20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2008)
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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?
Director:
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Writers:
Yasushi Fukuda, Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa, Yusuke Watanabe.
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Toshiaki Karasawa as Kenji Endô |
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Takako Tokiwa as Yukiji |
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Teruyuki Kagawa as Yoshitsune |
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Hidehiko Ishizuka as Maruo |
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Takashi Ukaji as Mon-chan |
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Hiroyuki Miyasako as Keroyon |
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Katsuhisa Namase as Donkey |
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Fumiyo Kohinata as Yamane |
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Kuranosuke Sasaki as Fukubê |
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Shiro Sano as Yan-bô |
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Shiro Sano as Mâ-bô |
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Kanji Tsuda as Moroboshi |
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Takashi Fujii as Friendship Party Promotor |
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Hanako Yamada as Friendship Party Promotor |
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Etsushi Toyokawa as Otcho |
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Nana Katase as Miki Shikishima |
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Hitomi Kuroki as Kiriko Endo |
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Mirai Moriyama as Comic Artist |
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Arata Iura as |
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Kai Ato as |
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Shinya Kito as |
| Writing | Yasushi Fukuda | Screenplay |
| Writing | Takashi Nagasaki | Screenplay |
| Writing | Naoki Urasawa | Screenplay |
| Writing | Yusuke Watanabe | Screenplay |
| Production | Morio Amagi | Producer |
| Production | Ryûji Ichiyama | Producer |
| Production | Nobuyuki Iinuma | Producer |
| Production | Kiyoshi Inoue | Producer |
| Production | Futoshi Ohira | Producer |
| Sound | Ryomei Shirai | Music |
| Camera | Satoru Karasawa | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Nobuyuki Ito | Editor |
| Directing | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Director |
| Production | Seiji Okuda | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Naoki Urasawa | Comic Book |
| Visual Effects | Kôji Nozaki | VFX Supervisor |
| Sound | Audio Highs | Music |
| Directing | Tatsuya Shirashi | Assistant Director |
| Production | 吉崎秀一 | Production Manager |
| Art | Naoki Soma | Production Design |
| Sound | Mitsuo Tokita | Sound Recordist |
| Production | Kiyoshi Inoue | Line Producer |
| Production | Shinji Saito | Casting |
| Visual Effects | Kazuya Sakagami | Visual Effects Director |
| Lighting | Akio Kimura | Gaffer |
| Crew | Yuta Morokaji | Stunt Coordinator |
| Production | Futoshi Ohira | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Ryomei Shirai | Music Director |
| Crew | Kumiko Yoshida | Script |