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Light Up the New World - Death Note 2016 Gains an Official Title for Release

22/4/2016

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Ready to know the name of the movie that we're all going to see in October 2016?  (Or as close as it may be coherently located within our own neck of the globe.)  Ready?  *Drum-roll*  Death Note: Light Up the NEW World.

Until now, this Shinsuke Sato directed Death Note movie has gloried under the working moniker of Death Note 2016.  We always knew it would change with the only bets being about how bad that final title might be, for this live-action sequel to the earlier trilogy of Japanese movies.  All things considered, Death Note: Light Up the New World isn't too bad.  Not when compared to some that we'd contemplated here ourselves.

Perhaps a little cheesy, with the strong potential for disappointment, as we doubt very much that we'll see much of Light Yagami beyond reference or the occasional flashback.  Probably just the former.

Warner Bros Japan announced the film's final and official retitle with a poster featuring its three main cast-members:
Death Note: Light Up the New World first poster
This poster announcing a name-change for Death Note 2016, first appeared in the Japanese press on April 8th 2015, trickling out across the world thereon.

It depicts new characters Yugi Shion, Tsukuru Mishima and Ryūzaki perched on chairs above a scattering of six death notes, topped by that fruity shinigami favourite - a shiny, new, red apple.

(Be still your immortal beating heart, Ryuk.  If we put together to get you a whole basket of the stuff, would you go and be bored somewhere else instead?  Like another planet or plane of existence entirely, please. A few Granny Smiths really aren't worth the wanton destruction of humanity, with a theatre of war on a global scale enacted in genocide; forced rendering of all our civil and human rights; terror; and enslavement.  Do it for oil, like everybody else.)

Reflected within the polished floor-tiles, we see the faded, pixelating visages of their predecessors - Light Yagami and L - both deceased with ten years standing between their stories told in the first movies, and the present day recounted in this.

Death Note: Light Up the New World will open in Japanese cinemas on October 29th 2016.
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Film Still of Yūgi Shion Released from Death Note 2016 Live-Action Movie

5/4/2016

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Warner Bros. Japan has made public another movie photograph from Death Note 2016.  This time featuring Light Yagami-wannabe Yūgi Shion played by Masaki Suda.  As with all the others, there's no actual context to it, just to keep us all guessing what is going on.
Death Note News Masaki Suda as Yūgi Shion
Yūgi Shion is a cyber-savvy hacker, state-sponsored (new information there!) yet on the trail of Death Notes as they fall across the globe.  Kira was his hero and he wants to complete the erstwhile God/Murderer's mission as best he can.  For the moment, that apparently involves messing electronically with officers from the Death Note Counter Measure Headquarters Special Team, as they go about their investigation.
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Japanese Movie Death Note 2016 Features on a BRITISH Film Magazine Cover

27/2/2016

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Giving hope to all of us global audience types, that Death Note 2016 will quickly migrate from Japan to our own screens, is a rather random movie magazine cover from Great Britain. 

Dominated by a mostly monochromatic photograph, the front of Screen International's special February 11th 2016 edition features next generation L clone Ryuzaki (Sousuke Ikematsu), in what appears to be a pristine prison cell.  He is slumped on a closed-lid toilet seat, wearing a hyottoko mask - as previously donned by his genetic forebear L in the first two Death Note movies, when the detective sought to conceal his own identity from Misa Amane.

The legend slanted on the floor is in English and reads, 'The new saga begins.'  Whilst a larger one, in the familiar Death Note font and a more than familiar first rule, floats alongside the actor telling us, 'Death Note.  The human whose name is written in this note shall die.'  The implication is clear. L's biologically cloned successor isn't going to make it to the closing credits either.

Though none of us believe it. The danger point is too blatant and too premature.
Screen International Death Note cover Feb 11th 2016

Screen International Death Note cover,
as Tweeted by Warner Bros Japan
Berlin Film Festival Screen International Death Note cover, as distributed at Berlin Film Festival

Berlin Film Festival Screen International
Death Note
cover, as distributed on the day
This wasn't a British magazine found generally upon the shelves of newsagents.  It was a private marketing magazine circulating at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.  Only 10k were ever printed and they were distributed to attendees of the opening day on February 11th 2016.

The clue to why lies in the logo of Death Note 2016 copyright holders Nippon TV prominently displayed in the bottom right hand corner, alongside details for enquiring about world sales.  Ryuzaki may look slumped, but that merely serves to turn his whole body towards the lower logo and its missives.  His bulging hyottoko eyes are trained upon it.  The floor legend leads the eye straight into said inquiry details for the international distribution of Death Note 2106.

After all was is a marketing fly cover (wrapped around the film magazine's actual cover), which must have knocked NTV back a pretty penny! Therefore knowing that a representative was waiting - at booth 111 of the European Film Market in Martin Gropius Bau - was the actual point. 

Now all we need to know is whether anyone from our own respective countries nipped on over to stand 111, and if a deal was struck.

Incidentally, Screen International has its Feb 11th 2016 Death Note Berlin Film Festival cover - plus contents - online for us all to read.
Death Note actress Rina Kawaei on set as Sakura Aoi
In other related news, new casting Rina Kawaei has been Tweeting herself (February 24th 2016) on set, during filming of Death Note.  She was basically telling her fans that she was playing Sakura Aoi, and it had just been publicly announced by the studio.

While four days previously, on February 20th, her actor colleague Masaki Suda celebrated his 23rd birthday.  He was surprised at his desk, while performing his role as hacker and Kira worshipper Yūgi Shion, with something which obviously delighted him.  Unfortunately we can't get a decent enough translation to find out what!  Paper lanterns, perchance?
Yūgi Shion actor Masaki Suda celebrates 23rd birthday on Death Note set

Death Note 2016 movie, official Twitter (Feb 20th 2016)
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Death Note Movie Makers Gearing Up for Filming

6/2/2016

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We have two Death Note films coming this year.  The proof is in the Tweeting.
(Incidentally the actual date for Japan's Death Note 2016 movie release is September 13th 2016, according to IMDb.)

Japanese movie Death Note 2016 starts filming

'Death Note 2016 begins! Thank you' reads this Tweet
from the official Japanese Warner Bros account
on January 6th 2016 - presumably referring to filming
Meanwhile, over on the official Death Note 2016 website:
Death Note 2016 lead actors
 The recently announced stars of Death Note 2016 - Sōsuke Ikematsu, Masahiro Higashide and Masaki Suda - have been commenting on their new roles.

Masahiro, who is playing Death Note researcher and investigator Tsukuru Mishima, notes that he's grown up knowing this story.  Therefore it's difficult not to be influenced by what has gone before; nor to avoid the pressure in getting it right.

He views the latest story as a three-way, intertwined battle between geniuses. He is enjoying making the movie and hopes that we enjoy watching it, including those discovering the story for the first time now.

'New L' Sōsuke - aka Ryūzaki - is also feeling the pressure: to live up to the legacy left by Ken'ichi Matsuyama in the earlier movies. He feels excited about filming and notes that every day the cast are directed in exceeding the standard of the day before.

This new Death Note story, he feels, contains the central message that human beings are weak and foolish creatures.

Masaki equally remembers when he was in the audience watching earlier Death Note live-action films. That makes it all the more thrilling to be starring in one now.

He sees in his own legacy a hint of Mello and Near in the original manga, insofar as his cyber-terrorist Kira worshipper character Yūgi Shion - plus the parts played by the other two - represent the successors, heirs or children of Light and L.  This is the movie equivalent of a Death Note second arc.

He hopes that their 'second half' story will surpass expectations laid down by the first wave of Japanese live-action Death Note movies ten years ago.

Personally they would have had my (tentative) vote straight out, if they'd just HAD Mello in one of these live-action movies.  And I don't mean disguised as a young schoolgirl.  We're all looking at you, L: Change the World and Maki.
Reading Death Note Adam Wingard Director

US live action Death Note director Adam Wingard,
re-reading the Black Edition,
as per his Tweet on December 10th 2015
Adam followed his with this Tweet, also dated December 10th 2015:
Death Note director Adam Wingard Black Edition luggage Tweet Dec 10th 2015
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The complete Black Edition Death Note, as read by Adam Wingard,
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Live Action Movie Cast of Death Note 2016 Revealed

4/2/2016

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The three stars of the forthcoming Japanese movie sequel in the Death Note series have just been announced. Following on from Death Note, Death Note: the Last Name and L: Change the World, this latest film outing is tentatively called Death Note 2016.

It will feature three brand new characters to add to the canon dramatis personae:

Ryūzaki


Also known as L mark 2 (or should that be mark 4, seeing as we have to account for Near, Mello and Matt), Ryūzaki is a world famous, top-class detective lured into the spotlight by the emergence of no less than SIX Death Notes.

Shinigami are getting very careless these days. Or bored.

However, Ryūzaki isn't merely a Wammy kid grown old enough to get chucked onto the front line.  Like all the rest.  He's legitimately an heir of L, bloodline, genes and all.

No, this isn't a secret love-child that we've uncovered here. It's much worse than that.

Apparently L left behind a sample of his DNA, so that he might be cloned, into a global detective, called Ryūzaki.

This new Death Note character will be played by Sōsuke Ikematsu, known to the cinema going public as Higen in The Last Samurai and Kazuhiko Shingai in MOZU.
Sōsuke Ikematsu as Ryuzaki in Death Note 2016
Masahiro Higashide as Tsukuru Mishima in Death Note 2016 movie

Tsukuru Mishima


Ryūzaki is aided and abetted in this endeavour - and no doubt given the heads up re a sudden epidemic of Death Notes - by police researcher and archivist Tsukuru Mishima.

The spiritual (as opposed to genealogical) successor to Soichiro Yagami and his crew, Tsukuru Mishima specializes in artefacts from the Kira case that went before.

Ten years previously to be precise.

Therefore the investigator is well placed to recognize the reality of each new notebook dropped by a Death God in various locations around the globe.  He becomes the go to expert for all other authorities within stricken nations.

Or more likely, he does whatever Ryūzaki ends up directing him to do.

Tsukuru Mishima will be played by Masahiro Higashide.  The actor's other roles include Hideo Shimada in Parasyte and Kō Mabuchi in Ao Haru's Ride.

Yūgi Shion

And what's a Death Note story without a Kira?  Or in this instance, a Kira worshipping cyber-terrorist and/or hacker named Yūgi Shion.

Me and popular media don't often agree upon what constitutes a 'cyber-terrorist', but this time we may be in accord. 

Yūgi Shion uses his computing skills and internet presence to not only locate all fallen shinigami notebooks, but also has some role in co-ordinating events.

He may or not be the individual already announced - in a snippet from the Death Note 2016 movie trailer - as being cloned from a shard of Light Yagami DNA.  Though how anyone got that is anybody's guess, particularly as they had to get through Near to reach the corpse.

Unless it was Near.  In fact, where is Near in this movie plotline now?!

Oh.  Movies.  He's an infant maths genius just entering Wammy's House as L was killed.  Not manga instigator of the Yellow Box pwning at all.  He should be just about old enough to be, well, Ryūzaki by now. Because the new L isn't a ten year old either.

Back to the actual plot - Masaki Suda will be playing Yūgi Shion; an actor also known as Karma Akabane in Assassination Classroom and Kuranosuke Koibuchi in Kuragehime.
Masaki Suda as Yūgi Shion Death Note 2016
Directed by Shinsuke Sato, the fourth in the Death Note trilogy (as was) is confirmed for theatrical release in Autumn 2016.  It is currently being filmed in Kobe - with one or two sneaky night shoots in the middle of Tokyo and occasional suburbs.  Moreover, there will be some international scenes, which will be filmed actually in the relevant foreign parts. 

Any tremors of excitement building over this out there?
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