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The Japanese production L Change the World captures the eventful last days of the famed Death Note investigator.

LEAVING his underground investigation headquarters, the unflappable, reclusive detective takes the train, takes imperilled children under his wing and even tries to jump onto a departing airplane during the last 23 days of his life in the Death Note spin-off, L Change the World.

The success of the big hits of 2006, Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name, which raked in 8bil yen (about RM250mil) at the box office, was attributed largely to the original manga’s intriguing story about an unholy notebook whose owner can kill people by writing their names in it.

In Death Note, Kenichi Matsuyama gave a strong performance in the role of L, a super-smart private detective fighting a psychological war against a serial killer who uses the notebook to kill criminals in a misguided effort to cleanse the world. And now, the spin-off L Change the World.

The movie portrays the last 23 days of L’s life, which were not depicted in Death Note: The Last Name, and focuses on his very last job – preventing a bioterrorism plot to use a deadly virus cooked up by a virologist working with a terrorist group.

In Last Name, L determines his own destiny with the notebook by writing that he will peacefully die 23 days later – the Death Note’s maximum period for controlling people’s deaths – as the only measure to protect his life from the serial killer who tries to find L’s real name to kill him with the notebook.

“In L Change the World, I wanted to portray L’s human side, which was not shown in the Death (more…)