Death Note Movies

This weekend was the Asian American Film Festival here in New York and I was lucky enough to snag tickets to both Death Note and the sequel, Death Note: The Last Name. Now, I'm a pretty huge Death Note fan, so I was incredibly anxious to see them. Shusuke Kaneko, the director, was there to introduce the first film, which was cool because he later had a Stan Lee esque cameo.

Overall, I liked them both, but probably the sequel better than the first — mostly because it's SO radically different than the original manga that I really had no idea what was going to happen next.