Death Note (2006)
The battle of wits begins. Whose side are you on?
Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.
Death Note keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Elysium (2013)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Shaun of the Dead (2004)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Encanto (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)alters at E6 · same rung · looseSame people
Shared director or cast.
Death Note: The Last Name (2006)dir. Shusuke Kaneko
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)dir. Shusuke Kaneko
The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)Tatsuya Fujiwara
Battle Royale (2000)Tatsuya Fujiwara
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)Shido Nakamura
Fearless (2006)Shido Nakamura