Items10The creator’s order
  1. 1Cold Case: Door of Truth (2016)Cold Case: Door of Truth (2016) 7.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 22 Oct 2016Yuri Ishikawa and her Kanagawa team revisit unsolved crimes in this Japanese adaptation of the American format. Reopened interviews and the distance between past and present give the investigations their emotional weight. A dependable starting point if you like the sense that a case changes because…0
  2. 2dele (2018)dele (2018) 7.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 27 Jul 2018A service that deletes clients’ digital records after death draws two very different men into the lives behind the files. What they discover can complicate the instruction simply to erase everything. The episodic mysteries work through traces, conversations and questions of privacy, making this…0
  3. 3Gannibal (2022)Gannibal (2022) 7.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 28 Dec 2022A police officer posted to a mountain village finds that its apparent hospitality conceals an intimidating local order. Daigo is an outsider with his own problems, and access to reliable information is part of the danger. Choose it for escalating folk-horror suspense and a fallible protagonist; the…0
  4. 4Influence (2021)Influence (2021) 7.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 20 Mar 2021A woman’s account of crimes involving three friends draws a novelist into a troubling history. The perspective matters as much as the events, with knowledge moving unevenly between the women and the person hearing their story. This compact adaptation of Fumie Kondo’s novel is a good choice for…0
  5. 5Burn the House Down (2023)Burn the House Down (2023) 6.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 13 Jul 2023Anzu takes a housekeeping job under a false name to investigate the fire that destroyed her family’s life. Her access is intimate but precarious, and the household has its own versions of the past. Watch it for domestic surveillance, concealed loyalties and a young woman learning how little an…0
  6. 6Midnight Ferris Wheel (2013)Midnight Ferris Wheel (2013)First aired 18 Jan 2013A murder in an affluent neighbourhood exposes the strain behind supposedly enviable family lives. Adapted from Kanae Minato’s novel, it makes parents, children and neighbours part of a shifting field of suspicion. The attraction is the gap between what each household presents and what its members…0
  7. 7Informa (2023)Informa (2023) 6.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 20 Jan 2023A magazine reporter is paired with a well-connected informant and pulled towards crimes far beyond his usual work. Their unequal knowledge gives the partnership tension: having access to a source does not mean understanding his motives. Pick this for a more dangerous, kinetic investigation, with…0
  8. 8Light of My Lion (2024)Light of My Lion (2024) 8.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 11 Oct 2024Two brothers’ carefully established routine is disrupted by a small boy who calls himself Lion. Finding out who has left him there becomes inseparable from caring for him and noticing signs that something is wrong. This is the warmest human drama here, with Hiroto and his autistic brother Michito…0
  9. 9MIU404 (2020)MIU404 (2020) 7.2/10 on IMDbFirst aired 26 Jun 2020Two mobile-investigation officers have a short window to establish what has happened before handing a case onwards. Their contrasting instincts make listening, fieldwork and judgement more interesting than effortless deduction. Ayano Go and Hoshino Gen carry a lively partnership, while the cases…0
  10. 10Unnatural (2018)Unnatural (2018) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 12 Jan 2018A forensic team investigates unnatural deaths, but a technical finding is only part of understanding how someone died and why it matters. The colleagues’ different skills and imperfect working relationships keep the science grounded in human consequences. A useful touchstone when you want expertise…0