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High School Entrance Exam (2012)
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Original name: 高校入試
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Kyoko, a newly-appointed English teacher at a rural but well-respected, prestigious prefectural high school, had spent her childhood and high school years overseas before returning to Japan. Because she lived abroad for a long time, she cannot understand the old-fashioned ideas peculiar to Japan and tends to be frank about what she thinks. On the eve and the day of the school entrance examination, various incidents occur. There is the spectre of someone attempting to wreck the examination for some motive. Everyone present is a potential suspect and the truth remains shrouded in mystery to the end.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, talky
Plot:
high school, teacher, school, murder investigation, murderer, investigation, violence, friendship, youth, murder, friends, investigator, chase, murder mystery, escapades, rivalry, society, who done it, law enforcement, japanese woman, mysterious man, partner, police investigation, evidence, police detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, suspenseful and disturbing films and TV series with plots about evidence, murder, murder mystery, who done it, murder investigation, police investigation and partners against crime mostly in Drama, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like High School Entrance Exam: The Long Goodbye (2014), Criminal Justice (2019), Eken Babu (2018), The Ending Planner (2012), The Imperial Coroner (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min.
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Story:
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 50 min.
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Place:
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Country: India
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
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49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 40 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
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Similarity:
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Country: Japan
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
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Detective Conan: Shinichi Kudo's Written Challenge! The Mystery of the Legendary Strange Bird (2011)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: Singapore
Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 60 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
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Place:
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Country: China
Duration: 43 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 400 min.
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Country: Greece
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Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Poland
Duration: 43 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story:
When Keisuke Nakamura was a high school student, his mother was accused of killing a girl and then his mother committed suicide. 12 years later, Keisuke Nakamura tries to find the girl's real killer and also take revenge upon those responsible ...
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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