Origin: Japan
Genre: Thriller
12 content found
Like a Dragon: Yakuza 2024–

Intense characters like Kazuma Kiryu navigate modern Japan's underbelly. The dramatic series explores their lives and criminal underworld ties.

Category: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Ryoma Takeuchi, Kento Kaku, Munetaka Aoki

1,904 Views
Grotesque 2009

A doctor kidnaps a young couple and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.

Category: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Stars: Kotoha Hiroyama, Hiroaki Kawatsure, Shigeo Ôsako

4.7 IMDB Rating 3,183 Views
Tokyo Swindlers 2024–

A team of swindlers gets wind of prime real estate worth 10 billion yen and will stop at nothing to pull off their most ambitious scam yet.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Gô Ayano, Etsushi Toyokawa, Kazuki Kitamura

8.4 IMDB Rating 674 Views
Ring 0: Birthday 2000

In this prequel to Ring, a young Sadako becomes an actress in hopes of escaping her troubled past. But strange visions and terrifying powers begin to manifest...

Category: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Yukie Nakama, Seiichi Tanabe, Kumiko Asô

6.0 IMDB Rating 3,340 Views
Ju-on: The Grudge 2002

A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.

Category: Horror, Thriller

Stars: Megumi Okina, Misaki Itô, Misa Uehara

6.7 IMDB Rating 5,367 Views
The Journalist 2022–

A journalist known as the maverick of news media defiantly chases the truth in this series adaptation of the hit movie of the same name.

Category: Drama, Thriller

Stars: Ryôko Yonekura, Johanna Yukiko Haneda, Ren Hanami

2,633 Views
Ride or Die 2021

Rei helps the woman she's been in love with for years escape her abusive husband. While on the run, their feelings for each other catch fire.

Category: Drama, Romantic, Thriller

Stars: Kiko Mizuhara, Honami Satô

2,498 Views
Mother 2020

Her name is Akiko and she is a fun-loving single mother to a young schoolboy. He needs her. She needs men. Specifically, she needs sex and attention from men and almost any man would do so ...

Category: Thriller

Stars: Masami Nagasawa, Sadao Abe, Halo Asada, Sho Gunji

7.99 IMDB Rating 2,988 Views
A Night in Nude: Salvation 2010

Jiro (Naoto Takenaka) is a man who can do anything for you for a price. Part odd jobs man and part private eye he takes on tasks as simple as clearing out storage lockers to tracking down lost items. That's what he's asked to do by a beautiful young woman (Hiroko Sato) who shows up at his warehouse living space one afternoon. This young woman asks Jiro to help her track down a lost Rolex watch that she says was accidentally thrown out of a helicopter while she was scattering the ashes of her late father. Jiro knows the story isn't true, but he needs the money so he and the young woman begin poking around miles of woodland in the proverbial search for a needle in a haystack. Miraculously Jiro finds the wrist watch, but it looks to be caked in rotting meat. Needy but not stupid Jiro hands the watch over to a sympathetic police woman he knows for analysis. Little does Jiro know that the discovery of this Rolex will lead to another case, one filled with violence, sex and danger, one that will lead him directly into the heart of darkness.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Daisuke Iijima,Harumi Inoue,Machiko Kochi,Kura

6.3 IMDB Rating 4,313 Views
As the Gods Will 2014

A 2nd-year high school student named Shun Takahata lives an ordinary teenage life until one day he's suddenly forced to participate in a series of children's games such as "Daruma-san ga Koronda" with death as the penalty for losing. With no knowledge of who's behind the games, he's left with no other choice but to keep winning as his only means of protecting himself and his childhood friend, Ichika. Meanwhile, a troubled classmate named Takeru seems to actually be relishing the opportunity to get other students killed.

Category: Sci-Fi, Thriller

Stars: Shôta Sometani,Ryûnosuke Kamiki,Lily Franky,Sôta Fukushi

6.5 IMDB Rating 3,607 Views
The Bad Sleep Well 1960

In Kurosawa's HAMLET-like story of corporate scandal in post-war Japan, a young man attempts to use his position at the heart of a corrupt company to expose the men responsible for his father's death.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Toshirô Mifune,Masayuki Mori,Kyôko Kagawa,Tatsuya Mihashi

8.1 IMDB Rating 2,883 Views
Inugami 2001

Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.

Category: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

Stars: Yûki Amami,Atsuro Watabe,Eugene Harada,Shiho Fujimura

6.1 IMDB Rating 3,036 Views