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New Death Note Movie Opens in Japan (But it Only Vaguely has Anything to do with Us)

29/12/2015

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Live Action Death Note movie by AMG Entertainment

Irish Death Note live action film poster by AMG Entertainment (Jan 5th 2016)
Well, this is exciting, isn't it?  We all have our eyes on the Japanese Warner Bros Death Note 2016 live action movie, plus the US remake Death Note film, when suddenly a wild Death Note live action film appears from Ireland!

There has been no heads up about this at all, at least insofar as we've seen at Death Note News - and we like to think we have our finger on the pulse of all things in the franchise. Imagine our surprise then to return from seasonal holidays with the family to find a Death Note movie apparently plucked from thin air and doing the rounds of the Japanese promotional circuit.

This Death Note movie will be released in Japan by AMG Entertainment on January 5th 2016.  It involves a black notebook within which the names of criminals are listed. They soon meet a sticky end in mysterious circumstances - some of which occur whilst the victims are incarcerated in prison cells.

However, that's where the similarity ends.

The story is set in Ireland (or Scotland - reviews diverge on the point) and the protagonist is a man named Six (Liam Cunningham).  He appears as the Mysterious Stranger in a remote village, where rookie cop Rachel (Pollyanna McIntosh) is just starting her first night.  Not a great start to her policing career. Six takes over the minds of anyone with a dodgy past and forces them to basically do gory things to themselves and/or co-operate in their own demise.

Neither Light Yagami nor the rest of the usual Death Note cast are in this story. In fact, it appears to have no official sanction or any other relation to the main Death Note franchise.  At best it's a derivative work or some kind of extended fan work.

Or should that be merely a bad translation?   It seems that this Brian O'Malley directed Death Note movie was originally called Let Us Prey, and that's how it's still listed on IMDb.  Here is its rather gory trailer:
In short, though heavily marketed in Japan as a live action movie called Death Note, it's nothing to do with the manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. It's fundamentally the same horror/slash film marketed in Europe and the US, in 2014, as Let Us Prey.  However, with its Biblical references and Angel of Death/Justice themes, it might appeal to fans of Death Note anyway.


4 Comments
Davideo McIntosh
29/12/2015 22:43:37

Dear Death Note News,
Thank you for this thoughtful piece. I strongly agree with your closing comments and I feel sure that the Death Note fan community will too.
The award-wining European dark thriller Let Us Prey is a natural candidate to pay homage to the Death Note theme in this way.
The character "six" (named after the number of his jail cell), played by "Game of Thrones" star Liam Cunningham is an avenging angel with a very real 'Note' - a black notebook filled with the names of sinners doomed to die. Cunningham gives a rivetingly haunting portrayal of the role. His co-star Pollyanna McIntosh (The Woman, Love Eternal, The Blood Lands ..etc) is a stunning actress who again delivers an electric performance here.
All in all, this is a film that will do no harm to the Death Note franchise and will indeed be both a complement and a compliment to it.
With all best wishes to Death Note fans everywhere, I warmly recommend this movie to them.
David McIntosh (Scottish film fan)

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Nathaniel
31/12/2015 06:40:55

Can anyone say plagiarism? Seriously though, if they have to resort to such underhanded tactics to market their film it's probably rubbish.
Nice article.

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David McIntosh
31/12/2015 12:49:43

Hi Nathaniel.
It can't really be plagiarism, can it, when Let Us Prey was already a well known and well received movie in its own right before release in Japan?
It was the Number One movie on Netflix this Autumn.
Why not watch it and judge for yourself?
Best?
David

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