Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to ...

Willem Dafoe’s praised role as Ryuk in Death Note won fans over, but the sequel he hoped for is unlikely to ever happen.

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The Film Theorists Posted: April 1, 2025 | Last updated: April 1, 2025 DEATH NOTE is my favorite anime series by a long shot, and that's because it really puts me in a moral quandary.

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Dafoe's voice for Ryuk was the best part of Netflix's live-action Death Note, but did you know that he didn't watch the anime to research for the role?

One day, a notebook suddenly fell in front of her endless worries, and one day it was the legendary magic book "Love Note" that said, "You will be loved by the person who wrote your name." ...