Japan Synopsis
デスノート the Last name
“The last name to be written in the DEATH NOTE… Whose name will it be?”
In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?
The 2005–2007 Japan Window
364 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Death Note: The Last Name sits at position #171.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Death Note: The Last Name. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Horipro
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2000s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Death Note: The Last Name premiered. 1020 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 20m runtime, production spent $121K per minute on screen and earned $342K per minute back.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #2,301 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (50th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Among Japan Fantasy productions specifically: #817 of 1,274 (top 64%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Production Companies | Horipro, Konami, Nikkatsu Studio, Nikkatsu Corporation, Nippon Television Network Corporation |
| Runtime | 2h 20m |
| Release Date | October 28, 2006 |
| IMDb | tt0810827 |
| Official Site | wwws.warnerbros.co.jp |