Death Note (2017)
- Rating
- TV-MA
- Genre
- Thriller, Horror
- Release Date
- August 25, 2017
- Director
- Adam Wingard
- Written by
- Jeremy Slater
- Cast
- Shea Whigham, Willem Dafoe, Nat Wolff, Margaret Qualley, Lakeith Stanfield, Paul Nakauchi
- Latest News
- Synopsis
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Synopsis
Based on the famous Japanese manga written by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, Death Note follows a high school student who comes across a supernatural notebook, realizing it holds within it a great power; if the owner inscribes someone's name into it while picturing their face, he or she will die. Intoxicated with his new godlike abilities, the young man begins to kill those he deems unworthy of life.