20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End (2008)
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?
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Additional Info
| Budget | $20,000,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $31,244,858.00 |
| Original Language | ja |
| Popularity | 8.822 |
Directed By
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Crew
Yasushi Fukuda
Takashi Nagasaki
Naoki Urasawa
Yusuke Watanabe
Morio Amagi
Ryûji Ichiyama
Nobuyuki Iinuma
Kiyoshi Inoue
Futoshi Ohira
Ryomei Shirai
Satoru Karasawa
Nobuyuki Ito
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Seiji Okuda
Naoki Urasawa
TOP CAST
Toshiaki Karasawa
Kenji Endô
Takako Tokiwa
Yukiji
Teruyuki Kagawa
Yoshitsune
Hidehiko Ishizuka
Maruo
Takashi Ukaji
Mon-chan
Hiroyuki Miyasako
Keroyon
Namase Katsuhisa
Donkey
Fumiyo Kohinata
Yamane
Kuranosuke Sasaki
Fukubê
Shirō Sano
Yan-bô
Shirō Sano
Mâ-bô
Kanji Tsuda
Moroboshi
Takashi Fujii
Friendship Party Promotor
Hanako Yamada
Friendship Party Promotor
Etsushi Toyokawa
Otcho
Nana Katase
Miki Shikishima
Hitomi Kuroki
Kiriko Endo
Mirai Moriyama
Comic Artist
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