20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End

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?

Production Companies

Cine Bazar

TOHO

Toho Eizo Bijutsu

Nippon Television Network Corporation

Shogakukan

VAP

Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation

dentsu

Yomiuri Shimbun Company

Office Crescendo

d-rights

Sapporo Television Broadcasting Company

Miyagi Television Broadcasting

Shizuoka Daiichi Television

Hiroshima Telecasting

Fukuoka Broadcasting System

Part of

20th Century Boys Collection