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Plot Summary:
The story of how a bank clerk becomes a Ginza nightclub owner.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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The Suspicious Housekeeper (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eun Sang-Chul (Lee Sung-Jae) and his four children encounter difficulties after the sudden death of his wife. Then, a suspicious housekeeper named Park Bok-Nyeo (Choi Ji-Woo) appears. Because of the housekeeper, Eun Sang-Chul and his children faces various cases and family members who hate each other begin to experience love and reconciliation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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Naomi & Kanako (2016)
Plot Summary:
Naomi Oda (Ryoko Hirosue) aspired to become a curator at an art gallery, but she currently works in a department store. Her job is to cater to VIP customers. She is not happy with her current position. One day, her friend since their college days, Kanako Hattori (Yuki Uchida) visits Naomi at her apartment. Kanako tells Naomi that she gets beaten by her husband Tatsuro. Her husband is an elite employee at a bank and lashes out at his wife when stressed. Naomi tells her friend to divorce her husband, but Kanako is worried that her husband would kill her if she did. Her husband's violent behavior controls Kanako. One day, Naomi happens to see a Chinese stowaway who looks just like Kanako's husband. This causes Naomi to think of a perfect plan to kill Kanako's husband. Naomi and Kanako soon carry out their plan.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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It Was Always Me (2022)
Plot Summary:
When Lupe is 22 years old, her life suddenly changes after she learns that her father, a famous Colombian singer-songwriter, has died. Upon arriving in Colombia, Lupe meets Noah, a mysterious character who turns out to be her father's assistant. Instead of returning to Mexico, Lupe decides to stay as she suspects that the musician's death was not an accident. Together with Noah, she will embark on a musical adventure full of danger, mystery and romance, in the Caribbean region of Colombia.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama, Musical, Mystery
Country: Colombia
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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HUNTER - Women After Reward Money (2011)
Plot Summary:
On a return flight to Japan, cabin attendant Isaka Rei arrests a thief at Narita Airport’s International Terminal, and receives a reward of 1 million yen. However, she is half-forced to resign from her job as a cabin attendant because of this roundup. Furthermore, her younger sister, Akane, has made her a guarantor and disappeared, leaving her 10-year-old daughter, Haru behind. Rei starts to live with a reluctant Haru at ‘Shunkato’, the small eating house that Akane has been running. There is a firsthand account of Akane meeting a ‘Shunkato’ customer on the day she went missing. Rei brings the photograph of the man whom Akane met to Tsukishima Police Precinct, and learns that there is a 1 million yen bounty because he is a wanted criminal. The lack of motivation of the attending detective, Gondo Takeshi of the precinct’s Community Safety Division, spurs her to decide that she has to arrest this criminal who has some sort of connection to her sister. And so, Rei becomes a bounty hunter together with the ladies who gather at ‘Shunkato’.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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Hello, Detective Hedgehog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Detective Goro Nanase and his colleagues of "Akatsuka Detective Office" are based in Shimo-Akazuka of Itabashi-ku, Tokyo. The detectives take on a string of challenging cases that no one else wants to take on.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, detective
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The Tragedy of W (2012)
Plot Summary:
"W no Higeki" is an adaptation of a novel by Natsuki Shizuko, which was first published in 1982. It was turned into a theatrical movie in 1984, and has seen numerous adaptions into TV drama in 1983, 1986, 2001 and 2010 respectively. This new version of the story has Takei Emi playing two different characters with the exact same face. One is Mako, the future successor of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical conglomerate. She has always lived in comfort, but yearns for freedom. The other character is Satsuki, a lowly cleaner in a show pub who lives in solitude and destitution, and would do anything to get money, including prostituing her own body. One day, they met and decided to exchange lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Lost ID (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shinichi Todo is handsome and smart. He is loved by family, friends and his girlfriend. Everything in his life seems to go well, but, one day, someone with the same name is arrested. After that, his smooth life changes. An imposter takes his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags:
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The Weather Girl Knows (2013)
Plot Summary:
Haruko Abe (Emi Takei) received her meteorologist license at the age of 11. She is a genius weatherwoman. Haruko now works as a meteorologist on a morning information program. Due to her incredibly blunt personality, a lot of people at her workplace dislikes her. Meanwhile, Haruko tries to solve cases with Detective Gota Aoki (Tadayoshi Okura), using her extensive knowledge of the weather.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, detective
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Alibi Breaker (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a local shopping street in Nano prefecture, far from the metropole, young Tokino Mitani runs a clocksmith that she inherited from her grandfather all by herself. Her main job is to repair watches and clocks, but she is about to start a side business, a service to break alibis for a fee of 5000 yen per case with a guarantee that the fee is billed only when the alibi is broken. . One day, Tokino meets Yoshiyuki Saji, a detective who is newly assigned to the prefectural police department. Saji cannot break a very solid alibi at a case he is working on and secretly asks Tokino to break it. The case is very challenging, but will Tokino lead him to solve the case!?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Bull Doctor (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bull Doctor is a Japanese television drama series that aired on NTV from 6 July to 14 September 2011.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, intellectual, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
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Doctor X: Gekai Daimon Michiko Special (2016)
Plot Summary:
Kojiro Himuro is a champion figure skater taking part in an upcoming world competition. Yet, he is suffering from a complicated CTEPH (chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension). Kantaro Kurosu is the director of the Cross Medical Center. He asks Michiko Daimon to perform surgery on Kojiro, but, right before his surgery some thing happened.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, medical drama
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School Counselor (2017)
Plot Summary:
Aizawa Hinata is a high school counselor who provides support to students with school and family problems. This is motivated by the warped relationship she had with her over-controlling mother which she could not discuss with anyone. One day, a male student who has not been attending school confesses that he likes her. However, he dies mysteriously the next day. Hinata takes action to determine the cause of his death and learns that the boy suffered insidious bullying at school and excessive meddling by his mother. He had a record of delinquency and kept rough company. Hinata is hounded by his mother who believes that she is responsible for her son's suicide, and is driven to the verge of breaking down.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags:
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Death Cash (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yuka Minami is a university student who has the ability to see other people's deaths. One day, her friend suddenly dies. There are 10,000 yen bills littered around her friend’s dead body. There's also black stains on the 10,000 yen bills. Since then, more people around Yuka die mysteriously. Yuka and Detective Takeshi Wakamoto chase the mysterious deaths together.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, detective
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Reverse (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kazuhisa Fukase graduated from a prestigious university, but he leads a boring life. His only strength is making delicious coffee. Whenever he makes coffee, he is reminded of his friend Yoshiki Hirosawa. He was friends with Yoshiki Hirosawa back in their university days, but Yoshiki Hirosawa died on a snowboarding trip 10 years ago. One day, he meets Mihoko Ochi at a coffee shop. He is strongly attracted to her. Kazuhisa Fukase goes to a professor’s retirement celebration at a university. There, he meets Kosuke Asai who went snowboarding with Yoshiki Hirosawa on that fateful trip. Journalist Toshio Ogasawara also appears there. He has been investigating Yoshiki Hirosawa's death.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Medical Team Lady da Vinci’s Diagnosis (2016)
Plot Summary:
Shiho works as a neurosurgeon at Nishitokyo General Hospital. She decides to quit her profession after hallucinating during surgery. Her ex-teacher Masayuki Kitabatake is the director at Tokyo University Hospital and he persuades Shiho to work at his hospital in the diagnosis department which consists of all female doctors. Shiho, who is more stubborn in her will to save other patients, sometimes come in conflicts with the other doctors there, but she cooperates with them to reveal a mysterious malady.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: medical drama, tense, sincere, captivating, suspense
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Good Partner: The Invincible Lawyer (2016)
Plot Summary:
Sakisaka Kento is a lawyer with an outstanding career. He seems cool and handsome, but he is a zealous person who will confront things that are unreasonable and wrong head-on. There are times when he values the words of a single person and not a lawyer. Sakisaki is regarded as the ace of the law firm, but his only weak point is a lawyer at the same firm who also happens to be his ex-wife Natsume Yoshie. He has been raising their daughter Mizuki as a single father since their divorce. A stylish lawyer who holds her head high, Yoshie is down-to-earth and a perfectionist. These two rival lawyers often have well-reasoned legal arguments regarding the cases of their clients. However, when they wander off topic, they will call each other “papa” and “mama” the moment they lose their cool and start quarreling like a couple.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Who Killed Daigoro Tokuyama? (2016)
Plot Summary:
One morning, students find their homeroom teacher Tokuyama Daigoro’s body on the floor of the classroom. A strange school life begins as the students work hard to hide the presence of their teacher's corpse in their classroom. Other teachers from the Academy, their homeroom teacher's wife, his mistress, police, and reporters... One-by-one they visit the classroom and the students face the risk of being discovered. Is it possible to continue to hide it?! And who was it who killed him?!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Midsummer's Equation (2013)
Plot Summary:
Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where he's staying, Yukawa begins to unravel the connections that tie the victim to the activist daughter of the innkeepers, and a precocious boy who first appears on a train—and keeps popping up. It's a Sherlock Holmes mystery with an environmental twist, and one that should please fans of a classic whodunnit.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Crystal's Beating (2016)
Plot Summary:
From a gruesome murder to a series of bomb blasts, it's explosive storytelling from beginning to end! This “Crystal's Beating” (Suishō no Kodō) is the sequel to the immensely popular crime suspense drama series “Cocoon of Stone” (Ishi no Mayu), and the long-awaited second instalment in the “Murder Analysis Team” (Satsujin Bunseki-han) series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Phantom Thief YAMANEKO (2016)
Plot Summary:
Yamaneko is notoriously elusive, but wherever he shows up, enormous amounts of money gets stolen. Evidence of the audacious crime is left scattered all over the place. In every episode, Yamaneko the hero thief throws a splash of “rotten justice” in your face. Pretentiously calling himself a “genius thief,” Yamaneko is arrogant and acts like he's the king of the world. Everything he does is bold and daring, but he remains elusive. There is indeed no match for Yamaneko. He goes by one creed alone—“I will steal but I won’t deprive.” Why does he steal? Just what is he all about?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Ferris Wheel at Night (2013)
Plot Summary:
A drama about three families who live in an upscale neighborhood. On the surface, it appears they have attained wealth and happiness, but trouble brews behind closed doors.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller
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The Locked Room (2012)
Plot Summary:
Enomoto Kei is a security "otaku" working for a security firm, devoted to improving the securities system on a daily basis. He is not an easy person to familiarize oneself with, always collected and calm, unapproachable, a maniac in Physics, Science, Architecture and profound in other basic theoretical foundation. He is certain and proud of the fact that there is no key which he cannot unlock. One day, Kei is asked to help reveal a mystery behind a locked room murderer. While he lacks any interest in solving the mystery, he is inevitably intrigued by the term, "Closed Doors" and decides to take on the position. He works side by side with Aoto Junko and Serizawa Gou, who are lawyers working at a major law firm. Junko is pure and forward, acting upon her instincts while Serizawa is a prideful elitist who sees time as money, and therefore, will not take on any job that is unprofitable. Possessing a vast amount of knowledge and acute insightfulness, Kei is able to unlock the closed doors and unravel the secrets leading to the solution. Never before has there been a drama focused solely on closed doors.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Emergency Interrogation Room (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yukiko Makabe takes a transfer to a special interrogation team "Kintori".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Siren (2015)
Plot Summary:
Satomi Shinobu works in the Mobile Investigation Unit of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The Mobile Investigation Unit conducts the initial investigation at all crime scenes. He works with Inokuma Yuki. They are a couple, but they keep their relationship a secret at work. They both hope to work at the #1 Investigation Station. One day, they meet beautiful Tachibana Kara at the site where a dead body was found. Kara appears at the other crime scenes involving grotesque murders. She shows an interest in Yuki. Satomi Shinobu thinks it's a bad sign for Yuki. To protect his girlfriend from danger, he struggles to find uncover the truth behind the serial murder cases and Kara’s identity.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, manga, detective, suspense thriller
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Atypical Crime Investigator, Hinako Todo (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hinako Todo (Haru) is a first-year detective who graduated from the police academy at the top of her class. She always carries with herself a bottle of shichimi chili peppers which was left by her late mother and sprinkles shichimi over everything she eats. Despite her a bit quirky/cheerful demeanor, she holds dark secrets locked deep within her heart… Hinako became a detective, because she wants to find the line between people who kill and those who don't. Once her "crime-solving switch" is on, nothing can stop Hinako from tackling even the most bizarre crime cases. Armed with her overwhelming memory and unstoppable curiously, will Hinako be able to find answers to her question through seeking to solve various crimes?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Kurokouchi (2013)
Plot Summary:
Detective Keita Kurokouchi (Tomoya Nagase) continues to extort money from politicians whom Keita Kurokouchi has information on. By using his information he is able to crack unsolved cases. Rookie Detective Mayo Seike (Ayame Gouriki) is excellent with her job and also a bit naive. She conducts an internal investigation on Detective Keita Kurokouchi, but they become partners and work on cases together.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa (2016)
Plot Summary:
Criminologist Himura Hideo gets so much pleasure out of being in crime scenes that he's even confessed to having wanted to kill someone. Constantly seeking out the ultimate crime, he is indeed a man with quite a few issues. Mystery writer Arisugawa Arisu, on the other hand, keeps a close eye on Himura's investigations and writes about them but at times completely misses the point. Not at all the type of guy you'd call dependable, Arisugawa nonetheless professes to be the protector of the clumsy Himura. Although these two men appear like they have no business being in crime scenes, they mitigate each other's shortcomings and use their compelling logic to unravel the elaborately woven tricks left behind by the criminals. It's almost as if Himura and Arisugawa use incredible magical powers to tease out unimaginable truths!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Cruel Crowd (2017)
Plot Summary:
21 female high school students are locked in a classroom and their footage is shown all over the world in real time. The only way to escape is to receive many "likes" from the audience.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Files of Young Kindaichi Neo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kindaichi's best friend is involved with the school film club where members are found murdered. Can he protect her before she become the next victim?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Liar Game (2014)
Plot Summary:
This drama is about various contestants take part in a game show with a prize of 10 billion won wherein contestants are encouraged to cheat and lie. The contestants who able to cheat the others will wins the prize but debt if he/she loses the game. Contestants include genius swindler Cha Woo Jin and naive college student Nam Da Jung. Meanwhile, Kang Do Young will play the MC and planner of this game show.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: suspense, dorama, tense, captivating, disturbing, game show, psychological