2016 Death Note Film's Teaser Shows Main Characters

The official website of Death Note Light up the NEW world, this year's live-action Death Note sequel film, began streaming a teaser for the film on Wednesday.

Text: 10 years since the legendary movie.
Light: I am Kira.
L: You are just a simple killer.
Narrator: Something new fell to the Earth:
Narrator: Six Death Notes.
Text: To the new world.
Text: Death Note Task Force: Ace investigator
Text: L's successor: World detective
Text: A believer in Light: Cyber-terrorist
Sakura: I'll show you something more interesting than Kira.
Narrator: Death Note
Ryuk: Humans are so fascinating!

The site revealed the bonuses for those who purchase advance tickets for the film, including a ticket with special art featuring Ryuk, and a folding fan themed after the six Death Notes. Advance tickets will go on sale on Thursday.

The new film will open in Japan on October 29.

In Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's original 2003-2006 supernatural suspense manga, a teenager named Light finds a notebook with which he can put people to death by writing their names. He begins a self-anointed crusade against the criminals of the world, and a cat-and-mouse game begins with the authorities and one idiosyncratic genius detective.

In the new film's story, a highly advanced information society is beset by global cyber-terrorism in 2016. New charismatic figures, who "inherited the DNA" of Light (previously played Tatsuya Fujiwara) and the detective L (Ken'ichi Matsuyama), emerge. The successors of the two geniuses will wage a war over six Death Notes on Earth.

A crucial plot element will be the "Six-Note Rule": Only six Death Notes are allowed to exist at a time in the human world. Of course, the Shinigami (Gods of Death) themselves are limited to the number of Death Notes. Therefore, up to six Shinigami may exist in the human world. This rule existed in the original manga, but previous adaptations in the franchise have not used this rule thus far.

The film will star:
Masaki Suda (live-action Assassination Classroom's Karma Akabane, live-action Kuragehime's Kuranosuke Koibuchi) as Yūgi Shion, a cyber terrorist who reveres Kira.

Sousuke Ikematsu (The Last Samurai's Higen, MOZU's Kazuhiko Shingai) as Ryūzaki, L's successor and a world-famous detective.

Masahiro Higashide (live-action Parasyte's Hideo Shimada, live-action Ao Haru Ride's Kō Mabuchi) as Tsukuru Mishima, an investigator pursuing the Death Notes

Rina Kawaei (Azumi: Bakumatsu-hen stage play) as Sakura Aoi, the most terrible Death Note user ever, an indiscriminate murderer, and the complete opposite of Light Yagami.

Mina Fujii as Shō Nanase, an investigator on the Death Note task force.

Erika Toda as Misa Amane (Toda is reprising the role from the previous live-action films.)

Shidou Nakamura as Ryuk (Nakamura is reprising the role from the previous live-action films and anime.)

Shinsuke Sato (live-action Gantz, Gantz: Perfect Answer, Library Wars films) is directing the film. The film is a "forbidden sequel" to the two earlier live-action Death Note films, 2006's Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name. The film is shooting in overseas locations, and Warner Brothers will distribute.​

 

Haha! Since I enjoyed the original live action death note, I have high hopes for this one. However, Ryuk does look more of something from a horror film now. But oh well. The director did a really good job with the other one. It would be pretty cool for an Anime adaption. Who knows, it could be a possibility one day.

Ahh it's killing Mii to wait!

 

I know... Ryuk certainly looks interesting in the new one. Nothing like the other versions.

I shall stalk your friend and make them... Make you watch it! Haha! Anyway...

 

Hopefully, it wouldn't be Death Note without him and his funny moments.

I did some research and one date has been mentioned, 28-29th of October it should air in Japan. So possibly early next year for the rest of the world.