Japanese Movies by Genre: Mystery

• Himitsu - Top Secret (2016)

  Director: Keishi Otomo
  Plot: In the middle of the 21st century, advanced brain-scanning technology is developed which enables government and police officials to retrieve memories from subjects whether they're alive or dead. Investigators based at the National Research Institute of Police Science's 9th Forensics Laboratory face various moral dilemmas as they weigh people's right to privacy against the importance of solving crimes.
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  Tsumi no Yohaku (2015)

  Director: Yukichi Otsuka
  Plot: Satoshi Ando is University psychology professor who raised his daughter Kana on his own since the death of his wife many years earlier. One day, Kana dies by falling from the balcony of her high school and it remains unclear whether the incident was an accident or suicide. Ando is overcome with despair and feels guilty that, as a psychology expert, he didn't recognize any warning signs. Wanting to believe his daughter's death was an accident, he contacts one of Kana's high school friends to find out more.Yoshimoto will play a girl named Saki who sits atop the school's social ladder and is on the verge of breaking into the entertainment industry. Both beautiful and intelligent, Saki is able to manipulate adults and treats her friends like underlings. When Ando discovers Saki was involved in his daughter's death, he becomes determined to make sure she doesn't get away with it as a battle of wits ensues.
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  The Case of Hana & Alice (2015)

  Director: Shunji Iwai
  Plot: 9th grader Tetsuko “Alice" Arisugawa transfers to Ishinomori Junior High School and hears a rumor involving a murder committed by four people a year earlier. She also discovers that the house next door to her is feared by her classmates, who refer to it as “Hanayashiki" (the flower garden). Alice decides to investigate Hanayashiki, and its there where she meets Hana Arai, a girl who has recently been staying home from school.
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  Initiation Love (2015)

  Director: Yukihiko Tsutsumi
  Plot: In the late 1980s, a job-hunting college student in Shizuoka Prefecture named Suzuki begins an awkward romance with a dental hygienist named Mayu. However, when Suzuki finds a job he moves to Tokyo and the two are forced into a long-distance relationship. Over time, their relationship starts to fall apart as Suzuki begins spending time with another woman named Miyako.
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  Five Minutes to Tomorrow (2014)

  Director: Isao Yukisada
  Plot: Ryo is a clockmaker living in Taipei. One day he meets a beautiful woman named Maggie who enlists his help in coming up with a gift idea for her identical twin sister Michelle. In fact, the resemblance is so striking that they often switch places to confuse Ryo. Before long, Ryo begins dating Maggie in spite of being keenly aware that Maggie is secretly in love with Michelle's boyfriend Leon.Maggie and Michelle decide to go on a trip before Michelle's wedding to Leon, but they get into an accident and only Michelle survives. Ryo buries his feelings and leads a solitary life until one day he's contacted by Leon, who's distraught because he's become convinced Michelle was actually the one who died in the accident and Maggie has taken her place. Worse yet, she doesn't even seem to have a grasp on her own identity.
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  Embers (2014)

  Director: Junpei Matsumoto
  
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  Chonoryoku Kenkyu-bu no 3-nin (2014)

  Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita
  Plot: Three members of a certain high school club investigate incidents of UFOs, ESP, and other unexplained phenomena.
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  Yokokuhan (2015)

  Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
  Plot: A man named Gates heads a mysterious group called "Shinbunshi" who don newspaper masks and post internet videos informing the public of their crimes of justice against people they deem guilty of things not punishable by law. Meanwhile, Erika Yoshino, an elite inspector from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's cyber crime division attempts to track down the members of Shinbunshi and put a stop to their crimes. However, the group gradually begins to win over the support of the public with their videos.
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  ST MPD Scientific Investigation Squad: The Movie (2015)

  Director: Toya Sato
  Plot: A genius hacker named Tooru Kaburaki orchestrates a prison break and the discovery of a charred corpse leads to Akagi being arrested as the prime suspect. ST is officially disbanded, but when Akagi escapes from jail, police are ordered to track down all of the former ST members. Yurine believes in his heart that Akagi is innocent and they soon begin investigating a new form of computer virus called "Fugin" which becomes a key to the case. Eventually they track down a mysterious woman named Naomi Doujima who once worked with Kaburaki and has vital information about the virus.
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  Joker Game (2015)

  Director: Yu Irie
  Plot: On the eve of World War II, an international Asian city becomes a hub of a high-stakes "spy game" as spies from countries such as Japan, the UK, the Soviet Union, and Germany compete to give their respective countries any possible advantage in world diplomacy.Kato is about to receive a severe punishment for disobeying his superiors when he's scouted by a man named Colonel Yuuki to become a spy for the secret intelligence agency D Kikan. He endures rigorous training and is eventually given his first mission as a secret agent. Kato must infiltrate the multicultural city referred to "Devil's Metropolis" in order to take a critical "black notebook" from U.S. Ambassador Graham.Kato attempts to find the notebook along with a mysterious woman named Rin. Meanwhile, D Kikan gets caught up in a fierce rivalry with a radical faction of the Imperial Japanese Army.