Death Note

Death Note (デスノート, 2006) is a Japanese fantasy thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Shūsuke Kaneko from the acclaimed manga series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. Top student Light Yagami stumbles upon a notebook with a simple rule: write a person's name in it, and they die. A bored death god named Ryuk dropped it into the human world just to see what would happen.

Light starts using the notebook to execute criminals across the globe, styling himself a god called Kira. The problem arrives in the form of "L" — an anonymous genius detective who pieces together the pattern faster than anyone should be able to. What follows is less a cat-and-mouse chase than a chess match between two people who are each convinced they are the smartest in the room.

The film keeps the psychological tension that made the manga a phenomenon, letting the battle of wits carry the story rather than leaning on action. For viewers who like their thrillers morally complicated, this one asks a genuinely uncomfortable question — and refuses to answer it cleanly. Stream Death Note (2006) online on iFILM.