Shusuke Kaneko
The series release outside Japan was met with a wave of copycat crimes. According to "Wired" magazine, "Death Note" "[turned] Japan's most-popular print medium into an internationally controversial topic that has parents wondering whether they should prohibit their kids from reading manga entirely". Live-action director Shusuke Kaneko commented in response, "If preventing them from seeing this movie is going to make kids better, then why not prevent them from watching all bad news?"