How to Watch the Death Note Movies in Order

Want to watch the Death Note movies in order? The franchise spans 4 films released from 2006 to 2016. The simplest approach is release order, which is how the story was meant to unfold for audiences. Here is the complete Death Note watch order, with links to our full guides for each film.

1. Death Note (2006)

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

2. Death Note: The Last Name (2006)

In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mi

3. Death Note: L Change the WorLd (2008)

"The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari

4. Death Note: Light Up the NEW World (2016)

10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru is a member of the Death Note

Watch order at a glance

1. Death Note (2006)
2. Death Note: The Last Name (2006)
3. Death Note: L Change the WorLd (2008)
4. Death Note: Light Up the NEW World (2016)

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