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Death Note Light up the NEW world Film Has Earned 2 Billion Yen

posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Live-action film franchise has sold more than 10 million tickets

The live-action Death Note Light up the NEW world film has earned 2 billion yen (about US$17.85 million) and sold 1.5 million tickets as of Wednesday. The entire live-action film franchise has sold more than 10 million tickets. The 2006 live-action Death Note film sold 2.27 million tickets, while the 2008 Death Note: The Last Name sequel sold 4.19 million tickets. The 2008 L change the WorLd spinoff sold 2.49 million tickets.

The film also ranked #2 overall (and #1 among debuting films) in its opening weekends in Thailand and Singapore, and are the highest earning Japanese films of the year for both countries. The film opened on November 3 in Thailand, and on November 10 in Singapore.

Death Note Light up the NEW world opened in Japan on October 29. It earned 458,645,800 yen (about US$4.37 million) on 342 screens, and sold 342,309 tickets on its opening weekend.

The film opened in the #1 spot during its opening, beating out Makoto Shinkai's your name. anime film for the top spot. Shinkai's your name. had held the top spot for nine consecutive weeks since it opened in Japan on August 26, though it reclaimed the spot in the following week, with Death Note Light up the NEW world falling to #2 in its second weekend. The film fell from #4 to #7 during its fifth weekend.

The film stars:

  • Masaki Suda (live-action Assassination Classroom's Karma Akabane, live-action Kuragehime's Kuranosuke Koibuchi) as Yūki Shien, a cyber terrorist who reveres Kira.
  • Sōsuke 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, a "Death Note otaku" and 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.
  • Eiichiro Funakoshi as Kenichi Mikuriya, a Supreme Court justice who possesses a Death Note.
  • Erika Toda as Misa Amane (Toda is reprising the role from the previous live-action films.)
  • Shidō Nakamura as Ryuk (Nakamura is reprising the role from the previous live-action films and anime.)
  • Sota Aoyama as Tōta Matsuda (Aoyama is reprising the role from the previous live-action films.)
  • Miyuki Sawashiro as the voice of the new Shinigami character Ama
  • Tori Matsuzaka as the voice of Bepo, a gold-colored Shinigami

In addition, Tatsuya Fujiwara and Ken'ichi Matsuyama both reprised their roles as the self-righteous killer Light Yagami and the legendary detective L, respectively, for the film.

Shinsuke Satō (live-action Gantz, Gantz: Perfect Answer, Library Wars films) directed the film. Namie Amuro performed the film's theme song "Dear Diary," as well as the insert song "Fighter."

Source: Animate Times


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