20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
Directed by Yukihiko Tsutsumi
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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?Read moreLess
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?
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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?
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Toshiaki KarasawaKenji Endô
Takako TokiwaYukiji
Teruyuki KagawaYoshitsune
Hidehiko IshizukaMaruo
Takashi UkajiMon-chan
Hiroyuki MiyasakoKeroyon
Katsuhisa NamaseDonkey
Fumiyo KohinataYamane
Kuranosuke SasakiFukubê
Shiro SanoYan-bôShiro SanoMâ-bô
Kanji TsudaMoroboshiExplore the crew
- Producer
- Futoshi Ohira
- Screenplay
- Yasushi Fukuda
- Screenplay
- Takashi Nagasaki
- Producer
- Morio Amagi
- Screenplay
- Naoki Urasawa
- Producer
- Kiyoshi Inoue
- Producer
- Ryûji Ichiyama
- Producer
- Nobuyuki Iinuma
- Editor
- Nobuyuki Ito
- Director of Photography
- Satoru Karasawa
- Screenplay
- Yusuke Watanabe
- Director
- Yukihiko Tsutsumi