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A Fading Summer (2015)
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Original name: 翳りゆく夏
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A major newspaper has informally decided to employ a female university student. However, shock ripples within the newspaper because of a weekly magazine’s scoop that she is the daughter of the criminal in a serious case. This was the kidnapping of a newborn baby at a big hospital 20 years ago. The criminal demanded a ransom from the director of the hospital instead of the parents. But after the criminal had the large sum of money in hand, he died in an accident while being pursued by the police. The baby was never found. Kaji Hidekazu, a former hotshot journalist who has become deadwood in the wake of an incident, is ordered by the newspaper to re-investigate the kidnapping case. He finds out the shocking, tragic truth which had been kept under wraps.
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
investigation, kidnapping, newspaper, investigative reporter, child abduction, journalist, missing child, journalism, murder investigation, undercover, investigative journalism, crime investigation, murder mystery, secret, tragedy, family secret, revelation, cover up, cold case, scandal, realism, guilt, identity, moral ambiguity, obsession ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspenseful and suspense films and TV series with plots about investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation, crime solving, moral ambiguity, murder investigation and forensics mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like A Fading Summer: Reverse (2017), Saintly Woman (2014), Fujiko (2015), Crystal's Beating (2016), Partner In Darkness (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
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Time:
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
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Place:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
year after manga master Fumiya Ajima's death, 50 unpublished sketches are discovered. The sketches appear to be the work of Fumiya Ajima, but the sketches shows details from several missing women cases that occurred 35 years earlier. Fumiya ...
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Place:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 49 min.
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Story:
Murder mystery series in which each season begins with the discovery of a dead body, jumps back 35 days (or hours) to introduce the situation and characters, then proceeds forward through time to arrive at the initial scene and reveal the killer.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, crime drama, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
58%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Audience:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
india
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Faroe Islands, Iceland
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Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, creepy, psychological thriller, sinister ...
Plot:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
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Country: Japan
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detective, captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful
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Plot:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
tense, crime drama, captivating, detective, crime thriller
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
suspense, detective, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
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suspense, crime drama, intense, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
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