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==Profile==
* '''Movie:''' Twentieth Century Boys / 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End
* '''Romaji:''' 20-seiki Shonen: Honkaku Kagaku Boken Eiga
* '''Japanese:''' ２０世紀少年
* '''Director:''' [[Yukihiko Tsutsumi]]
* '''Assistant Director:''' [[Hisashi Kimura]]
* '''Writer:''' [[Naoki Urasawa]] (Manga), [[Yasushi Fukuda]], [[Takashi Nagasaki]], [[Naoki Urasawa]], [[Yusuke Watanabe]]
* '''Producer:''' Nobuyuki Iinuma
* '''Cinematographer:'''
* '''Released:''' August 30, 2008
* '''Runtime:''' 142 min.
* '''Genre:''' Drama / Adventure / Thriller / Sci-Fi
* '''Movie Studio:''' [[Cine Bazar]], [[Toho]]
* '''Distributor:''' [[Toho]]
* '''Language:''' Japanese
* '''Country:''' Japan

==Plot==
In the summer of 1969, Kenji was an elementary schoolboy. He built a secret base in a vacant lot with his friends Otcho, Maruo, Yoshitsune,
Mon-chan, Donkey, Yukiji and Fukubee. One of their secret activities included writing in the ‘Book of Prophecy’. In their ‘Prophecy’, the children
fantasized that they had to fight villains who were out to conquer the world, bringing about doomsday.

Years later in 1997, Kenji is the manager of a convenience store. He's given up his dream to be a rock star and has chosen to live a regular life,
looking after his sister's baby girl Kanna after his sister has disappeared for an undisclosed reason.
His boring life is turned upside down one day when his old classmate, Donkey dies mysteriously and then an entire family in the neighborhood
disappears.

At the same time, there's a lot of talk about a religious cult and its mysterious leader, Friend. A strange chain of events follow, which exactly
duplicate the events described in the ‘Book of Prophecy.’ Kenji and his former classmates
are shocked to learn this horrible truth. If things are happening exactly as described in
the ‘Book of Prophecy,’ then Friend's intention is to fulfill the doomsday prophecy. And
Friend is most likely one of the kids they used to play with...

As the events in the ‘Book of Prophecy’ unfold in their lives, Kenji and his former
classmates decide to take on the villain.

Time passes and now it's December 31st, 2000. This is the day described in the ‘Book of
Prophecy’ as the day of mankind's demise.

==Notes==
# “20th Century Boys” was originally serialized in a manga magazine, ‘Shogakukan Big Spirits Comics,’ between 1999 and 2007.
# The manga series has been translated and published in 11 countries, and received many awards both domestically and internationally, including the ‘Best Prize for a Series’ at Angoulême International Comics Festival in France.
# Related titles:
## [[20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End]] | 20-seiki shonen (2008)
## [[20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope ]] | 20-seiki shonen: dai-2-sho (2009)
## [[20th Century Boys 3: Redemption]] | 20-seiki shonen: Saishu-sho - Bokura no hata (2009)

==Cast==
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|1name=Toshiaki Karasawa
|1charactername=Kenji Endo
|2picture=File:20th Century Boys 1-Etsushi Toyokawa.jpg
|2name=Etsushi Toyokawa
|2charactername=Otcho
|3picture=File:20th Century Boys 1-Takako Tokiwa.jpg
|3name=Takako Tokiwa
|3charactername=Yukiji
|4picture=File:20th Century Boys 1-Teruyuki Kagawa.jpg
|4name=Teruyuki Kagawa
|4charactername=Yoshitsune
|5picture=File:20th Century Boys 1-Takashi Ukaji.jpg
|5name=Takashi Ukaji
|5charactername=Mon-chan
|6picture=File:20th Century Boys 1-Kuranosuke Sasaki.jpg
|6name=Kuranosuke Sasaki
|6charactername=Fukube
}}
'''Additional Cast Members:'''
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* [[Hidehiko Ishizuka]] - Maruo (stationery shop)
* [[Shiro Sano]] - Yanbo / Mabo (twins)
* [[Hiroyuki Miyasako]] - Keroyon
* [[Katsuhisa Namase]] - Saburo Kido (Donkey)
* [[Fumiyo Kohinata]] - Yamane
* [[Toshikazu Fukawa]] - Nobuo (doctor's son/Kenji's former classmate)
* [[Arata Iura]] - Masao Tamura
* [[Nana Katase]] - Miki Shikishima (lab professor's daughter)
* [[Chizuru Ikewaki]] - Erika (Kingmart cashier)
* [[Mirai Moriyama]] - Kakuda (manga artist)
* [[Yu Tokui]] - Scowling supervisor of Kingmart
* [[Yoriko Douguchi]] - Mitsuko Kido (Donkey's wife)
* [[Kenichi Endo]] - bleeding man
* [[Ken Mitsuishi]] - Det. Yama
* [[Raita Ryu]] - Det. Chosuke Igarashi
* [[Renji Ishibashi]] - Inshu Manjome
* [[Bengal]] - President of Oriko Office Equipments
* [[Kanji Tsuda]] - Moroboshi
* [[Katsuo Nakamura]] - God (homeless man)
* [[Mansaku Fuwa]] - homeless man
* [[Tomiko Ishii]] - Kenji Endo's mom
* [[Hitomi Kuroki]] - Kiriko Endo (Kenji's sister)
* [[Rina Hatakeyama]] - Kanna Endo (Kiriko's daughter)
* [[Airi Taira]] - Kanna Endo (adult)
* [[Miyako Takeuchi]] - Setsuko Ichihara
|
* [[Naoto Takenaka]] - Pierre Ichimonji
* [[Tamotsu Ishibashi]] - Kenji's Classmate
* [[Hanako Yamada]] - actress in CM
* [[Mitsuhiro Oikawa]] - vocalist of rock band
* [[Ken Tanaka]]
* [[Osamu Tsuji]]
* [[Yukina Kinoshita]] - girl in Shibuya
* [[Akio Yokoyama]] - Hama-san
* [[Yoichiro Seto]]
* [[Taijiro Tamura]] - Chu-san
* [[Jun Nishiyama]] - Kenji Endo (childhood)
* [[Tamaki Matsumoto]] - Yukiji (childhoood)
* [[Kazuya Anzai]] - Maruo (childhood)
* [[Taichi Yano]] - Mon-chan (childhood)
* [[Kiyotaka Yamada]] - Yanbo / Mabo (twins - childhood)
* [[Riku Uehara]] - Fukube (childhood)
* [[Ryusei Sawahata]] - Otcho (childhood)
* [[Fumiya Ogura]] - Yoshitsune (childhood)
* [[Shuto Tanabe]] - Kenji Endo (early teen)
* [[Dandy Sakano]] - man on TV
* [[Takashi Fujii]] - Friendship Party Promotor
* [[Shingo Fujimori]]
|}

==Trailers==
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==Film Festivals==
* [[2009 (9th) Nippon Connection]] - April 15th-19th - Nippon Cinema
* [[2009 (8th) New York Asian Film Festival]] - June 19th-July 5th
* [[2008 (41st) Sitges Film Festival]] - October 2nd-10th
* [[2009 (13th) Fantasia Film Festival]] - July 9th-29th
* [[2009 (29th) Hawaii International Film Festival]] - October 15th-25th - Spotlight on Japan

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==External Links==
* [http://www.20thboys.com/ Official Movie Website]

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