Death Note 2: The Last Name

Death Note 2: The Last Name
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Directed by	Shūsuke Kaneko
Screenplay by	Tetsuya Oishi Shūsuke Kaneko
Based on	Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba Takeshi Obata
Produced by	Toyoharu Fukuda Seiji Okuda Takahiro Satō
Starring	Tatsuya Fujiwara Kenichi Matsuyama Erika Toda Shunji Fujimura Takeshi Kaga Nana Katase Shidou Nakamura Shinnosuke Ikehata
Cinematography	Kenji Takama
Edited by	Yosuke Yafune
Music by	Kenji Kawai
Production companies	Chūkyō Television Broadcasting Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation Horipro Hiroshima Telecasting Konami Digital Entertainment Miyagi Television Broadcasting Nikkatsu Nippon TV Shochiku Shueisha Sapporo Television Broadcasting VAP Warner Bros. Pictures Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation[1]
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates	October 16, 2006 (2006-10-16) (Pusan International Film Festival) November 3, 2006 (2006-11-03) (Japan) October 15, 2008 (2008-10-15) (US)
Running time	139 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	¥5.5 billion (Japan) $54 million (worldwide)

Death Note 2: The Last Name (デスノート the Last name, Desu Nōto Za Rasuto Neimu) is a 2006 Japanese supernatural thriller film directed by Shūsuke Kaneko. The film is the second in a series of live-action Japanese films released in 2006 based on the Death Note manga and anime series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The film primarily centers on a university student named: Light Yagami, who decides to rid the world of the crime element with the help of an otherworldly notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it, under the alias of a controversial serial-killer/vigilante: "Kira", while evading capture from a Tokyo police task-force, led by an enigmatic and highly-intelligent criminal profiler: "L", who is determined to find and apprehend Light. The film was produced by Nippon Television, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures Japan. It was licensed by VIZ Pictures. A spin-off, L: Change the World, was released in 2008. A sequel, Death Note: Light Up the New World, was released in 2016.

On Friday, September 21, 2018, at Anime Weekend Atlanta, FUNimation Entertainment announced that they would license Death Note, Death Note 2: The Last Name, and Death Note: Light Up the NEW World, and said that they would be released on January 22, 2019, on subtitle-only Blu-ray, DVD, and digital combo packs.^[2]