Death Note 3: Light Up the New World gets a trailer

Death Note 3: Light Up the New World is based on the manga series Death Note written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata

Set ten years after the events of the previous films, in 2016, society is afflicted with cyber-terrorism. The Death Note is a supernatural notebook that grants its user the power to kill simply by writing a person’s name on its pages. Six different Death Notes fall to the human world, the maximum number of notes that can exist at once. In the midst of this, two new individuals inherit the DNA of Light Yagami and L and must play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse once again

This new film is a sequel to the 2006 film Death Note 2: The Last Name and is due for release in Japan on October 29, 2016, by Warner Bros.

Directed by Shinsuke Sato, the film stars Masahiro Higashide, Sosuke Ikematsu, Masaki Suda, Erika Toda, Rina Kawaei, Mina Fujii, Nakamura Shidō II, Sota Aoyama, and Eiichiro Funakoshi.