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20th Century Boys (live-action movie)

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Alternative title:
Niju Seiki Shōnen (Japanese)
Twentieth Century Boys
20世紀少年 (Japanese)
Plot Summary: Kenji and his friends start to notice a series of odd occurences related to their childhood. A mysterious cult-leader named "friend" is out to destroy the world, and it has something to do with Kenji's childhood memories. (from manga)
Production cost: ¥60,000,000,000 (entire trilogy)
Vintage: 2008-08-30
Premiere date:
2008-08-30 (Japan - Part 1)
2008-10-16 (Singapore - Part 1)
2009-01-31 (Japan - Part 2)
2009-07-09 (Singapore - Part 2)
2009-08-29 (Japan - Part 3)
2010-01-28 (Singapore - Part 3)
2010-01-29 (Italy, Future Film Festival)
Ending Theme:
"20th Century Boy" by T.REX
Official website:
20th Century Boys | Viz Pictures
20世紀少年 (Japanese)
Review:
20th Century Boys 1 (live action) DVD (Jan 9, 2010)
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DVD (Region 1)
    20th Century Boys 1 - Beginning of the End (DVD 1) 2009-12-15 (from $19.98)
    20th Century Boys 2 - The Last Hope (DVD 2) 2010-02-16 (from $18.02)
    20th Century Boys 3 - Redemption (DVD 3) 2010-06-01 (from $19.98)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Script: Takashi Nagasaki
Original creator: Naoki Urasawa
Director of Photography: Satoru Karasawa
Executive producer: Seiji Okuda
Producer:
Morio Amagi (Cine Bazar)
Nobuyuki Iinuma (Nippon TV)
Ryūji Ichiyama (市山竜次; Office Crescendo)

Chief Executive Producer:
Fumihiro Hirai (VAP)
Kazutoshi Wadakura (Cine Bazar)
Noboru Ootsuki (Yomiuri Shimbun)
Nobuhito Nagasaka (Office Crescendo)
Osamu Kamei (Shogakukan)
Shin'ichirō Nishigaki (Yomiuri TV)
Tooru Itabashi (d-rights)
Tōru Horikoshi (Nippon TV)
Yoshishige Shimatani (TOHO)
Yūji Shimamoto (Dentsu)
Co-Producer:
Futoshi Ohira (Nippon TV; Part 1)
Shin Ōmura (Shogakukan)
Composite: Kazuhide Kawashima (DYNAM Pictures; Parts 1-2)
Original Music: Ryōmei Shirai
Planning: Takashi Nagasaki
Airi Taira as Endo Kanna
Etsushi Toyokawa as Occho
Toshiaki Karasawa as Endo Kenji

Arata Furuta as Haru Namio
Hidehiko Ishizuka as Maruo
Hitomi Kuroki as Endo Kiriko
Kuranosuke Sasaki as Fukube
Shirō Sano as Yanbo & Mabo
Takako Tokiwa as Yukiji
Teruyuki Kagawa as Yoshitsune

Bengal as Orico CEO
Dave Spector as Commentator (ep 1)
Holly Kaneko as
Newscaster
Propaganda Voice
Kenichirō Tanabe as Ujiki
Kōichi Yamadera as Yuichi "Konchi" Konno (present)
Masahiro Kōmoto as Kanna's teacher
Miyako Takeuchi as Setsuko Ichihara
Naoko Ken as Jiji Baba
Naomasa Musaka as Father Nitani
Naoto Takenaka as Pierre Ichimonji
Sakae Umezu as Théâtre de l'Odéon Man (ep 2)
Samat Sangsangium as Thai Mafia Boss Chaipon
Tadashi Nakamura as Fujiyama Travel (ep 1)
Takashi Ukaji as Masaaki Shimon (Mon-chan)
Zhao-Rong Chen as Chinese Mafia Boss Wang

Kai Atō
Japanese companies
English staff
English cast
(none)
English companies
Distributor: Warner Home Video (United States and Canada)
Licensed by: Viz Media
French staff
French cast
Translation: Yukio Reuter
Marie Diot as Yukiji
Rémi Caillebot as
Britney
Detective Chono
French companies
(none)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director: Azucena Díaz (Spain dub)
Isabel Valls as Kanna Endo (Spain dub)
Jordi Boixaderas as Otcho (Spain dub)
Sergio Zamora as Kenji Endo (Spain dub)

Aleix Estadella as Haru Namio (Spain dub)
Ana Pallejà as Yukiji (Spain dub)
Carmen Ambrós as Kiriko Endo (Spain dub)
Javier Roldán as Yoshitsune (Spain dub)

Alfonso Vallés as God (Spain dub)
Ana María Camps as Sadakiyo (Spain dub; child)
Anna Orra as Kenji Endo (Spain dub; child)
Azucena Díaz as Chiyo (Spain dub)
Carles Lladó as Kakuta (Spain dub)
Carmen Ambrós as Yoshitsune (Spain dub; child)
Cesc Martínez as Masato Ikegami (Spain dub)
Cristal Barreyro as Sanae (Spain dub)
Domenech Farell as Chaipong (Spain dub)
Eduard Itchart as Mariah (Spain dub)
Félix Benito as Father Nitani (Spain dub)
Joaquín Díaz as Grandfather (Spain dub)
Jorge Varela as Narrator (Spain dub)
José Antequera as Cho (Spain dub)
Luis Grau as Wang (Spain dub)
Manuel Gimeno as Friend (Spain dub)
Marc Gómez as
Alumnus (Spain dub)
Kenji Endo (Spain dub; teen)
Maria Rosa Guillén as Maruo (Spain dub; child)
Masumi Mutsuda as Detective Chono (Spain dub)
Núria Trifol as Koizumi (Spain dub)
Ramón Hernández as Konno (Spain dub)
Ricky Coello as Sadakiyo (Spain dub)
Spanish companies
Broadcaster: Canal+ Xtra (Spain)
Dubbing Studio: Dubbing Films (Spain dub)
Licensed by: Mediatres Estudio (Spain)
Subtitles: Bbo Subtitulado (Spain)
German staff
German companies
(none)
Distributor: Anime-Virtual
German cast
(none)

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