20th Century Boys

Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

Toshiaki Karasawa	Kenji Endô
Etsushi Toyokawa	Otcho
Takako Tokiwa	Yukiji
Teruyuki Kagawa	Yoshitsune
Hidehiko Ishizuka	Maruo
Takashi Ukaji	Mon-chan
Hiroyuki Miyasako	Keroyon
Katsuhisa Namase	Donkey
Fumiyo Kohinata	Yamane
Kuranosuke Sasaki	Fukubê
Shirô Sano	Yan-bô / Mâ-bô
Mirai Moriyama	Comic Artist
Kanji Tsuda	Moroboshi
Takashi Fujii	Friendship Party Promotor
Hanako Yamada	Friendship Party Promotor

Director	Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Producer	Morio Amagi; Ryuuji Ichiyama
Writer	Naoki Urasawa; Yusuke Watanabe
Cinematography	Satoru Karasawa
Musician	Ryomei Shirai

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?