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Plot Summary:
The movie takes place again in the fictional Wangan Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department the once empty space within Wangan's jurisdiction has become a popular tourist attraction. When a string of murders of company execs begins taking place, Aoshima jumps at the opportunity to pursue something other than his current case, which he finds less than inspiring. However the powers that be have other ideas, and Wangan again plays host to a special investigation team from headquarters. Aoshima's friend Superintendent Shinji Muroi, assigned by headquarters to assist Okita, is again powerless to help the local officers as decisions are made by the higher ups.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Crime, Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: detective
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Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose (2010)
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After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a murder case, bomb threat, and a bus hijacking. Complications also arise between Detective Aoshima and his juniors.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Suspect: Muroi Shinji (2005)
Plot Summary:
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name. Is Muroi guilty as charged or merely taking the fall? What is the truth behind the murder? Two lawyers, one determined to get Muroi, the other resolved to save him, a feud between two police departments, political power plays and legal trappings, all combine to orchestrate Muroi’s downfall.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
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Golgo 13 (1973)
Plot Summary:
Live-action adaptation of the hit manga. Golgo 13, also known by the pseudonym Duke Togo, is a professional assassin. His age and birthplace are unknown and there is no consensus in the worldwide intelligence community as to his true identity. Most of his jobs are completed through the use of a customized, scoped M16 rifle. Golgo 13 is contracted to kill Boss Goa, the head of a worldwide crime syndicate responsible for drugs, weapons, and human trafficking.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, Iran
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tension, suspense
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Dancer and the Dame (2015)
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Down-and-out Detective Dancer, who struggling with a personal conflict, gives up on life and his job. But that all ends when he is paired up with a police dog who is also dealing with post-traumatic stress. The dog helps Dancer make a life-changing turn around. And in response, Dancer does the same for his partner, the Dame.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: detective
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Bayside Shakedown (1998)
Plot Summary:
Aoshima, a police detective working in the Bayside Precinct, is continually frustrated by the hierarchy and red tape that plague the system. His friend Muroi is climbing the ladder of the police bureaucracy. Muroi has made a pact with Aoshima that while Aoshima looks after the streets, Muroi would make life easier for the cops on the beat. One day in Bayside, a series of events turns the small station upside down. A corpse is found in the river, then the Police Commissioner is kidnapped, leading to the Metropolitian Police Department to take over the investigation which is led by Murai. Will he be true to his pact with Aoshima and co-operate with the local police? In the meantime, the murder investigation leads to a morbid web page and a deadly chat room in cyberspace.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 941
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: detective
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Roaring Fire (1981)
Plot Summary:
On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash. Shortly thereafter Joji goes to Japan is search of his sister and his twin brother Toru. Joji’s quickly finds his sister Chihiro who is now blind and lives with their uncle. Joji one evening accidently over hears his uncle who has ties to the criminal underworld discussing his various illegal operations. Joji ‘s eavesdropping is discovered by his uncle who offers him a chance to join the organization. Joji promptly turns his uncle’s offer down which immediately puts his life in danger.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: campy, cult film
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The Tumultuous Adventures of Jack Carter (2003)
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Private detective Jack Carter is nothing if not eccentric: penniless, he lives, eats and sleeps at the office. When it comes to work, he accepts only those rare cases that intrigue him and leave other detectives mystified. No investigation is too strange or unusual to dishearten Carter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Action, Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration:
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Inspector Zenigata (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Tokyo police receives a bomb threat from what appears to be Lupin III. This proves to be a distraction and a priceless painting was stolen from the nearby Tokyo Empire Museum, leaving a guard dead. Enter Inspector Zenigata who is convinced this wasn't Lupin III at all. In his own unique way he goes about proving this only to attract the attention of a real bomber calling himself Mr. Question. Will his riddles defeat Zenigata and his team or will they persevere and save Tokyo?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective, anime
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Deadloch (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two vastly different female detectives are thrown together to solve the murder of a local man in the sleepy seaside hamlet of Deadloch.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
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Ushijima the Loan Shark 2 (2014)
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Ushijima runs Kaukau Fiance, a black market lending agency which scourges its clients with interest rates as high as 50% for 10 days. Ushijima chases down his debtors, who normally come from the bottom of society, with ruthless efficacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min
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Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts becomes good friends with Hidemaro an underachieving weakling. Omito Date, former student leader, plans his revenge against his former school. Now leader of an evil army from rival Kanto Gogakuren school he fully intends on taking over Otokojuku.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, manga
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The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2013)
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Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the firing is part of a carefully orchestrated plan. Reiji is ordered to become a "mole," an undercover cop. His target is Shuho Todoroki, the boss of the Sukiyakai gang. The group is the largest crime group in the Kanto area. Masaya Hiura, who works as a young boss of a Sukiyakai affiliated gang likes Reiji. While going through various hardships, Reiji works his way towards Shuho Todoroki.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious, manga
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A Ghost of a Chance (2011)
Plot Summary:
Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and his only alibi is a 421-year old ghost, Rokubei. At first Emi is hesitant, but when she pursues her lead she is visited by the ghost herself. And so the fun begins in the courtroom when Prosecutor Osano starts to cross examine….
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Roundup: No Way Out (2023)
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Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective
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Murder in Successville (2015)
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Each week Successville's loveable detective, D.I Sleet, enlists the help of a celebrity sidekick to solve the latest high-profile murder in this improvised comedy murder mystery series.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: detective, sitcom
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The Golden Holiday (2020)
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A laid-back countryside detective Byung-su takes his family to the Philippines for his 10th wedding anniversary. In fact, his hidden agenda is to track down his old friend Yong-bae who scammed him and got away a few years ago. In Manila, Byung-su finds Yong-bae in prison for murder, and hears about the case surrounding 'Yamashita’s Gold'. Swayed by a share of the Gold that Yong-bae offers, Byung-su suddenly becomes embroiled in the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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As undercover cop Reiji takes on a new mission to takedown the Chinese mafia, elite police officer Shinya moves to arrest Reiji.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Two G-Men, returning from hell, must perform good deeds to save themselves from a doomed fate.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, comic
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Bayside Shakedown the Final (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set 2 years after prior film "Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose," a major case occurs that has the potential to take down the entire police organization. For the next 3 days, Shunsaku Aoshima and his colleagues struggle to unravel the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Census Taker (1984)
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When George (Greg Mullavey) and Martha (Meredith MacRae) let Harvey (Garrett Morris), an annoying census taker, into their home, they find themselves under a barrage of increasingly abusive questions. Furious at his intrusiveness, and at their wit's end, they kill the census taker and with the help of their friends Pete (Timothy Bottoms) and Eva (Austen Tayler), must hide the body from a determined investigator.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Arrest the Restless (1992)
Plot Summary:
Two juveniles get mixed up in a street gang, resulting in the murder of a rival gang leader. A crooked cop pins the murder on the boy, but a detective who knows the truth risks his career to help the kid out.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: detective
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Kanzo Hattori, an apprentice Ninja, leaves his home town of Iga for his final training. He must go to the city of Edo (Tokyo), and the first person he meets shall be his master, whom he must protect with his life, whilst upholding the ninja code. Also while in Edo, Hattori must find out why their rivals, the Koga Ninjas, are flourishing while the Iga Ninjas are dying out. Hattori's master is Kenichi, a 9 year old boy. Kenichi is an introvert and not very popular boy, so he never plays with the other children from school. Kenichi also has a secret crush on a young lady called Midori, yet he's too shy to speak to her. Though as he watches Hattori trying his best, he too begins to try. Meanwhile, people are being found unconscious, their bodies completely unmarked. All the victims have a tattoo (the Koga Ninja crest) and are found with a throwing knife lying close by.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Drama
Country: Japan
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Plot tags: detective
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Space Travelers (2000)
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Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to pretend to be part of the gang. Surprisingly, the hostages soon enjoy doing so. On that strange day, the bank becomes a tropical paradise.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, exciting, futuristic, anime
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Crows Zero (2007)
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The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself to do it as he reminds him of his youth.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
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Cops vs. Thugs (1975)
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In at least 6 movies by director Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara played a yakuza thug. This time, he carries a badge but his character hasn't lost his distaste for double-dealing bosses and authority figures who are out to cover their own butts. Detective Kuno is balanced between the law and pragmatism. Cops didn't enforce the law to the point of pushing gangsters over the edge. In return, the gangsters mostly stayed out of the public eye. Some of them even became friends with cops, sharing a mutual desire to keep-down trade unions and leftists. When that balance is upset, Kuno has to decide where his loyalties lie. In this gray world, cops aren't always good and gangsters are thoroughly bad.. although there's no reward for good men who drink from the cup of corruption. "Cops Versus Thugs" has that trademark Fukasaku camera-work.. constantly moving, zooming, and putting you right in the middle of the action, changing loyalties and political maneuvering between cops and criminals.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 909
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Country: Japan
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A small-time drug-dealer gets into big trouble when a corrupt East London cop tries to steal a consignment meant for Welsh-Jamaican Yardies.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 431
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Plot Summary:
Extremely silly comedy about a self-indulgent private investigator who winds up on a cruise ship full of rich patrons, gorgeous women, murderous terrorists, and scarce food.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, manga, spoof, freeze frame, cult classic, action adventure, parody, exciting, offbeat
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Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous moppets whose antics try his patience and test his mettle, Kimble may have met his match … in more ways than one.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 159000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: light, funny, humorous, detective, sincere, surprise ending, crying, suspense, cute, hilarious
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Ride Along (2014)
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For the past two years, high-school security guard Ben has been trying to show decorated APD detective James that he's more than just a video-game junkie who's unworthy of James' sister, Angela. When Ben finally gets accepted into the academy, he thinks he's earned the seasoned policeman's respect and asks for his blessing to marry Angela. Knowing that a ride along will demonstrate if Ben has what it takes to take care of his sister, James invites him on a shift designed to scare the hell out of the trainee. But when the wild night leads them to the most notorious criminal in the city, James will find that his new partner's rapid-fire mouth is just as dangerous as the bullets speeding at it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, funny, humorous, hilarious, action comedy, exciting, black comedy, teen, detective, realistic