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20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End

2008 2 hours 22 minutes
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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?

Released

19th August 2008

18 years ago

Runtime

2 hours 22 minutes

Finishes at 3:13pm

Budget

$20,000,000 ($30,972,000 today)

Revenue $31,244,858Profit

Ratings and awards

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    6.6/10

  • Rotten Tomatoes Logo

    36%

  • TMDb Logo

    67%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    56%

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Directed by

Yukihiko Tsutsumi

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Written by

Naoki Urasawa, Yusuke Watanabe, Yasushi Fukuda, Takashi Nagasaki

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