Death Note (2006) 8/10

Starring : Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken’ichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto, Shigeki Hosokawa
Director : Shusuke Kaneko
Running Time : 111 mins

A young man named Light (Fujiwara) discovers a note book that has the power to kill anyone whose name is written in it. Along with the book comes a strange demon only he can see, the true owner of the book who wills Light on to kill, but only those who truly deserve it. As the amount of criminals dying from mysterious heart attacks increases, Light takes on the guise of Kira, a character that the public start to adore due to his public services, and the police begin to hate due to his difficulty in being captured.

Based on the Manga of the same name, Death Note is a great little movie that takes the sort of ideas you find in most Japanese horrors and stretches them into an original movie that combines mystery with the supernatural. The characters are perfectly created, with Light being something of an overzealous teen who thinks he is untouchable and his police officer father wanting desperately for him to follow in his footsteps.

You’ll like this if you liked : Ring