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The Last Man: The Blind Profiler

Hiromi Minami is a US FBI agent on temporary loan to Japan. He’s blind but dubbed “the last man" for his ability to crack tough cases with keen analysis and honed senses. Shintaro Godo is a field cop with a top arrest record who shuns his pedigree as police commissioner’s son. The two make for a hig...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Human
  • Mystery
  • School

Friends Game

Which is more important, friendship or money?

Yuichi Katagiri, a high school student, is abducted with four of his friends and forced to participate in a "Friends Game" to pay off a debt he was suddenly saddled with.
The game is supposed to be easy to beat as long as you have friendship, but for...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Drama (Series)
  • Human

GUARDIAN OF THE MARKET

Tsutomu Koshobu, a genius, and a character who is always based around the idea of logic, and Kaede Shirokuma, an honest and emotionally driven former detective are the main characters. As members of the Fair Trade Commission’s sixth examination division (aka. ‘Dairoku’), they crack down on violation...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Mystery
  • SF

Octo: Mind Investigator Akari Shinno

Octo is a detective drama that fits the current times where crimes with ambiguous motives are increasing. Unlike existing detective stories focusing on finding criminals and working out tricks, Octo spotlights finding motives, the emotions that triggered the crimes.

An eccentric female detective ...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Family
  • Human

Close Tail -Detective Academy-

Tailing, bugging, stakeouts...this riveting human drama realistically portrays the work of private detectives, charting the growth of a group of trainee detectives.

University student Tasuku graduates from university without a career path planned.
Returning home, he finds his father Jinpei has a...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Entertainment
  • Mystery
  • Suspense

INVISIBLE

A mystery figure dubbed “Invisible” conspires with criminals as an underworld “crime coordinator.”
Once thought of as just an urban legend, Invisible hijacks the airwaves and warns of a bombing.
Nobody imagined it would be a woman by the name “Kiriko.”
“I’ll give you my information,” she says,...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Drama (Series)
  • Human
  • Mystery

My Ex-Boyfriend's Last Will

The protagonist of this series is Reiko Kenmochi, who works at a major law firm in Japan. As a lady with an immaculate physical appearance, she’s also a talented lawyer who wears fancy suits and clicks her heels as she winds her way through the city.
Reiko has saved her clients from many difficult ...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Drama (Series)

Kei x Yaku - Dangerous Buddy

Three years ago, a video of a female public security investigator being kidnapped and assaulted was uploaded to the internet. Her name was Rion Nakaba, and the video caused a huge uproar- but it was instantly deleted. This incident was called the “Joker Case” within the Public Safety Bureau, and for...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Entertainment
  • Thriller

Heaven and Hell: Soul Exchange

This drama about what happens when fate and love collide is non-stop entertainment!
Ayako is a gung-ho young detective in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s violent crimes unit who’s eager to make her name. One day she gets her big break: the chance to arrest a murder suspect single-handed...

  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Comedy
  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Drama (Series)
  • Entertainment
  • Family
  • For Women
  • Human
  • Martial arts
  • Suspense
  • Thriller

Danger-Less Detectives

Solve a brutal crime… Never! And avoid risk at all costs. Why? Because it's not worth the time and effort.
Introducing a detective drama for the new Reiwa era featuring two hot detectives who are the most passive you'll ever see in a detective series. They never solve any crimes, yet they're super ...

  • Action
  • Detective
  • Detective

Diver-Special Investigation Unit-

The spread of criminal organisations around the city is out of control - Kyoto police are forced to take action. A special task force has been set up and elite undercover operatives known as DIVER are sent to infiltrate the underworld and conduct dangerous undercover investigations.
Inspector Kuros...

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  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Entertainment

K2: Dodgy Badge Brothers

Ryuichi Kanzaki is a serious, career detective with a touch of humanism who is mortified when he is assigned a new partner in Kenji Kuroki, an ultra hard-nosed, rough-and-tumble cop. With their diametrically-opposed personalities and views on life, they form an odd pair battling crime in highly-sati...

  • Action
  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Suspense

Detective Novice

What happens when a nerd and a jock become buddy cops at a police academy? An action-packed crime suspense that shatters all expectations!


Totally inexperienced, all they have to fall back on are their youth, passion, and the lessons they're learning in class--and yet the two are already gettin...

  • Action
  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Entertainment

MIU404

The No. 4 Mobile Investigation Unit was quickly pieced together as part of reform efforts to overhaul the police organization. There, a wild maverick of a cop, Ibuki, gets paired with a serenely composed partner, Shima. Their role is to be on call 24 hours to fill in gaps in police shifts by investi...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Human

Absolute Zero 4

This is the story of a special mission squad that obstructs crime before it happens.

The squad infiltrates, pursues, and investigates “future criminals”, who were deduced by analyzing all kinds of big data?security camera videos, emails, phone calls, text messages on social media, and more.
In ...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Mystery

Alibi Breaker

“I will solve your mystery. 5000 yen per case.”

In a local shopping street in Nano prefecture, far from the metropole, young Tokino Mitani runs a clocksmith that she inherited from her grandfather all by herself. Her main job is to repair watches and clocks, but she is about to start a side busin...

  • Detective
  • Detective

Police and Prosecutor

A new detective buddy drama is coming up! An ex-gymnastic teacher working as a police detective and a super-elite Tokyo University graduate prosecutor are to become a bizarre buddy. They always clash head-on, but eventually they find themselves sharing the same chemistry within themselves.

Nakaid...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Drama (Series)
  • Mystery
  • Suspense
  • Thriller

A BUTTERFLY EFFECT –The Murder Analysis Team-

What is the meaning behind the blue flower planted in the victims’ necks by the culprit? The Murder Analysis Team faces its most puzzling and brutal case ever!!

Hideaki Takano (MUNETAKA AOKI), who Detective Touko Kisaragi (FUMINO KIMURA) trusts more than anybody else, is being transferred to the ...

  • Comedy
  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Mystery

Time Limit Investigator 2019

- “Ex” criminal whose crime has reached the statute of limitation vs. Kiriyama, who regards investigation as his hobby- The legendary comedy-mystery “Time Limit Investigator” returns for the first time in twelve years!

“You are the one who’s done that, aren’t you? The statute of limitations on ...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Medical/Health
  • Science

SIGN

SIGN: A remake of a Korean blockbuster! A startling forensic suspense drama.

A genius but uncouth forensic doctor teams up with a rookie female forensic doctor to challenge the authorities that try to conceal the truth.

Despite betrayals and conspiracies that they must face, the forensics and ...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Drama (Series)
  • Mystery
  • Suspense

MIRROR TWINS

They have the same gene information, but one is a criminal and the other is a detective.
The twins used to have a strong bond with each other, but reunite as a criminal and a detective…

Keigo and Yugo play together in a park near their home. Their face exactly look same but they are called “Mirr...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Mystery

Detective Zero

Tokiya used to be a competent veteran detective with 20 years of experience. But he lost all of his memories related to his career when he was following a case. He has memories of his everyday life but all memories related to his job, his experiences as a detective and the cases that he has worked o...

  • Comedy
  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Mystery

Maison de Police

Hiyori Makino is a rookie detective whose dream comes true when she is assigned to the Criminal Investigation Division. One day, the precinct police see an anonymously-posted clip on the Internet that shows a person being burned to death. The police treat it as a possible copycat crime of a burning ...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Drama (Series)
  • Scripted Format

Trap the Con Man

Saki Hoshino, age 25. The daughter of a legendary conman, and hailed as a genius,she was scouted to join the “Conman Hit-back Expert A-Team”, aka CHEAT.
But she has “a little secret” that cannot be revealed.

She is an “IDOL”...

She has to hide her true self not to be found out that she’s the ...

  • Detective
  • Detective

Cops'n Robbers

Cops get schooled by robbers?!


The crime closest to our everyday life might just be theft. In the Metropolitan Police Department, it is handled by the Investigations 3rd Unit.

Creating a brand new concept within detective dramas, "Cops & Robbers" features novice police detective Tsutomu Mada...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Suspense

CSI: Crime Scene Talks

Satoshi Itomura is an assistant police investigator who belongs to the Metropolitan Police Department’s Scientific Investigation Team. Reenact- ments, fingerprint and voice data collections, profiling... His team collects scientific evidence and pieces together fragments of information to help build...

  • Detective
  • Detective

Seven Detectives

One of the seven detectives dispatched to MPD Div-12 is the infamous Yu Amagi. He is very frank to the point of possible rudeness, has little teamwork spirit but means well, seems very quiet but can be extremely talkative, and is in all a mysterious figure. No one can tell what is in his mind, but h...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Mystery

Women Document Detectives

A mystery drama featuring two female detectives tagged together to solve a cold case.

Tomo Yashiro, a Judo expert is a young macho female detective who tackles cold cases with her abundant righteousness, passion, and strong instincts. She is ready to go anywhere any time without much forethought ...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Drama (Series)
  • Human
  • Mystery
  • Suspense

Crime Syndrome

In the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, there is a secret team that takes care of certain crimes that could not be handled by police official. Their duty is to investigate the tricky cases and seek the truths that cannot be dealt openly.
This is a suspenseful socially aware drama that depicts ...

  • Action
  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Scripted Format
  • Suspense

CRISIS

Based on award-winning writer Kazuki Kaneshiro's story,"Crisis" focuses on Inami and Tamaru, two members of a secret team of specialists working directly under the jurisdiction of the Security Bureau of the National Police Agency.

In an age when the nation is under the threat of unimaginable crim...

  • Detective
  • Detective

Hello, Detective Hedgehog

The “Akatsuka Detective Agency” sits nestled in a quiet residential district of Tokyo, Shimo-Akatsuka in Itabashi Ward. Goro and Gure are laid-back employees who are more often found kicking back in a snack bar downstairs called “Kirara”, fraternizing with its part-time barmaid, Moemi. One day, they...

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  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Drama (Series)
  • Entertainment
  • Food/Cooking
  • For Women
  • Martial arts
  • Mystery
  • Romance
  • Suspense
  • Thriller
  • Travel
  • Travelogue

Love and Hong Kong

Director Kenta Yamada (Ryo Yoshizawa) and his assistant director Aya Hirakawa (Fumika Baba) are in Hong Kong filming a documentary featuring the Japanese celebrity Elly (Moga Mogami) and her jaunts in the city. However, during filming, Elly is kidnapped by Daniel (Kaoru Nagata), a man who lives in H...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Mystery
  • Suspense

CRYSTAL'S BEATING (tentative)

From a gruesome murder to a series of bomb blasts, it's explosive storytelling from beginning to end!
This “Crystal's Beating” (Suishō no Kodō) is the sequel to the immensely popular crime suspense drama series “Cocoon of Stone” (Ishi no Mayu), and the long-awaited second instalment in the “Murder ...

  • Comedy
  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Entertainment
  • Mystery

The Last Cop

This is the ultimate topsy-turvy out-of-control buddy cop duo that breaks all rules and conventions! After 30 years in a coma, a hot-blooded rough-around-the-edges predatory cop suddenly awakens and begins to run the life of his digital native “herbivore” buddy. Together they shatter the lethargy th...

  • Comedy
  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Mystery
  • Romance

The Detective Couple

A police lady who is called the Iron Lady has a secret.

Keiko Kyodo” is a super detective woman with intelligence and a great figure.
Not only suspects but also the other detectives shrived up at the touch of her hear icy eyes and her razor tongue. She has excellent intuition. Because of her hi...

  • Detective
  • Detective
  • Mystery
  • Scripted Format

VISION -the Girl Who Sees Murders-

In this drama, an unpopular fashion model suddenly develops a supernatural ability to see murder scenes before the murders occur. While fearing her new ability, she meets a detective under suspension, after being involved in a certain murder case...
Together, the two of them begin to use her unique...