L: Change the World
The 2008 spin-off about L's last 23 days.
L: Change the World is a 2008 Japanese spin-off of the Death Note films, directed by Hideo Nakata, with Kenichi Matsuyama returning as L. It tells an original story set during Death Note 2: The Last Name.
Quick Facts
- Writer
- Tsugumi Ohba
- Takeshi Obata
- Hirotoshi Kobayashi
- Based on
- Death Note
- Tsugumi Ohba
- Takeshi Obata
- Starring
- Kenichi Matsuyama
- Mayuko Fukuda
- Narushi Fukuda
- Shingo Tsurumi
- Youki Kudou
- Sei Hiraizumi
- Bokuzou Masana
- Music
- Kenji Kawai
- Cinematography
- Tokusho Kikumura
- Editing
- Nobuyuki Takahashi
- Director
- Hideo Nakata
- Released
- 9 February 2008
Facts from the source article.
Background
In the final 23 days of his life, L takes on a bioterrorist group planning to wipe out much of humanity with a virus a hundred times more infectious than Ebola. He takes in a boy who survived the virus in a Thai village and Maki Nikaido, a schoolgirl whose scientist father was killed by the group's leader, Dr. Kimiko Kujo.
Did You Know?
- Its novelization was the second best-selling light novel in Japan in 2008.
- Kenichi Matsuyama released a photo book in character as L alongside the film.
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