Death Note L Change The World

L: Change the WorLd (also known as Death Notation: L, Change the Globe and Death Note 3 ) is the third moving picture in the Death Note live-action film series. It is an original spin-off story focusing on L afterward the events of the previous film, Death Annotation: The Concluding Name. Manager Hideo Nakata told The Daily Yomiuri that he wanted to exhibit the "homo side" of L that was not exhibited in the Death Note series.

Two versions of the flick were shown in the United States on April 29 and 30, 2009. The first version of the film shown was in Japanese with English subtitles and the second version shown was dubbed in English with the same voice actors from the English dubbed Expiry Note anime, not including Watari, like the United states of america release of its predecessors. The movie was released on DVD in the Usa on August 18, 2009.

The DVD complete set, released in Japan on June 25, 2008, included making-of footage of the film, marketing campaign footage, a bonus DVD titled "Exterior of File No. fifteen," a short spinoff drama titled "The Homo L Fabricated a Fool of the Most: the File on Police Detective Matsuda," other hidden footage and stills from the pic, and 3 cards depicting promotional images of the flick.

The flick was priced down and reissued on DVD on December 1, 2010. In October 2011, it was reissued on Blu-ray as part of the promotional hype for the release of Expiry Note: Low-cal Up the NEW World.

The film was adapted into a calorie-free novel of the aforementioned name, authored past "M" and published on December 25, 2007, weeks earlier the movie'south premiere.

Plot

The film begins sometime before the events of the first moving-picture show. Naomi Misora and Raye Iwamatsu are on assignment for L in America, and Fifty monitors them through surveillance cameras on his computer. Watari comments that L must really trust Naomi to have her on a second assignment subsequently the LABB example. Equally Naomi makes advances on the current case, Fifty asks Watari to make preparations to go to Nihon because in that location's a 97% chance that Kira is at that place. He's not certain that he'll survive it.

120 days later on, in Thailand, a grouping of people in hazmat suites arrive in a village that's suffering a deadly virus outbreak. As they take blood samples from the infected, F sees what'due south going on and flees the village with a nameless male child who seems to be immune to the virus. The researchers leave and the city is bombed to control the outbreak. The same grouping hunts downward and kills F, just F leaves the male child with a phone number to phone call, along with his personal pendant that reads "F." In Japan, where the Kira instance is ongoing, Watari receives the news that F is expressionless, and L writes in the Death Note that he will dice in 23 days. Fifty then asks Watari to bring in Misa Amane so they can cease the example.

At the Infectious Disease Middle of Asia, a girl named Maki Nikaido is injected with a chemical past her begetter Dr. Kimihiko Nikaido. Subsequently Maki leaves, Dr. Nikaido and Dr. Kimiko Kujo (aka "Grand") get into the Bio-Infection Defense force Ward to examine the virus samples from Thailand, which Washington has sent them. They find that the virus is a highly infectious strain of the influenza crossed with Ebola. Its charge per unit of infection is a 100 times that of the Ebola virus and that it has mutated in the last 20 hours.

Watari dies during the Kira investigation. After the example ends, Ryuk tries to talk L out of burning the notebooks, but L burns them anyway. He emails other Wammy'south Firm members (D, P, Q, Yard, I, E, and Yard) that Watari has passed, and he receives a response from K seconds later that she volition mourn him.

The creators of the virus are revealed to exist members an ecological company and the creators kill the dominate of the company.

L solves a few cases before he dies, he takes the boy under his fly with L and he manages to go the pendant that F gave him, the pendant is revealed to be a video of what he has discovered of the virus.

Dr. Nikaido gives Maki a pendant too and a syringe of what is believed to be the cure to the virus. the ecology company raids the lab that Dr. Nikaido works at and it's revealed that Dr. Kujo is the leader of the of the team that made the virus and that they plan to release it onto the world and cure those who truly care nigh the environment. Dr. Nikaido injects himself with the virus and destroys the cure,upon his asking Dr. Kujo destroys the lab to forestall the virus from spreading. Maki, who saw everything, runs away and confides in 50.

Dr. Kujo contacts L in hopes that he tin discover the missing information. Dr. Kujo's team raids Ls headquarters to notice Maki and excerpt the data from her. In retaliation, Maki injects herself with the syringe that Dr. Nikaido gave her which turns out to be the virus. Nevertheless, Maki shows no signs of infection. L, the boy, and Maki escape and are joined by an FBI amanuensis named Suruga equally they escape in their mobile headquarters.

L hacks and deletes all the information that Dr. Kujos team have and he departs from Suruga. Buying a modest device, Fifty notices that the boy has an interest in toys. L goes to visits Dr. Nikaidos banana Dr. Koichi Matsudo in hopes of finding a cure. Along the way Dr. Kujos team trick the public into thinking that Maki is infected and they are forced to cycle the rest of the way.

Once they accomplish the lab the boy comes solves an equation that he saw and came up with the number 13:11 which L deduced to MK which is an abbreviation of Midkine. They exam the boy for midkine due to him being the sole survivor of the village. Afterwards a picnic that Maki had with 50 and the boy, Maki runs away in club to infect Dr. Kujo but fails.

L deduces that they plan to use Maki to spread the virus around the earth, Dr. Matsudo already has fabricated an antidote and makes many more. L meets Suruga again and they become to the aerodrome in order to finish Dr. Kujo. 50 successfully stops Dr. Kujo and injects her with the antidote, Maki attempts to kill Dr. Kujo but is convinced past L not to.

L drops off the boy at Wammys House and gives the boy the toy that he wanted and gives him his name 'Nigh.' Every bit he walks away he tells Watari that he wants to live in this world a little bit more.

During the finish credits scene Fifty is seen eating a piece of chocolate and leaves his room. Possible leading up to his death in Decease Note the last name. The screen fades to blackness and the text proverb "L. Lawliet, Remainder In Peace."

Bandage

Character	Bandage	English dub
L	Ken'ichi Matsuyama	Alessandro Juliani
The boy (aka Near)	Narushi Fukuda	Michael Strusievici
Maki Nikaido	Mayuko Fukuda	Chantal Strand
Kimihiko Nikaido	Shingo Tsurumi	Ted Cole
Kimiko Kujo (aka K)	Youki Kudoh	Cathy Weseluck
Koichi Matsudo	Sei Hiraizumi	Michael Dobson
Asao Konishi	Bokuzō Masana	Mark Oliver
Tamotsu Yoshizawa	Yuta Kanai	Kirby Morrow
Hatsune Misawa	Megumi Sato	Tabitha St. Germain
Shin Kagami	Renji Ishibashi	John Novak
Hideaki Suruga	Kiyotaka Nanbara	Brian Dobson
Daisuke Matoba	Masanobu Takashima	John Murphy
Watari	Shunji Fujimura	Ron Halder
F	Kazuki Namioka	Richard Ian Cox
Azetsu Mokotu	Hao Ganhane
Misa Amane	Erika Toda	Shannon Chan-Kent
Ryuk	Shidou Nakamura (voice)	Brian Drummond
Naomi Misora	Asaka Seto	Nicole Oliver
Sasaki	Yōji Tanaka	Neb Switzer
Light Yagami	Tatsuya Fujiwara	Brad Swaile
Yagure Mokotu	Ayui Naisora	Megan Hollingshead
Raye Iwamatsu	Shigeki Hosokawa	Michael Adamthwaite

As with the previous two live-action films, Death Note and Decease Note: The Terminal Proper noun, some of the English dub cast of the Death Notation anime series reprised their character roles for the picture show.

Music

Theme song: "I'll Be Waiting" by Lenny Kravitz.
Soundtrack: Sound of L Change the WorLd, with music equanimous by Kenji Kawai.

Trivia

Upwards until March 5, 2008, at that place was full of ii,200,000 in omnipresence (a total of approximately 250,000,000 yen) for this pic. March 5 was too Ken'ichi Matsuyama'due south altogether, then he historic both his birthday and the success of the picture show.
The C-Kira Story was released every bit part of the hype for the movie in Weekly Shounen Leap magazine, which also included a lot of film advertizing. The magazine Jump Square besides featured a cover folio L and a affiche of Near as part of the advertisement for the moving picture.