Death Note

Death Note

The battle of wits begins. Whose side are you on?

2006126 min7.1 / 10

A high-stakes psychological thriller built on moral ambiguity and intellectual cat-and-mouse play between a god-complex murderer and a brilliant detective.

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 find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

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