DEATH NOTE 1 & 2 Blu-ray Collection Comes to UK

Source: 4Digital Media, Organic Marketing press releases Official Movie Site: Death-Note-Movie (Japan), 4digitalmedia.com/deathnote (UK) Special Thanks to Steve Beecham and Andy Green

With over 25 million copies sold, Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata`s hit manga series Death Note has spawned an internationally successful anime series, and been adapted into two box office smash live-action feature films directed by Shusuke Kaneko, widely known for the popular Gamera monster film series. Now British distributor 4Digital Media will release a 4 disc special edition box set with both feature films in Blu-ray; DEATH NOTE and DEATH NOTE: THE LAST NAME, plus two discs packed full of extras on DVD. DEATH NOTE 1 & 2 Blu-ray Collection Street Date: 20 Sep 2010 Label: 4Digital Media Region: PAL Number of discs: 4 Running Time: 262 minutes Certificate: 15 RRP: £24.99 DEATH NOTE follows the story of Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara, BATTLE ROYALE) a brilliant but bored student with great prospects. Life changes dramatically when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god named Ryuk. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies. Light sees an opportunity to rid the world of evil using the powers granted in the Death Note. But is he doing more harm than good in his quest to kill off every criminal? Police call in the help of the famous, but unconventional detective known to the world only as L (Kenichi Matsuyama, KAMUI) when criminals begin to mysteriously die. Will Light be able to outsmart him or end up in prison? So begins the battle of wits to see who really is good or evil. Special Features Disc • Theatrical Trailer • Making of DEATH NOTE • Production Diary Video • DEATH NOTE Press Conference • Original Japanese Trailers • Image Gallery In DEATH NOTE: THE LAST NAME, Light and L`s psychological duel enters a new phase; whoever is careless for even a split second will lose! To complicate things further, Rem, another shinigami brings the second notebook and Misa Amane (Erika Toda), a Japanese pop star and Kira worshipper, comes into possession of it. Now becoming a Kira herself, she accepts an offer to have the Eyes of the Death. With the Eyes of the Death one can know the name of any person without being told. Misa and Light begin to work together to find the true name of L... Special Features Disc • Theatrical Trailer • Making of DEATH NOTE: THE LAST NAME • Production Diary Video • Press Conference • Original Japanese Trailers • Image Gallery • Premiere at the Tokyo Forum

About 4Digital Media

4Digital Media is a UK based independent DVD distributor with an extensive and varied film catalogue covering many genres as well as TV series, sport, fitness, general interest and music DVD. 4Digital Asia is a sub-label specialising in Asian “cult” live action films in their original language with English subtitles. 4Digital Asia’s ever increasing catalogue includes such favourites as DEATH NOTE, DEATH NOTE: THE LAST NAME, L: Change the WorLd, the 20TH CENTURY BOYS trilogy, TOKYO GORE POLICE, VAMPIRE GIRL VS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL, THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME and many more.

For more information on the DEATH NOTE series please see the earlier coverage here on SciFi Japan: