Death Note II Movie DVD Next Week, From Viz

In more imminent live-action movie news, Viz Pictures have announced that their DVD release of Death Note II: The Last Name is now estimated for February 10, 2009. This is the second live-action movie based on the Death Note manga / anime franchise, that originally premiered in Japan at the end of 2006, and was briefly shown in American theaters for two nights only in mid October 2008.



From what Viz tells us, the DVD will feature both the original Japanese dialogue with English subtitles, as well as an English dubbed version. Bonus features include a special segment, "Making of Death Note II" and the original Japanese theatrical trailer. Hmm... I think we missed that one, but we still have the Engrish Death Note 2 movie trailer, along with this here story copy-pasted from the communique:

The story picks up with Light Yagami (Tatsuya Fujiwara) joining the investigation team in pursuit of the serial killer known as 'Kira'. While L (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) still strongly suspects that Light is 'Kira', Light continues to seek out the real name of L so that he can kill him with his Death Note. Making things even more unpredictable is the 'Eyes of Death' that the second Kira possesses, enabling the owner to know the true identity and lifespan of any person. Light Yagami soon learns the identity of the other Kira and wants to join forces to get rid of L. Will L be able to catch "Kira" before he gets killed? Who will be the last name written in the Death Note?