20th Century Boys
20th Century Boys
20世紀少年
20 Seiki Shōnen
20th Century Boys
Also known as | 20th Century Boys 1: The Beginning of the End |
Director | Yukihiko Tsutsumi |
Original Story | Naoki Urasawa |
Screenplay |
Yasushi Fukuda Takashi Nagasaki Naoki Urasawa Yusuke Watanabe |
Music Director | Ryomei Shirai |
Music |
Ryomei Shirai Toru Hasebe Audio Highs Naoki Urasawa |
Photography | Satoru Karasawa |
Art | Naoki Soma |
Lighting | Akio Kimura |
Sound | Mitsuo Tokita |
Editor | Nobuyuki Ito |
Production Companies | Nippon TV Network, Shogakukan, Toho, Vap, Yomiuri TV Broadcasting, Dentsu, Yomiuri Shimbun, Cine Bazaar, Office Crescendo, D Rights, Sapporo TV, Miyagi TV, Shizuoka Daiichi TV, Chukyo TV, Hiroshima TV, Fukuoka Broadcasting |
Release Date | August 30, 2008 |
Runtime | 142 minutes |
Followed by | 20th Century Boys: The Last Hope (2009) |
20世紀少年 20 Seiki Shōnen 20th Century Boys |
Director | Yukihiko Tsutsumi |
Original Story | Naoki Urasawa |
Screenplay |
Yasushi Fukuda Takashi Nagasaki Naoki Urasawa Yusuke Watanabe |
Music Director | Ryomei Shirai |
Music |
Ryomei Shirai Toru Hasebe Audio Highs Naoki Urasawa |
Photography | Satoru Karasawa |
Art | Naoki Soma |
Lighting | Akio Kimura |
Sound | Mitsuo Tokita |
Editor | Nobuyuki Ito |
Also known as | 20th Century Boys 1: The Beginning of the End |
Production Companies | Nippon TV Network, Shogakukan, Toho, Vap, Yomiuri TV Broadcasting, Dentsu, Yomiuri Shimbun, Cine Bazaar, Office Crescendo, D Rights, Sapporo TV, Miyagi TV, Shizuoka Daiichi TV, Chukyo TV, Hiroshima TV, Fukuoka Broadcasting |
Release Date | August 30, 2008 |
Runtime | 142 minutes |
Followed by | 20th Century Boys: The Last Hope (2009) |
Kenji works at a convenience store, looking after his niece Kanna after she was abandoned by his sister, Kiriko. He is pulled into a massive conspiracy sweeping across Japan when, at a school reunion, he is shown a symbol being used by a strange new cult, led by a masked figure named “Friend.” Kenji realizes that the symbol is the same one used by he and his childhood friends when they were playing in a grass fort one summer thirty years ago. Furthermore, Friend’s cult appears to be taking its cues from a notebook Kenji wrote that summer called “The Book of Prophecy,” in which a series of specific disasters occur before Kenji and his friends rise up to save the earth. Kenji looks for and finds an old time capsule they had buried at the end of the summer, which contains a flag bearing Friend’s symbol. The Book of Prophecy is still unaccounted for, but now Kenji is convinced that one of his childhood friends is behind the Friend cult.
Kenji tries to remember the specific events mentioned in the Book of Prophecy, such as an airport being destroyed. Haneda Airport is subsequently destroyed in a terrorist bombing. Members of Friend’s cult appear at Kenji’s store and attempt to kidnap Kanna; when they fail, they burn the store down. Kenji confronts the cult members at a gathering, where he comes face to face with the masked Friend. Friend taunts Kenji and reveals that he is really Kanna’s father, and that both he and Kanna have important roles to play in future events. Friend has Kenji framed for the recent disasters and forces him into hiding. Kenji contacts his childhood friends and summons them to Tokyo to fight Friend. Kenji also manages to recover the Book of Prophecy, so he can anticipate Friend’s moves.
Over the next several years, Friend’s cult grows into a political party and takes a majority of seats in the government. Kenji’s group struggles to stay ahead of Friend’s plans up until December 2000. On New Year’s Eve, before the start of the new millennium, they expect a giant robot to attack Tokyo. Sure enough, the robot appears, while simultaneous bio-weapon attacks occur all over the globe, slaughtering millions. Kenji and his friends leap into action. Otcho and Fukube search for someone who could be controlling the robot. Fukube finds someone in a Friend mask atop a skyscraper; they struggle, and both men plunge over the edge to their deaths. Yukiji and Mon-chan try to break into the Friend party headquarters. Kenji boards the robot with a bomb to destroy it. He encounters Friend, who unmasks himself. As Kenji stares at Friend, the bomb goes off, causing a chain reaction that destroys most of the city. Fourteen years later, Kanna has grown into a teenager and resists the oppressive government instituted by Friend…
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Rest of Cast Listed Alphabetically
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Top Billed Cast
Kenji Endo
Choji "Otcho" Ochiai
Yukiji Setoguchi
Tsuyoshi "Yoshitsune" Minamoto
Michihiro Maruo
Masaaki "Mon-chan" Shimon
Keitaro "Keroyon" Fukuda
Saburo "Donkey" Kido
Akio Yamane
Tetsuya "Fukube" Hattori
Yanbo
Mabo
Kakuda
Dan Moroboshi
Himself
Herself
Masao Tamura
Mika Shikishima
Erika
Kanna Endo
Shikishima Seminar Student
Shikishima Seminar Student
Scooter Man
Scooter Man
Masato Ikegami
Rock Band Vocalist
Chiyo Endo
Pierre Ichimonji
Detective Yamazaki
Kenji's Classmate
Kingmart Franchise Rep
Kenji's Classmate
Setsuko Ichihara
Mitsuko Kido
Bloody Man
Nobuo
Orico President
Hobo
Hobo
Hobo
Rock Band
Jijibaba's Husband (Photo)
Jijibaba
Chosuke "Cho-san" Igarashi
Mrs. Moroboshi
Kenji
Otcho
Yukiji
Yoshitsune
Maruo
Donkey
Mon-chan
Keroyon
Katsumata
Sadakiyo
Yanbo (1969)
Mabo (1969)
Konchi
Fukube
Fujiyama Travel (Voice)
Commentator
Commentator
Commentator
Infomercial Talent
Inshu Manjome
Kami-sama
Kiriko Endo
Rest of Cast Listed Alphabetically
Kanna
Detective
Ikegami