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Death Note
MEANRANK
62/100
Every rating
Sharply split
Lowest is Metacritic users on 31, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 82.
See the most contested films →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 mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.
Details
- Director
- Shusuke Kaneko
- Writer
- Tetsuya Oishi
- Based on
- Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba
- Released
- 17 June 2006
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $29.7M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 2 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (27) →
Awards & nominations
See all 6 →4 wins from 6 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| Award of the Japanese Academy 2007 | Best Supporting Actor | Kenichi Matsuyama | Nominee |
| Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film 2007 | Pegasus Audience Award | Best Film | Winner |
| Hong Kong Film Award 2007 | Best Asian Film | Japan | Nominee |
| Mainichi Film Concours 2007 | Readers' Choice Award | Most Popular Film | Winner |
| Yokohama Film Festival 2007 | Best New Talent | Kenichi Matsuyama | Winner |
| Hochi Film Award 2006 | Best New Actor | Kenichi Matsuyama | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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6 awards — Death Note
×| Pegasus Audience Award | Best Film | Winner |
| Best New Actor | Kenichi Matsuyama | Winner |
| Readers' Choice Award | Most Popular Film | Winner |
| Best New Talent | Kenichi Matsuyama | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actor | Kenichi Matsuyama | Nominee |
| Best Asian Film | Japan | Nominee |