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20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery · 2h 22m
In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world and wrote them in the Book of Prophecies. Years later in 1997, Kenji becomes a convenience store manager and leads a regular life after giving up his dreams to become a rock star. His boring life is suddenly turned upside down when his old classmate dies mysteriously and an entire family in the neighbourhood disappears. At the same time, a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend emerges and a strange chain of events duplicating exactly the events described in the Book of Prophecies follow. Is this the beginning of the end of the world? Who is Friend?
Cast
Toshiaki Karasawa
Takako Tokiwa
Teruyuki Kagawa
Hidehiko Ishizuka
Takashi Ukaji
Hiroyuki Miyasako
Katsuhisa Namase
Fumiyo Kohinata
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Shiro Sano
Kanji Tsuda
Crew
- Director
- Yukihiko Tsutsumi
- Screenplay
- Yasushi Fukuda, Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa, Yusuke Watanabe
- Director of Photography
- Satoru Karasawa
- Editor
- Nobuyuki Ito
- Producer
- Futoshi Ohira, Morio Amagi, Kiyoshi Inoue, Ryûji Ichiyama, Nobuyuki Iinuma
Details
- Original title
- 20世紀少年 －第1章－ 終わりの始まり
- Release date
- 2008-08-19
- Runtime
- 2h 22m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan, Thailand
- Production
- Cine Bazar, TOHO, Toho Eizo Bijutsu, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Shogakukan, VAP, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, dentsu, Yomiuri Shimbun Company, Office Crescendo, d-rights, Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company, Miyagi Television Broadcasting, Shizuoka Daiichi Television, Hiroshima Telecasting, Fukuoka Broadcasting System, Dynamo Pictures
- Budget
- $20,000,000
- Box office
- $31,244,858