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2016 Death Note Film's English, Indonesian-Subtitled Teaser Streamed

Indonesian film distributor Encore Films Indonesia began streaming an English- and Indonesian-subtitled teaser for Death Note Light up the NEW world, this year's live-action Death Note sequel film, last Friday.

The film will open in Indonesia on November 23.

The new film opened in Japan on October 29. A three-episode prequel mini-series titled Death Note NEW GENERATION premiered on Hulu on September 16, and all three episodes are streaming now. The film topped the Japanese box office in its first weekend, ending the your name. anime film's nine-week streak. The film opened on 342 screens, earning 458,645,800 yen (about US$4.37 million) during its opening weekend and selling 342,309 tickets.

The film stars:

• Masaki Suda (live-action Assassination Classroom's Karma Akabane, live-action Kuragehime's Kuranosuke Koibuchi) as Yūki Shien, a cyber terrorist who reveres Kira.
• Sōsuke Ikematsu (The Last Samurai's Higen, MOZU's Kazuhiko Shingai) as Ryūzaki, L's successor and a world-famous detective.
• Masahiro Higashide (live-action Parasyte's Hideo Shimada, live-action Ao Haru Ride's Kō Mabuchi) as Tsukuru Mishima, a "Death Note otaku" and an investigator pursuing the Death Notes
• Rina Kawaei (Azumi: Bakumatsu-hen stage play) as Sakura Aoi, the most terrible Death Note user ever, an indiscriminate murderer, and the complete opposite of Light Yagami.
• Mina Fujii as Shō Nanase, an investigator on the Death Note task force.
• Eiichirō Funakoshi as Kenichi Mikuriya, a Supreme Court justice who possesses a Death Note.
• Erika Toda as Misa Amane (Toda is reprising the role from the previous live-action films.)
• Shidō Nakamura as Ryuk (Nakamura is reprising the role from the previous live-action films and anime.)
• Sota Aoyama as Tōta Matsuda (Aoyama is reprising the role from the previous live-action films.)
• Miyuki Sawashiro as the voice of the new Shinigami character Ama.

In addition, Tatsuya Fujiwara and Ken'ichi Matsuyama both reprise their roles as the self-righteous killer Light Yagami and the legendary detective L, respectively, for the film.

Shinsuke Satō (live-action Gantz, Gantz: Perfect Answer, Library Wars films) directed the film. Namie Amuro performed the film's theme song "Dear Diary," as well as the insert song "Fighter." The film was shot in overseas locations, and Warner Brothers is distributing.

The film is a "forbidden sequel" to the two earlier live-action Death Note films, 2006's Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name. In the new film's story, a highly advanced information society is beset by global cyber-terrorism in 2016. New charismatic figures, who "inherited the DNA" of Light (previously played Tatsuya Fujiwara) and the detective L (Ken'ichi Matsuyama), emerge. The successors of the two geniuses wage a war over six Death Notes on Earth.

A crucial plot element is the "Six-Note Rule": only six Death Notes are allowed to exist at a time in the human world. Of course, the Shinigami (Gods of Death) themselves are limited to the number of Death Notes. Therefore, up to six Shinigami may exist in the human world. This rule existed in Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's original manga, but previous adaptations in the franchise have not used this rule thus far.