own, the comic immedieately captured the hearts of the readers, created a sensation as soon as the serial on WEekly Shonen Jump started, and has become a best seller all over in the world.
Weary Shinigami the death dropped a notebook in the human world where a weary genius Light Yagami picked it up. "The human whose name is written in this note shall die" it said....It was the notebook of death that determined people's death.....
DIRECTOR: Shusuke Kaneko
CAST: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kenichi Matsuyama
taken from Wikipedia
General changes
----There is no time jump, so the events of the movies all happen over the same time span as the first half of the manga.
----Instead of the Death Note being passed to Higuchi, it was passed to Takada, who killed her predecessor and became the anchor woman. After being captured by the Kira Investigation Team in the Sakura TV Station, she is killed by Light after he regains his memories in a manner similar to how he killed Higuchi in the manga.
----A movie-exclusive character, Shiori Akino ( Akino Shiori?) is introduced as Light's girlfriend. Teru Mikami, Near, and Mello do not appear in the movies.
