The Death Note movies in order

There are 4 Death Note films, about 6.7 hours in total. The first was released in 2006, the latest in 2016. Watching in release order is the safest way to meet the story as audiences did.

A collection of live action movies based on the Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata.

1. 1

   Death Note (2006)

   17 Jun 2006 · 126 min

   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.

2. 2

   Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

   28 Oct 2006 · 140 min

   In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death?

3. 3

   Death Note: L Change the WorLd (2008)

   7 Feb 2008

   "The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari, L has to solve the case all by himself for the very first time.

4. 4

   Death Note: Light Up the NEW World (2016)

   29 Oct 2016 · 134 min

   10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru is a member of the Death Note special task force team with 6 other investigators including Matsuda who experienced the Kira case of 10 years ago. Mass murders caused by the death note takes place on Wall Street in the U.S., Shib

Order and dates from TMDB collection data. Unreleased entries are added once they get a release date.