The films center on Light Yagami, a university student who discovers a supernatural notebook, the titular 'Death Note', dropped on Earth by a shinigami (death god) named Ryuk. The Death Note grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose face they have seen, by writing the victim's name in the notebook. The story follows Light's attempt to create and rule a world cleansed of evil using the notebook, and the complex conflict between him, his opponents and a mysterious detective known to the world only as L
This 4 disc special edition box set comes with both feature films in Blu-ray; Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name plus two discs packed full of extras on DVD.
DEATH NOTE follows the story of Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara - Battle Royale) a brilliant but bored student with great prospects. Life changes dramatically when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god named Ryuk. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies. Light sees an opportunity to rid the world of evil using the powers granted in the Death Note. Police call in the help of the famous, but unconventional detective L when criminals begin to mysteriously die. So begins the battle of wits to see who really is good or evil.
Special Features Disc
- Trailer
- Making of Death Note: The Last Name
- Production Diary Video
- Death Note Press Conference
- Original Japanese Trailers
- Image Gallery
DEATH NOTE THE LAST NAME: Light and L's psychological duel enters a new phase; whoever is careless for even a split second will lose! To complicate things further, Rem, another shinigami brings the second notebook and Misa Amane, a Japanese pop star and Kira worshipper, comes into possession of it. Now becoming a Kira herself, she accepts an offer to have the Eyes of the Death. With the Eyes of the Death one can know the name of any person without being told. Misa and Light begin to work together to find the true name of L...
Special Features Disc
- Trailer
- Making of Death Note: The Last Name
- Production Diary Video
- Death Note Press Conference
- Original Japanese Trailers
- Image Gallery
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's bestselling manga DEATH NOTE, has already spawned an internationally successful anime series, and now its the turn of the live-action feature film. Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara, BATTLE ROYALE) is good looking, a great student, and rich. But it's not enough. His attitude is about to change when a Shinigami death god accidentally drops his notebook down into the human world and into Light's hands. The thing about this notebook is that whoever's name is written down in the book dies. Now the death games begin as Light decides to use his new power to rid the world of evil. But is he doing more harm than good in his quest to kill off every criminal? And when the talented and mysterious L is brought in to solve the mystery behind all this death, will Light be able to outsmart him or end up in prison?
