Best Japanese Thriller Movies – page 3

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 7.5
 32K
Death Note (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious ...
Style: anime, serious, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: investigation, serial killer, vigilantism, supernatural, supernatural ability, rivalry, mind game, vigilante, youth, notebook, investigator, interpol ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 81 min.
Story: An upcoming two-hour American animated television film split into two parts. Based on Craig Bartlett's Hey Arnold! TV series, it will serve as a sequel to the series finale in which Arnold found his father's journal and read about the life ...
Style: funny, sweet, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: boy, best friend, unrequited love, friendship, child's point of view, eccentricity, daydreamer, family relations, first love, mischievous children, problem solving, orphan ...
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 7.5
 22K
The Cure (1997)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist ...
Style: psychological, scary, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, investigation, amnesia, hypnosis, monkey, hallucination, interrogation, murder mystery, mind control, stranger, psychosis ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, okinawa japan
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 7.5
 17K
Redline (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The most dangerous and exciting car race in the universe is held only once every five years. And that's tonight. The competitors are lined up at the starting block. In his vehicle, JP, the most daredevil driver on the circuit, is ready for the ...
Style: anime, exciting, stylized, serious, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, race, driving, creature, fight, mafia, chases and races, racing, contests and competitions, danger, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: future
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 7.0
 3K
Rage (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word “ikari” (“rage”) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, rough, psychological thriller ...
Plot: gay, murderer, murder suspect, murder, suspicion, father daughter relationship, island, trust, mistaken identity, single mother, gay relationship, lgbt ...
Place: japan, okinawa, tokyo, okinawa japan
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Unfair: the end (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this, Natsumi's ex-husband, Kazuo Sato (Teruyuki Kagawa) pays a terrible price. Natsumi goes back to the ...
Style: captivating, tense, thrilling, suspenseful
Plot: policewoman, police investigation, police detective, homicide detective, murder investigation, forensics, uncover truth, fighting crime, police officer, threat, police, female protagonist ...
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 5.8
 256K
Battleship (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of ...
Style: exciting, serious, entertaining, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: alien invasion, alien, military, u.s. navy, ufo, battleship, navy, ship, evil alien, invasion, sea battle, battles ...
Time: year 2012, future, 2010s, year 2006, year 2005 ...
Place: hawaii, london, pacific ocean, tokyo, new york ...
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Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu (2013)
Genre: Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: One year after the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find a way to bring him back.
Style: anime, mind bending, serious, psychological, stylized ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: time travel, time machine, sent to the past, mad scientist, impossible love, love and romance, imaginary, love affair, existence paradox, tragic love, parallel world, changing the past or future ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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The World of Kanako (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Showa Fujishima is a former detective. One day, his daughter Kanako, who is a model student, disappears. To find his daughter, he investigates more carefully into his daughter's life. He quickly realizes that his daughter is no saint, but there ...
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, enigmatic, twisted ...
Plot: bullying, dysfunctional family, secret life, addiction, japanese schoolgirl, suicide, wench, missing person, investigation, yakuza, cruelty, juvenile delinquent ...
Place: japan
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War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, futuristic, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, end of the world, survival, disaster, invasion, space and aliens, destruction, creature, evil alien, catastrophe ...
Time: year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, los angeles, boston ...
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 6.7
 35K
Dark Water (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Style: psychological, splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, haunted, nightmare, haunted by the past, danger, losing-it hero, custody, parents and children, family problems, single parent ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: japan, asia
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 7.4
 32K
Summer Wars (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He’s good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time out hanging out in the all-powerful online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has – until the girl of his dreams, ...
Style: anime, humorous, stylized, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virtual reality, artificial intelligence, code breaking, satellite, technology gone awry, teenage life, save the world, family relations, code, relationships, technology, adaptation ...
Time: year 2009, future, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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Stolen Identity 2 (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A couple of months have passed since the serial murder case. A new dead body is found in the same area. Detective Manabu Kagaya tries to find the truth. He goes to see serial killer Yoshiharu Urano in prison.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, corpse, police investigation, law enforcement, police officer, police detective, uncover truth, violent, maniac, danger, killing spree, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Liar Game: The Final Stage (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In Liar game: Final Stage, Players are encouraged to trust each other to win the tournament. However, a mysterious player named X is secretly plotting to sabotage everyone of their chances to win the LGT.
Style: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: mind game, money, rivals, lie, deception, greed, gambling, risk, game, money falling through the air, gambler, rivalry ...
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 6.9
 15K
Noroi (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."
Style: scary, disturbing, tense, serious, spooky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: found footage, curse, investigation, disappearance, demon, fear, slow burn, journalist, danger, supernatural, uncover truth, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
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Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Spain, UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly gets convoluted also facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, entertaining, action adventure ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot: car chase, car, chases and races, car race, street racing, speed, heist, racing, chase, hotshot, car theft, auto racing ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, seattle, spain, england, canary islands ...
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Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (2019)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.
Style: anime, sincere, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot: teenage life, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ex couple relations, love and romance, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, couple relations, teenage love, love triangle, love affair, love story, love interest ...
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 8.4
 52K
High and Low (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Style: suspense, captivating, bleak, black and white, atmospheric ...
Plot: police, ransom, samurai, secrets, tragedy, visceral, character study, psychopath, mistaken identity, chauffeur, rescue, missing person ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s, post world war two
Place: japan
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Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people slowly but steadily walk the road to reconstruction. However, a mysterious illness called Geostigma ...
Style: computer animated, anime, visually appealing, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: heroic mission, danger, motorcycle chase, video game, rescue, fantasy world, creature, androids and robots, fight, enemy, heroes, dystopian future ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, future
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Shaun gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing
Style: exciting, action packed, serious, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, manly, boys' night
Plot: car chase, car, street racing, car race, high school, race, racing, auto racing, foreigner in japan, car racing, chases and races, troublemaker ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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 7.0
 9K
Crows Zero (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself to do it as he reminds him of his youth.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, semi serious, manga ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: gang, gang war, teenage life, youth, high school, yakuza, teenage gang, high school life, friendship, street fight, juvenile delinquent, rivalry ...
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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 5.5
 304
Synesthesia (2005)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Shin is a professional voyeur who provides live camera feeds of everything from the street corner to the public toilet. He is also afflicted freakish phenomenon known as synesthesia - a glitch in his wiring puts his five senses in a blender and ...
Style: psychological, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, serial killer, betrayal, danger, riddles and clues, moral dilemma, teenage life, on the run, sexual relations, mind game, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul (2020)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A continuation of the epic adventure of plucky Riko and Reg who are joined by their new friend Nanachi. Together they descend into the Abyss' treacherous fifth layer, the Sea of Corpses, and encounter the mysterious Bondrewd, a legendary White ...
Style: anime, dark fantasy, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: brutality, underground, adventurer, supernatural ability, supernatural power, teamwork, travel, paranormal, exploration, journey, mutilation, mature ...
Time: 2010s
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 6.6
 59K
Black Rain (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, ...
Style: neo noir, detective, exciting, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, police, culture clash, gunfight, chase, gang war, motorcycle, fish out of water, police investigation, japanese mafia, buddy cop ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place: japan, new york, osaka japan, los angeles, asia ...
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 6.3
 29K
Screamers (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: (SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, twist ending, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, androids and robots, struggle for survival, apocalypse, killer robot, alien planet, robot, space, dystopia, distopia, chaos ...
Time: future, 90s, 21st century
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12 Suicidal Teens (2019)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 12 boys and girls gather at an abandoned hospital to die for various different reasons. There, they find the body of a dead boy. The 12 boys and girl attempt to find the person who killed the boy. During their search, the reasons why they want to ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: suicidal, japanese teenager, abandoned hospital, mysterious man, teenage girl, stranger, teenager, murder, murderer, suicide attempt, trap, murder mystery ...
Place: japan
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 7.2
 23K
Metropolis (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Duke Red has overseen the construction of a massive Ziggurat to extend his power across the whole planet. Tima, a robot-girl built in the image of his deceased daughter, is at the core of these plans. However, after escaping the Duke's clutches ...
Style: anime, futuristic, atmospheric, bleak, cyber ...
Audience: kids
Plot: robot, steampunk, metropolis, artificial intelligence, androids, rebellion, cyberpunk, megalomaniac, heroic mission, save the day, self discovery, uncover truth ...
Time: future, year 2001
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 7.8
 40K
Ninja Scroll (1993)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, hiring his services to those with gold... or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a hideous plot to overthrow the government threatens to end his wandering ways and ...
Style: anime, exciting, manga, sexy, adult anime ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, samurai, ninja, transformation, good versus evil, demon, ninja warrior, supernatural, graphic violence, master warrior, duel, sword fight ...
Time: middle ages, 1800s, ancient times
Place: japan, east asia, asia
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 8.0
 41K
Sanjuro (1962)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of ...
Style: black and white, atmospheric, witty, tense, stylized ...
Plot: samurai, sword fight, corruption, one against many, betrayal, drifter, rescue, martial arts, police investigation, medieval, visceral, culture clash ...
Time: 19th century, year 1962, future, 1800s
Place: japan, asia
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 6.9
 19K
Affliction (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in his slowly disintegrating mentally.
Style: psychological, bleak, rough, independent film, neo noir ...
Plot: snow, small town, alcoholism, dysfunctional family, sheriff, insanity, abusive father, small town life, domestic violence, addiction, drinking, character study ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: new hampshire, usa
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