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Audio Format: DD 5.1, DTS 6.1 ES
Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic)
Languages: Japanese, Cantonese
Subtitles: English, Chinese (T)
Region Code: 3
Year Made: 2008
Running Time: 129
Release Date: 06/30/2008
L: Change the WorLd, directed by Hideo Nakata, is a spin-off film of the Death Note movie series. The series is based on the manga Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata. However, this film follows an original storyline.
Ken'ichi Matsuyama reprises his role as L Lawliet from the previous Death Note films. The film chronicles the final 23 days of L's life, and follows L as he solves one final case. L is the protagonist of this film. L has to stop a bioterrorist group that aims to wipe out much of humanity. A virus with ten times the infectiousness of Ebola killed everyone except for one boy in a village in Thailand. L takes the survivor and a junior high school girl named Maki Nikaido under his wing.
Shunji Fujimura also reprises his role as Watari, but, dying in The Last Name, he is dead early in this film. Despite being depicted on the promotional poster, Misa Amane and the Death God Ryuk have brief cameos in the film, appearing on screen for less than thirty seconds each. A video still of Light Yagami is also used in the film.
The film was initially intended to chronicle the events before L Lawliet met Kira, and when Naomi and L worked together. Instead, the film chronicles the last 23 days of L's life, after the Kira/Death Note Saga takes place.
After solving the Kira case, another serious case confronts L and he has only 23 days left to solve it.
A person who obtained the most horrible weapon, "Death God" says the same thing as Kira ... "I am going to change the world". A boy and a girl hold the keys to solving the case and L faces a crisis of global magnitude to protect the kids. He is without his most trusted partner, Watari, and cannot rely on just his superb intellect to solve the case.
What will happen to L? What will change? The 23 days are packed with turns of events even L hims
With the phenomenal success of the Death Note movies in 2006, it's almost a natural reaction to see if another movie could be done to capitalize on the formula's momentum. A direct sequel is ruled out, because of the events that unfurled at the closure of Death Note: The Last Name. But since the character of L (played by heartthrob Kenichi Matsuyama) has proven compelling enough to elicit wistful sighs from fandom, the next best alternative filmmakers can provide, is to create a spin off, just like how Hollywood's Magneto and Wolverine from the X-Men franchise have projects in the works.
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