L: Change the World
L: Change the World (stylized as L: change the WorLd) is a 2008 Japanese thriller film and a spin-off to the Death Note film series. Although the film is inspired by the manga Death Note that was written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, it follows an original storyline. It is set during the events of Death Note 2: The Last Name.
Plot
In the final 23 days of L's life, he takes on one final case involving a bioterrorist group that aims to wipe out much of humanity with a virus. The virus has an infection rate that is one hundred times the infection rate of the Ebola virus. During this case, he takes a young boy with a gift for calculations, the sole survivor of the virus's use in a village in Thailand, and an elementary school student named Maki Nikaido under his wing.
More details
author | Tsugumi Ohba |
---|---|
contentLocation | Thailand |
director | Hideo Nakata |
events | epidemic terrorism |
genre | horror live-action thriller |
keywords | arrest bioterrorist chocolate bar eat ebola virus elementary school end fbi fbi agent hatred hear infect kidnap kill nate river near record run run away sole survivor solve survive virus young boy |
musicBy | Kenji Kawai |
producer | Nobuhiro Iizuka Seiji Okuda Tadashi Tanaka Takahiro Kobashi Takahiro Sato |
productionCompany | Horipro Nikkatsu Nippon TV Shochiku Shueisha VAP Warner Bros. Pictures Japan Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation |
publisher | Warner Bros. Pictures Japan |
theme | action japanese terrorism |