20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End

Aug 19, 2008

2h 22m

★ 6.7

Overview

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?

Genres

Science Fiction

Adventure

Mystery

Production Companies

Cine Bazar

TOHO

Toho Eizo Bijutsu

Nippon Television Network Corporation

Shogakukan

VAP

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

dentsu

Yomiuri Shimbun Company

Office Crescendo

d-rights

Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company

Miyagi Television Broadcasting

Shizuoka Daiichi Television

Hiroshima Telecasting

Fukuoka Broadcasting System

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Cast

Kenji Endô

Toshiaki Karasawa

Yukiji

Takako Tokiwa

Yoshitsune

Teruyuki Kagawa

Maruo

Hidehiko Ishizuka

Mon-chan

Takashi Ukaji

Keroyon

Hiroyuki Miyasako

Donkey

Katsuhisa Namase

Yamane

Fumiyo Kohinata

Fukubê

Kuranosuke Sasaki

Yan-bô

Shiro Sano

Mâ-bô

Shiro Sano

Moroboshi

Kanji Tsuda

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