It is now 2015, and Friend rules a disturbing new world. Kenji's niece Kanna is now in high school and her textbook contains a fabricated story about Kenji being the terrorist behind the horrific events of 2000. Kanna, knowing the truth, openly resents this, and as a result she is marked as a problem child and sent to Friend Land, a facility where people with rebellious anti-Friend behavior are re-educated. There, Kanna learns a crucial secret about Friend.
The surviving secret base members have each spent the last 15 years in various activities opposing Friend and his regime. While trying to find out the truth about Friend, they discover the shocking existence of The New Book of Prophecy, the sequel to The Book of Prophecy, describing an event: In 2015, at a church in Shinjuku, a savior will rise to uphold justice but will be assassinated. Who is the savior? Once again, Doomsday looms near...
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Credits:
Based on a manga by Naoki Urasawa
Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa, Takako Tokiwa, Airi Taira, Teruyuki Kagawa
Director: Yukuhiko Tsutsumi
2009 / Japan / 140 min
Japanese with English Subtitles
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