Death Note (デスノート, Desu Nōto) is a series of live-action Japanese films, including a short film and a miniseries. It is based on the Death Note manga series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The first two films adapt the manga series with some not
Death Note - Desu nôto: Light Up the New World: Directed by Shinsuke Sato. With Masaki Suda, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Miyuki Sawashiro, Masahiro Higashide. An update to the "Death Note" series in which a mysterious notebook contains deadly powers.
Death Note: The Musical is a stage production based on the Death Note manga series. The music was composed by Frank Wildhorn with lyrics by Jack Murphy and script by Ivan Menchell. The musical was originally written in English and translated into Japanes
Despite actually being one of my favourite Japanese character actors and despite the ever-constant levels of exposure I have to the language, I still occasionally falter in so much as remembering Ittoku Kishibe’s name. But the reason for that is simply how highly unusual the name is; a fact...
The reimagining of the cult-favorite Japanese franchise from the global streaming giant is the latest Hollywood stab at a manga adaptation, none of which has yet hit the mark.
"Death Stranding" kills with its new cast additions, as voice acting heavyweights Troy Baker and Emily O'Brien have been confirmed to be part of the game's production. This makes the production value of the AAA gamestaggeringly highwith Hollywood stars like director Guillermo del...
True. That's because the Japanese are not the frontliners in the dash, not for money, but for the post-crash scramble. The BAC has long devised a plan to trigger a world-banking-system collapse. But first, they must get their hands on all the world's gold reserves. The head of ...
Something that caught my attention in this mini-drama is the focus here on a group of elite people who were stuck in between Japanese and Korean culture. It reminds me of Kim Hee Sung in MR. SUNSHINE. These were people who had no love for Japanese occupation but had the benefit of educ...
“the most shocking Anti-Japanese film I have ever seen … true patriotism”(qtd. in Min) and Tony Rayns as seeing the past “clearly and objectively”(“City”). The torrents of views from the other side(s) are best summarized by Shelly Kraicer, noticing that it was “reviled by ...
Kojima hints at some of the challenges he encountered in trying to convince the hierarchy of a Japanese company that the convergence of games and film was achievable, but admits his early requests to put Hollywood actors into games as playable characters were unrealistic and rejected. ...