Movies and TV shows like Tokyo Dogs

If you like "Tokyo Dogs" you are looking for tense, captivating and suspense movies or TV shows about / with police, police officer, investigation, opposites attract, tough cop, police investigation and police detective themes of Action, Comedy and Crime genre shot in Japan or USA.
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Tokyo Dogs (2009)
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Tokyo Dogs (2009)
Original name: 東京DOGS~最悪で最高のパートナー~
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
TV show
Story: Kanade Takakura is an elite detective from the New York Police department. He has a very keen sense of judgement but is cold and inflexible. Kanade lost his father in a murder as a young boy, which drove him to become a detective. Maruo Kudo is a former motorcycle gang member now special detective with the Japanese police department. These two opposite characters team up on a case in which secrets are held by a young lady named Yuki Matsunada.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dorama, detective
Plot: police, police officer, investigation, opposites attract, tough cop, police investigation, police detective, murder investigation, sleuth, police partner, crime investigation, teamwork, forensics, fighting crime, homicide detective, detective inspector, crime solving, partners against crime, uncover truth, unconventional method, japanese police, crimes

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Most similar movies to Tokyo Dogs

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and disturbing films and TV series with plots about crime solving, investigation, police detective, crime investigation, police investigation, uncover truth and sleuth mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Tokyo Dogs: Strike Force (2014), CRISIS: Special Security Squad (2017), Duval and Moretti (2008), Forensic Heroes II (2008), Medical Examiner Dr. Qin (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Strike Force (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A boisterous homicide detective is partnered with a neurotic narc to fight organized crime in the Dutch city of Tilburg.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective
Plot: fighting crime, partners against crime, murder investigation, investigation, police detective, crime investigation, police partner, police, crime solving, police officer, sleuth, detective inspector ...
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95%
CRISIS: Special Security Squad (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Inami and Tamaru work at the Public Security Mobile Investigation Unit Special Investigation Team, a team made up of specialists with different expertise. Inami tackles criminals with showy maneuvers, while Tamaru corners criminals with cool ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, detective, suspense
Plot: police, domestic terrorism, investigation, police investigation, partners against crime, crime investigation, police detective, sleuth, police partner, murder investigation, teamwork, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2017
Place: japan, tokyo
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81%
Duval and Moretti (2008)
Genre: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Inspectors Duval and Moretti, inseparable cops and friends, work under the leadership of Paloma Ruiz, a commissioner with the iron hand, with the help of their favorite informer, Caesar.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: fighting crime, police partner, uncover truth, partners against crime, detective inspector, teamwork, sleuth, forensics, police, police officer, police investigation, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Forensic Heroes II (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Bomb disposal expert Ivan Yeung returns from England and happens to come across a grenade case by accident. Ivan's skills are highly appreciated by senior chemist Ko Yin-Bok and he is invited to join the Forensic Division. Meanwhile, other ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: forensics, police, partners against crime, crime solving, fighting crime, crime investigation, police investigation, co worker co worker relationship, workplace situations, coworker, uncover truth, homicide detective ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Medical Examiner Dr. Qin (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 33 min.
TV show
Story: Medical examiner Qin Ming, together with his assistant and a police detective, solves crimes with his expertise.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, dorama
Plot: medical examiner, police, teamwork, uncover truth, murder investigation, forensics, partners against crime, police investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, partner, investigation ...
Place: china
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64%
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Lucky Seven (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, detective
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, police investigation, crime solving, police detective, detective inspector, unconventional method, murder investigation, workplace, fighting crime, homicide detective ...
Place: japan
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62%
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Roba (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: A new captain comes to take over the police station. Old behaviors and installed management will be questioned and put into debate. Police drama that tells the life of the policemen of the station of Roba, in the south of Helsinki. Winner of the ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, detective
Plot: police, fighting crime, forensics, investigation, partners against crime, police investigation, police station, partner, police partner, police detective, secret revealed, workplace situations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Back Streets (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Arka Sokaklar, a long-running television crime series on Turkish Kanal D, was first broadcast in July 2006. The characters are described, below, using in-universe tone.
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: police, police investigation, fighting crime, partners against crime, detective inspector, teamwork, police detective, crime investigation, crime solving, organized crime, unsolved crime, homicide detective ...
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Fox Grønland (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The series is about police investigators in Greenland police and the assignments they receive. Every day they face new challenges that affect them differently. These consist of inspector Jan Erik Holm, Hassan Mohammed Arif Osman, Trond Olsen and ...
Style: detective, thrilling, tense, captivating, psychological
Plot: police, criminal, police station, crime investigation, police investigation, workplace situations, sleuth, forensics, police detective, uncover truth, police officer, murder investigation ...
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59%
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Trident (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Three aging police officers working in support positions are drawn back to front line operations when their best friend, Xia, is killed on the day of his retirement after asking to tag along on one last drug raid. In the ensuing investigations, the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense, detective
Plot: unsolved crime, workplace, uncover truth, crime investigation, partners against crime, workplace situations, police investigation, forensics, police detective, fighting crime, police station, friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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New Blood (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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.
Style: detective, tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: police partner, investigation, crime solving, homicide detective, investigator, police investigator, police detective, partners against crime, crime investigation, police investigation, detective inspector, teamwork ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Doubles - Futari no Keiji (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: To deal with the increasing violent crime rate in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, a special investigation team is formed at the Shinjuku Police Station. Detective Shunsuke Yamashita and Detective Keiichi Tashiro begin work at the special investigation ...
Style: detective, tense, captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: uncover truth, crime investigation, partners against crime, homicide detective, problem, crime solving, police partner, investigation, police detective, police investigation, sleuth, teamwork ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Mongeville (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Former judge, new investigator! Bordeaux, France. Antoine Mongeville, a former investigating judge, meets a Criminal Police's detective who he will have to work with. Despite their tense relationship and their opposed characters, they will ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, detective
Plot: fighting crime, crime solving, crime investigation, police detective, uncover truth, complex characters, partners against crime, homicide detective, teamwork, murder investigation, criminal, police partner ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
White Collar Blue (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: White Collar Blue is an Australian television series made by Knapman Wyld Television for Network Ten from 2002 to 2003. Starring Peter O'Brien as Joe Hill and Freya Stafford as Harriet Walker, the series dealt with a division of the police ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: police, crime solving, fighting crime, partners against crime, police detective, police partner, crime investigation, investigation, co worker co worker relationship, male female relationship, relationships, workplace situations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Circle (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
TV show
Story: A special team of four is established by the Istanbul Police Department. The team has all kinds of different talents. These four people, who have experienced many things in their past, start working together to solve grisly murders.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, detective
Plot: investigation, partners against crime, teamwork, fighting crime, partner, murder investigation, criminal justice, murder mystery, police partner, police, cold case, sleuth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Paradox (2012)
Genre: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: A bright, young officer joins General Police Headquarters to investigate one of its lead inspectors and the criminal cases he's working on.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: fighting crime, forensics, crime investigation, detective inspector, investigation, police detective, partners against crime, uncover truth, unsolved crime, crime solving, police investigation, police inspector ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Homicide Unit Istanbul (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Istanbul police commissioner Mehmet Özakin is in charge of serious crime, mainly murder investigations, mostly in the Turkish metropolis. A very modern Turk, he uses up to date Western methods, without prejudice, assisted by bachelor Mustafa ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, detective
Plot: investigation, murder, murder investigation, forensics, crime solving, murder mystery, crime investigation, murderer, uncover truth, sleuth, police detective, police investigation ...
Place: istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Last Cop (2015)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: In 1985, when detective Kyogoku Kosuke (Karasawa Toshiaki) was hunting down some criminals, he suddenly found himself in the center of an explosion and ended up falling into a coma. In 2015, after 30 years Kosuke wakes up and has a lot to catch up, ...
Style: suspense, captivating, exciting, tense
Plot: coma, coworker, partners against crime, investigation, crime investigation, police partner, teamwork, police officer, uncover truth, workplace situations, unconventional method, generation gap ...
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50%
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Keishichou Outsider (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Kagawa Eiji is a detective who looks more like a gangster. He previously worked at the Metropolitan Police Department investigating organized crime groups, but he was recently demoted to the Sakuramachi Chuo Police Station without being given a ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, tense
Plot: partners against crime, murder investigation, gangster, police detective, detective inspector, investigation, workplace, crime solving, crime investigation, teamwork, criminal, sleuth ...
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50%
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Galileo (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: 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, ...
Style: detective, tense, suspense, captivating
Plot: female police detective, crime solving, genius, crime investigation, police, police officer, physicist, murder mystery, police investigation, unsolved crime, secret revealed, investigation ...
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48%
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Black & White (2009)
Genre: Crime
Country: Taiwan
TV show
Story: Pi Zi and Ying Xiong are two cops who are as different as day and night. One lives a luxurious lifestyle and does nothing but drink coffee and wait for information from dubious sources to crack his cases. Another believes law and justice are the ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective
Plot: police officer, police detective, teamwork, uncover truth, fighting crime, police investigation, sleuth, crime investigation, investigation, police, police station, detective inspector ...
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48%
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Inspector Max (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: Portugal
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: "Inspector Max" is a Portuguese television series created by Virgílio Castelo e Produções Fictícias and broadcast on TVI. Its story is a dog called "Max", who is caught by Inspector Jorge Mendes' two sons (Fernando ...
Style: sincere, disturbing, humorous, captivating, detective
Audience: family outing
Plot: police dog, dog training, dog, police, human dog relationship, fighting crime, partners against crime, owner dog relationship, cold case, teamwork, murder investigation, crime investigation ...
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47%
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Grace (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: detective, captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing
Plot: detective inspector, police partner, police, british police, police detective, unsolved crime, forensics, sleuth, crime solving, fighting crime, partners against crime, investigation ...
Time: future
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45%
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Fabio Montale (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Fabio Montale, a crime squad superintendent who knows Marseille like the back of his hand. The city crawls with gangs, corrupt policemen, shady politicians and the mafia – all standing in the way of justice.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, detective
Plot: investigation, police, forensics, fighting crime, murder investigation, mafia, police investigation, police detective, sleuth, unsolved crime, homicide detective, uncover truth ...
Place: marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
KDD - Kriminaldauerdienst (2007)
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: KDD - Crime duration service is a German crime series, which was broadcast from 2007 to 2010.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, detective
Plot: police station, police procedural, police, big city life, crime investigation, tough cop, workplace situations, investigation, police detective, forensics, partners against crime, police investigation ...
Place: berlin germany
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44%
Murder Investigation Team (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: detective, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, murder mystery, murder, police, homicide detective, murder investigation, forensics, crime investigation, sleuth, killings, workplace, police detective ...
Place: britain
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43%
The Mallorca Files (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Amongst the vibrant international community of the eponymous Spanish island, a British and a German detective with very different approaches to policing have a clash of personalities. Despite - or perhaps because of - their very different ...
Style: detective, tense, suspense, captivating, crime drama
Plot: police investigation, murder mystery, police officer, investigation, female protagonist, teamwork, policewoman, crime solving, fighting crime, police partner, partners against crime, opposites attract ...
Place: spain
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43%
Little Giants (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: police investigation, crime solving, homicide detective, uncover truth, teamwork, sleuth, police detective, murder investigation, workplace, investigation, crime investigation, forensics ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Serve and Protect (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: Fresh off the Academy, talented rookie officer Alicia joins the police station in Distrito Sur. While she learns the ropes from veteran detective Miralles and streetwise agent Batista, she will try to find out the truth about her mother's death.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, telenovela
Plot: police, police detective, fighting crime, partners against crime, murder investigation, partner, cold case, murder, uncover truth, police partner, police investigation, crime solving ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Sakho & Mangane (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Senegal
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Two cops with very different methods, solving mysterious murder cases surrounded by black magic.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: murder, black magic, unconventional method, investigation, murder investigation, homicide detective, police detective, police officer, paranormal investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, black man ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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