20-seiki shonen −Dai 1 sho− Owari no hajimari

20th Century Boys -Chapter 1-

20世紀少年 −第1章− 終わりの始まり

(c)1999,2006 Naoki Urasawa, Studio Nuts/Shogakukan　(c)2008 ”20th Century Boys” Film Partners

Release Date: August, 30th, 2008

Running Time: 142 min

Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy , Feature , Series

Color: Color

Screening Format: 35mm

Screen Size: American Vista (1:1.85)

Sound Processing: Dolby Surround

[ Directed by ]

TSUTSUMI Yukihiko

[ Produced by ]

[ Cast ]

KARASAWA Toshiaki ── Kenji
TOYOKAWA Etsushi ── Otcho
TOKIWA Takako ── Yukiji

[ Staff ]

OKUDA Seiji ── Executive Producer
URASAWA Naoki ── Original Story
NAGASAKI Takashi ── Planning
FUKUDA Yasushi ── Screenplay
NAGASAKI Takashi ── Screenplay
URASAWA Naoki ── Screenplay
WATANABE Yusuke ── Screenplay
SHIRAI Ryomei ── Music
KARASAWA Satoru ── Cinematography
SOMA Naoki ── Production Design
KIMURA Meisei ── Lighting
TOKITA Mitsuo ── Sound Recording
ITO Nobuyuki ── Editor
NOZAKI Koji ── VFX Supervisor

[ Production Company ]

20th Century Boys Film Partners, NTV, SHOGAKUKAN, TOHO, VAP, YTV, DENTSU, THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN, Cine Bazar, Office Crescendo, d-rights, STV, MMT, SDT, CTV, HTV, FBS

[ Distributor (Japan) ]

TOHO

[ Production Studio ]

Cine Bazar, Office Crescendo

[ Story ]

Film adaptation of a bestselling comic by a globally well-recognized manga artist, Urasawa Naoki. This film is the first part of a trilogy with a production cost of 6 billion yen. It also attracted media attention as the film features a cast of 300 people. Directed by Tsutsumi Yukihiko of Memories of Tomorrow.
In 2015 a manga artist Kakuta (Moriyama Mirai), who is in prison, hears an astonishing story about the past. In 1997 Kenji (Karasawa Toshiaki) attended a school reunion, and there he was told by an old friend that the logo of a cult group led by a leader who is referred to as ‘Friend' looks very much like the logo of the group they formed at elementary school. Furthermore, incidents were happening across the world just as Kenji wrote in their ‘Book of Prophecy'. It is written in the book that mankind will be threatened with extinction on the last day of the 20th century. When the cult group gains a foothold in politics in 2000, Kenji gets in touch with his friend, Otcho (Toyokawa Etsushi), who designed the logo. Suddenly, a gigantic robot, which spreads bacterial gas, appears. Kenji and his friends try to stop it, but the robot explodes spectacularly before their eyes, leaving the Shinjuku area burned to the ground.