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1. Tokyo Vice (2022– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo takes on one of the city's most powerful crime bosses.
Stars: Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller, Shô Kasamatsu
Votes: 46,039
2. A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics (2024– )
TV-14 | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Sosuke Kaburaya is a detective struggling to make ends meet. While on a case, he happens upon Sara da Odin, a princess from another world who wields magical powers. Sara quickly adjusts to ... See full summary »
Stars: Yuka Maihara, Hayato Kimura, Shintarou Kuroki, Ayako Mitani
Votes: 47
3. Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Tony Ka Fai Leung, Chao Deng, Carina Lau, Bingbing Li
Votes: 11,886 | Gross: $0.46M
4. Ghost (2012)
60 min | Mystery, Thriller
Kim Woo Hyun is the only son of a high-ranking police officer. He graduates police academy with honors. After being assigned to the CID, he finds himself entrenched in a cat and mouse game with a faceless enemy in the cyber world.
Stars: Kim Yun-tae, So Ji-seob, Lee Yeon-hee, Jang Hyun-sung
Votes: 655
5. Why Didn't I Tell You a Million Times? (2023)
45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Reunited as adults, two childhood friends fall madly in love and won't let anything - not even death - tear them apart, in this supernatural love story.
Stars: Moeka Hoshi, Takeru Satoh, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Shim Eun-kyung
Votes: 244
6. Kei×Yaku: Dangerous Partners (2022)
45 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Years ago, the disappearance of a senior investigator goes unsolved and the file closed. Renewed interest in the case leads to rookie investigator Kinoshita Ichiro to suspect gang-leader Hanabusa Shiro, beginning their odd relationship.
Stars: Nobuyuki Suzuki, Atsuhiro Inukai, Chiaki Kuriyama, Yoshimi Tokui
Votes: 185
7. Di Renjie zhi fei tou Rakkhasa (2020)
91 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
At the time of the Seven Temple Ceremony, a giant flying head appeared in the sky, and people panicked. Di Ren Jie and Helian Xiu Tu joined forces to investigate the case.
Director: Huang He | Stars: Guojun Jiang, Ruoxi Li, Liqun Luo, Kristy Yeung
Votes: 20
8. Di Renjie zhi hui gui chimu (2021)
93 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
During the Empress Wu Zetian's reign, Detective Dee supervised the case of "Red-eyed monster" causing trouble and eliminated Prince Wu Minzhi, who tried to usurp power and seize the throne, preserving the stability of Jiangshan.
Director: Zhihong Chen | Stars: Meng Fan, Minghan He, Qiwei He, Guanpeng Wang
Votes: 83
9. Tongtian Di Renjie (2017)
30 min | Action, Adventure, History
This drama follows Empress Wu Zetian, Emperor Gaozong and Di Renjie on his various exploits covering cases from the Buddhist Monastery to the events leading to the deposing of Empress Wang to plots to usurp the throne.
Stars: Jialun Ren, Qingzi Kan
10. Angel Heart (2015)
55 min | Mystery
Saeba Ryo is a private detective and gun-for-hire who acts as the arbiter of justice. He is an urban bounty hunter out for good not exclusively using or deploying noble tactics. His partner... See full summary »
Stars: Takaya Kamikawa, Ayaka Miyoshi, Saki Aibu, Shôhei Miura
Votes: 37
11. Di Renjie: The Headless General (2018)
87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In A.D. 684, The Headless General, A giant killing party at the imperial palace of the Great Reich. One day ahead of the grand coronation of the first empress WU in Chinese history, a giant... See full summary »
Director: Yulong Guo | Stars: Ping'an Li, Zeyu Li, Yichen Liu, Yanfei Pan
Votes: 8
12. Siren (2015)
54 min | Mystery
Shinobu Satomi (Tori Matsuzaka) works in the Mobile Investigation Unit of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The Mobile Investigation Unit conducts the initial investigation at all ... See full summary »
Stars: Tôri Matsuzaka, Fumino Kimura, Nanao, Hiromitsu Kitayama
Votes: 72
13. Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero (2023)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Kimichika Kazama (Takuya Kimura) works as a detective instructor. Through a system called "Kazama Dojo," a rookie detective is paired with Kimichika Kazama and they investigate an actual ... See full summary »
Stars: Eiji Akaso, Yui Aragaki, Mayu Hotta, Takuya Kimura
Votes: 34
14. Cops 'n Robbers (2018)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
Rookie police detective Tsutomu Madarame and legendary thief Smoky Crow team up as forbidden buddies to tackle a variety of difficult cases.
Stars: Kento Nakajima, Ken'ichi Endô, Tomoya Nakamura, Itsuji Itao
Votes: 21
15. MOZU (2014– )
Action, Crime, Drama
Police superintendent Kuraki investigates a killer's existence alongside detectives Osugi and Miki after losing his wife in a bombing tied to a secret mission that shakes the nation, with Miki holding the key to solving the incident.
Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yôko Maki, Yusuke Hirayama
Votes: 149
16. The Files of Young Kindaichi Neo (2014– )
54 min | Mystery
High school student Kindaichi Hajime "Yamada Ryosuke" solves a variety of difficult cases that he gets entangled in with the deductive powers inherited from his grandfather, the famous detective Kindaichi Kosuke.
Stars: Ryôsuke Yamada, Haruna Kawaguchi, Daiki Arioka, Yôsuke Asari
Votes: 126
17. Di Renjie zhi yu huo qilin (2022)
Action, Drama, History
Stars: Yixin Huang, Yu Lu, Luqing Wang
Votes: 8
18. In'nai keisatsu (2024– )
Drama, Mystery
Set within a hospital police box which deals with patient disputes, complaints and other various duties, the story centers on Murai Osamu, a hospital-internal detective, and Sakakibara ... See full summary »
Stars: Kenta Kiritani, Masachika Ichimura, Kôji Seto, Neru Nagahama
19. The Weather Girl Knows (2013– )
54 min | Comedy, Mystery
Haruko Abe (Emi Takei) received her meteorologist license at the age of 11. She is a genius weather-woman. Haruko now works as a meteorologist on a morning information program. Due to her ... See full summary »
Stars: Emi Takei, Tadayoshi Ohkura, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Nozomi Sasaki
Votes: 27
20. Shen duan Di Renjie (2010– )
Drama, History, Mystery
Stars: Zhong Lü, Zijian Zhang, Shanshan Qu, Miki Suzuki
Votes: 24
21. Di Renjie zhi xiyu yao ji (2018)
65 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Director: Wei Wang | Stars: Qimeng Cheng, Jiang Zhen Hao, Eva Li, Yang Qifang
22. Nemesis (2021)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Naoki Kazama (Sho Sakurai) is a private detective and he works at Private Detective Office Nemesis in Yokohama. The private detective office is run by Kazuaki Kurita. Naoki Kazama is known ... See full summary »
Stars: Suzu Hirose, Shô Sakurai, Yôsuke Eguchi, Tôru Nakamura
Votes: 36
23. Lucky Seven (2012)
54 min | Drama
7 detectives, each with their own unique style in problem solving, work at the same detective agency. Each detective is in charge of their own case file until one day, the cases somehow ... See full summary »
Stars: Jun Matsumoto, Riisa Naka, Nanako Matsushima, Yô Ôizumi
Votes: 131
24. Di Renjie - Nine Dragons Coffin (2022)
70 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
New fantastic adventure about the judicial investigator Di Ren Jie. This time he investigates the strangest event: A grave robber who opened the cursed coffin with the golden dragon emblem and turned into a zombie.
Director: Tao Yuan | Stars: Wei Wei, Li Zhen An, Jerry Cheng Chang, Li Geng
Votes: 8
25. Di Renjie zhi lunhui tu (2018)
79 min | Action, Drama, History
Director: Huaifu Chen | Star: Ocean Wang
Votes: 11
26. Di Renjie zhi miwu shen dou (2021 Video)
77 min | Action, Drama, History
A locust plague that was rare in a century has invaded the land of Wuzhou. Empress Wu Ze Tian orders the delivery of relief money to the disaster area, but on the way, tens of thousands of ... See full summary »
Director: Leyang Yan | Stars: Gang He, Zhu Jiaxi, Choi Wah 'Rain' Lee, Hei Lui
27. Rasen no Meikyuu: DNA Kagaku Sousa (2021)
Crime
Jin Jinbo is an associate professor who is a DNA expert and has a hobby of creating a personal DNA database. He is often called a weirdo because he sometimes has erratic behavior when he is... See full summary »
Stars: Ken Yasuda, Keiko Matsuzaka, Kei Tanaka, Kana Kurashina
Votes: 10
28. Teppei 1990 (2012– )
60 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
In 1990, 13-year-old Teppei Kogure (Taketo Tanaka) was saved by a detective from the investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Since that incident, Teppei dreamed ... See full summary »
Stars: Masahiro Matsuoka, Arata Furuta, Mirei Kiritani, Taishi Nakagawa
Votes: 6
29. Di Renjie zhi duo hun mengyan (2020)
Action, Drama, History
Director: Tao Yuan | Stars: Tingting Gan, Gang He, Chunzhong Zhang, Jialin Zhang
Votes: 16
30. Death Cash (2016– )
30 min | Mystery
As Yuka Minami's classmates start to die one by one after using the cursed money, she and detective Takeshi Wakamoto solve the mystery of its curse and its origin.
Stars: Jurina Matsui, Shigeyuki Totsugi, Shôno Hayama, Yurika Nakamura
Votes: 25