
20th Century Boys: Beginning of the End
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?
First aired
August 19, 2008
Type
Movie
Cast
Crew
Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Director
Tatsuya Shiraishi
Assistant Director
Satoru Karasawa
Director of Photography
Seiji Okuda
Executive Producer
Futoshi Ohira
Producer
Morio Amagi
Producer
Kiyoshi Inoue
Producer
Ryûji Ichiyama
Producer
Nobuyuki Iinuma
Producer
Nobuyuki Ito
Editor
Ryomei Shirai
Music
Audio Highs
Music
Yasushi Fukuda
Screenplay
Takashi Nagasaki
Screenplay
Naoki Urasawa
Screenplay
Yusuke Watanabe
Screenplay
Kôji Nozaki
VFX Supervisor

First aired
August 19, 2008
Type