| Directed by | Hideo Nakata |
|---|---|
| Starring | Ken'ichi Matsuyama |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. (all Japan rights, US DVD) |
| Country |  Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Preceded by | Death Note II: The Last Name |
Cast
- L: Ken'ichi Matsuyama
- Near: Narushi Fukuda (福田 響志 Fukuda Narushi)
- Maki Nikaido (二階堂 真希 Nikaidō Maki): Mayuko Fukuda
- Kimihiko Nikaido (二階堂 公彦 Nikaidō Kimihiko): Shingo Tsurumi
- Kimiko Kujo (久條 希実子 Kujō Kimiko) a.k.a. K: Youki Kudoh
- Koichi Matsudo (松戸 浩一 Matsudo Kōichi): Sei Hiraizumi
- Asao Konishi (小西 朝夫 Konishi Asao): Bokuzō Masana
- Tamotsu Yoshizawa (吉沢 保 Yoshizawa Tamotsu): Yuta Kanai
- Hotsune Misawa (三沢 初音 Misawa Hotsune): Megumi Sato
- Shin Kagami (加賀見シン Kagami Shin): Renji Ishibashi
- Hideaki Suruga (駿河 秀明 Suruga Hideaki): Kiyotaka Nanbara
- Daisuke Matoba (的場 大介 Matoba Daisuke): Masanobu Takashima
- Watari: Shunji Fujimura
- F (エフ Efu): Kazuki Namioka
- Misa Amane: Erika Toda
- Naomi Misora: Asaka Seto
- Sasaki (佐々木): Yōji Tanaka
- Light Yagami: Tatsuya Fujiwara
Plot
Ken'ichi Matsuyama reprises his role as L from the previous Death Note films. The film chronicles the final 23 days of L's life, as he solves one final case involving a bio-terrorist group that aims to wipe out much of humanity with a virus with one-hundred times the virulence of Ebola. He takes a boy he names Near, the sole survivor of its use in a village in Thailand, and an elementary schooler named Maki Nikaido under his wing.
Dr. Nikaido, a research doctor, has received news and a sample of a deadly virus which affected a now destroyed village in Thailand. He discovers that the virus is one-hundred times stronger than Ebola. His seemingly trustworthy assistant outs herself to be the leader of the organization that created the virus, which is still incomplete due to the lack of an antidote. Dr. Nikaido, who had managed to create an antidote, refused to give her the antidote and preferred to be dead rather than endanger the world. Realizing that she could not get the antidote from the doctor, the assistant kills him, now convinced that his daughter Maki has a deciphered formula for the antidote.
Maki, who had witnessed the murder, runs away in fear, eventually finding L's headquarters. Soon after she finds him, the bio-terrorist group tracks Maki down, forcing L, accompanied by Maki and Near, to runaway to a high-tech truck concealed as a sweets delivery truck dubbed "Angel Crepe" with the help of a Japanese-American FBI agent. L seeks the help of Dr. Nikaido's research partner to create a antidote for the virus. Eventually finding that Near contains the secret to the antidote, L manages to acquire a quantity of the antidote just as the bio-terrorist group is about to take an infected Maki to Washington in America to try to spread the virus. L manages to stop the plane before departing Thailand and giving all infected passenger, including the bio-terrorist, the antidote. The movie conclude with L leaving Near at Whammys House and giving him his "real name" to Near and his toy robot which is shown in the main Death Note series.
Shunji Fujimura also reprises his role as Watari, though the character dies early in the film as prior the events of The Last Name. The major characters of the main plot such as Light Yagami (Kira), Misa Amane, and Shinigami Ryuk all have brief cameos in the film.
