shea whigham played light's dad in death note.
shea whigham played light's dad in death note.
who plays light's dad in death note?
shea whigham
his counterpart in the american film, james turner: a seasoned seattle detective, is portrayed by shea whigham and is the father of light turner: the american adaptation of light yagami. this version of the character is a widowed and experienced seattle police detective and light's father, who has a deeply ingrained sense of justice, is still reeling from the death of his wife in a hit and run incident, with the person responsible being bailed from trial, and has a close yet somewhat strained relationship with his son, as demonstrated when light refuses to kill his father, when he appears in a television broadcast where he publicly humiliates "kira", and is unaware of his son's dual life as an infamous god-like serial-killer named "kira", who is massacring numerous known law-offenders around the world, through the utilization of a cursed supernatural notebook known as the "death note", with james refusing to believe in the possibility that his son could be "kira". he is also appointed as the local head of the "kira" investigation in seattle, and is eventually assisted by an enigmatic and esteemed international consulting detective known as l, who correctly surmises kira's location within seattle. unlike the manga, he is somewhat doubtful of l's deductions and observations and even engages in open conflict against l, when he suspects and attempts to attack light, out of suspicion that he is "kira", which eventually boils down to the point that james issues an arrest warrant and manhunt for l, who decides to hunt down light, after l's handler/foster-father: watari is seemingly murdered by "kira". however, by the end of the film, james is eventually horrified to find out that light is indeed "kira", after finding out evidence pointing towards light being responsible for the murder of his mother's killer, who was his first victim. after light reveals how he had committed his murders and cleared himself of being "kira" and tries to convince his father that what he did was the "lesser of two evils", james asks him if what he did was really a good thing either, while elsewhere, l finds a hidden page of the death note and contemplates writing light's name in it.
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light relinquishes ownership of the death note to kiyomi takada. after takada is caught, light kills her to recover the death note, but it is taken by the investigation team. l states that he will test the 13-day rule, a fake death note rule designed to prove light and misa's innocence. rem, knowing that l's actions will reveal misa's identity as the second kira, writes both l and his handler: watari's names in the death note. light then proceeds to write his father's name in the book, manipulating his father to return the confiscated death note. light confronts his father, but soichiro does not die. the investigation team members, including l, reveal themselves. having already written his own name in the death note, thus negating rem's actions, l tells light that he had just written in a fake note. light tries to write on a hidden piece of death note, but is shot by matsuda, an investigation team member. light tells ryuk to write the team's names, promising to show him many interesting things, and begins to laugh. he stops, however, when ryuk shows him that he had written just one name: light's. light tries to stop ryuk, but merely passes right through him. as light begins to succumb to the effects of the death note, ryuk takes this opportunity to reveal to him that humans that have used the death note are barred from entering either heaven or hell, instead spending eternity in nothingness. light dies in his father's arms, begging him to believe that he acted as kira to put the justice, which soichiro had taught him since his childhood, into practice.
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