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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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Sherlock: Untold Stories (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in present day Tokyo, Shishio Homare (Dean Fujioka) works as a freelancer crime consultant. From an early age, Shishio Homare has been fascinated with how people become criminals and in original sin. He is a genius, but he also has an impulse to commit crimes. Shishio Homare works on cases which interests him among police or customer requests. Meanwhile, Junichi Wakamiya (Takanori Iwata) is a psychiatrist. He is smart and cool-headed. Due to a case, Junichi Wakamiya gets involved with Shishio Homare. At first, Junichi Wakamiya thinks Shishio Homare is ignorant and arrogant, but, as they work together, Junichi Wakamiya gets comfortable with Shishio Homare.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, entertaining
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Bitter Blood (2014)
Plot Summary:
A rookie detective assigned to the Ginza Police Station finds himself partnered with his estranged father. Together with the rest of the team, they solve crimes as an old adversary plots to take revenge on father and son.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, detective
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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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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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Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (2020)
Plot Summary:
Comic creator Rohan Kishibe, along with his partner-cum-editor, Kyōka Izumi, challenge various incidents beyond human knowledge.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, tense, captivating, suspense
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The Memorandum of Kyoko Okitegami (2015)
Plot Summary:
Okitegami Kyoko is a beautiful private detective who has a deep love for money. She is also known as the Forgetful Detective. Her memory is reset when she sleeps at night, which means she can strictly adhere to confidentiality requirements. She solves all her cases within a day, whatever they may be. She is the world's fastest detective! There is something really important that Kyoko must never forget, and it is written on her body with a magic pen. “I am Okitegami Kyoko, detective. My memory is reset after one day.” Meanwhile, even though Yakusuke Kakushidate has a crush on Kyoko Okitegami, he is always mistaken by her as the culprit of a case. No matter how close he gets to Kyoko, she totally forgets about him by the next day.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Death Notify (2014)
Plot Summary:
A series of serial killings is exposed and creates a stir among the public. A killer called "Darker" has been leaving a death notification card after killing scumbags who evaded the law. To counter the provocation of the mysterious killer, the police creates a special investigation team.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries (2015)
Plot Summary:
Aurora/Roe Teagarden, a librarian and amateur sleuth, investigates and solves murders with help from her friends in Real Murders Club.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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MR.BRAIN (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ryusuke Tsukumo is a quirky, yet brilliant neuroscientist working for the National Research Institute of Police Science. Wielding a unique perspective and psychology, Tsukumo tackles the nation's most baffling crimes and scandals, going head-to-head with the most brilliant and twisted criminal minds. But his eccentricities and poor social timing can also aggravate people and circumstances, further complicating matters.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2022)
Plot Summary:
A dying man's enigmatic last words send vicar's son, Bobby Jones, and his socialite friend, Lady Frankie Derwent, on a crime-solving adventure.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Stone's Cocoon (2015)
Plot Summary:
The body of a person who died an unnatural death is discovered encased in mortar like concrete in the basement of an abandoned building. Why was the person murdered this way? The next day, the investigation task force receives a phone call from the criminal who calls himself Tremi during a meeting to discuss the investigation of the case. Then, in a short time after her transfer to the First Investigative Division, Kisaragi Toko becomes the negotiator. Tremi mocks and provokes the police while offering hints regarding the murder. A second murder soon occurs just as Tremi had warned. The victim's head has been covered with concrete as they had expected. What is the criminal's motive and why is the criminal fixated with concrete? The criminal's surprising actual target soon emerges.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Be Reborn (2022)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, suspense, detective
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Galileo (2007)
Plot Summary:
Galileo is a Japanese television drama based on Detective Galileo, a novel by mystery writer Keigo Higashino. It narrates the events and cases encountered by Kaoru Utsumi, a rookie detective, and Manabu Yukawa, a university associate professor, while the two pair up to solve many mysterious cases. Galileo SP was aired on October 4, 2008 on the same day as the release of the film The Devotion of Suspect X. A second series began airing on Fuji TV on April 15, 2013. The second movie, titled Midsummer's Equation, premiered in both Japan and Hong Kong on June 29, 2013.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense
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Medical Examiner Dr. Qin: The Survivor (2018)
Plot Summary:
龙番市发生连环杀人案，死者均为女性，尸体无一例外的丢失了身体的某一部位。警法五人组不断穿梭于各大案发现场和解剖室中，寻找背后真相。暗黑的屋子，诡异的灯光，整齐摆放的透明玻璃罐里装的竟然是丢失的心脏！接二连三的命案，迷雾重重的案情，秦明将如何为逝者代言，讲述真相？面对不断杀人的凶手，最后的幸存者到底是谁？让秦明自责没有抓到的凶手和本案是否有关联？隐藏在死者身上的十字架和最后那句“十年前那个人回来了”究竟代表了什么？.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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The Strip (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Strip is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Nine Network. The series premiered on the Nine Network at 8:30pm on 4 September 2008 but was moved to a later 10:30pm timeslot from 13 November 2008. The show did not return for a second season, due to disappointing ratings. The Strip was released on DVD on 4 July 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Grace (2021)
Plot Summary:
Brighton based Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is a hard-working police officer who has given his life to the job, but his career is currently at rock bottom. He’s fixated by the disappearance of his beloved wife, Sandy, and running enquiries into long forgotten cold cases with little prospect of success. Following another reprimand for his unorthodox police methods, Grace is walking a career tightrope and risks being moved from the job he loves most.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dalgliesh (2021)
Plot Summary:
A recent widower and acclaimed poet, enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh employs his exceptional empathy and insight to plumb the darker depths of the human psyche while investigating complex crimes in 1970s England.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, disturbing, crime drama
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Lucky Seven (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Seven Rakkīsebun is a 2012 Japanese television drama broadcast by Fuji Television from January 16 to March 19, 2012. It stars Jun Matsumoto and Eita.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
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Murder Investigation Team (2003)
Plot Summary:
Murder Investigation Team is a British police procedural drama series produced by the ITV network as a spin-off from the long-running series, The Bill. The series is based around the cases of a Murder Investigation Team, who are linked to the Sun Hill borough of London, as featured in The Bill.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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Little Giants (2017)
Plot Summary:
Shinichiro Kosaka is a detective of the major cases unit of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and on the path to become captain of the unit when he makes a mistake during an investigation. Kosaka was subsequently demoted to precinct duty, where he finds his new colleagues taking on small cases tirelessly with a sense of justice untinged by workplace politics and internal disputes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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New Blood (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two junior investigators come together against a new breed of criminal, the uber rich and powerful corporations, individuals and governments who hide behind legitimate facades.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, crime drama, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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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 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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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