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20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End (2009)

Movie
Audience Score
67
20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
NR 2 hr 22 minAug 28th, 2009Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery20th Century Boys Collection PosterPart of 20th Century Boys Collection
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?
StarringToshiaki KarasawaTakako TokiwaTeruyuki Kagawa
DirectorYukihiko Tsutsumi

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:August 28th, 2009
On DVD & Blu-ray:August 12th, 2008 - Buy DVD
Movie Budget:$20,000,000
Movie Box Office Gross:$31,244,858 (Worldwide)
Original Language:Japanese
Executive Producers:Seiji Okuda
Production Companies:Cine Bazar, TOHO
20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End on the Web:Official Website
Movie Tags:
animelondon, englandbased on mangaculttokyo, japanbangkok, thailandosaka, japan

20th Century Boys Collection

Kenji and his friends in the club created an amateur comic book that imagined an apocalyptic future in which strange illnesses and bands of armed insurgents threatened to destroy the world. A fanatical cult known as Friend found the book and they've made it their business to turn it into a reality, and now Kenji and his old friends have to infiltrate the cult and stop them before it's too late.