Death Note - Vol. 1 (DVD, 2007, Limited Edition; Collectible Figurine)

This is a very intriguing movie with original thought.

Light Yagami is an ace student who is bored out of his mind. Finding the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami Death God, Ryuk, who is equally bored with his own existence, Light decides to use that power of the Death Note to rid the world of all evil. Any human who happens to have his/her name in the book will die.

Light decides to start using the book to take out the world's criminals. This obviously catches the attention of the police and the criminals that haven't shuffled off this mortal world just yet. The police sends the legendary detective L to track down the killer and it isn't long before he's hot on Light's trail. As Light slowly discovers more of the powers held within the Death Note, he decides to try and use it to eliminate L, the only person standing between him and a "perfect world".

Light gets some unexpected help from his father, the head of Japanese National Police Agency who leaves his files about the case lying about the house. Using the files, Light can stay one step ahead of the Police but now he's picked up a strange person following him.

The conflict between Light and his adversary, L, sets up an interesting contest between two different views of morality and man's obligations to use whatever means necessary to effect change in the world.