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Signal: Long-Term Unsolved Case Investigation – The Movie

Story continues from the Japanese Signal drama series. In 2021, a limousine taxi driver causes an accident on a highway and a high-level government official dies in the accident. Cold case investigation team, including Kento Saegusa and team leader Misaki Sakurai, have doubts about the case. Meanwhile, in 2009, administrative officers die consecutively in car accidents. The police announce these deaths as accidents. Takeshi Ōyama believes that these deaths were not the product of simple ...

Signal ~ Chouki Mikaiketsu Jiken Sousahan Special

The story begins shortly after the finale episode of the 2018 drama, and then moves to 2020, two years later.

Man from Reno

A stranger in the increasingly strange city of San Francisco, Japanese crime novelist Aki is unsure of precisely what role she has to play in a real-life murder mystery involving ambiguous MacGuffins and amorphous identities. Unfolding in lonely places such as bookshops and hotel bars, Dave Boyle's moody thriller uncovers exhilarating new takes on genre conventions. Consequently, it's an alluring l'homme fatal who supplies Aki with the breadcrumb trail of clues that entices her into a ...

Killers – In jedem von uns steckt ein Killer

Auf den ersten Blick wirkt Shuhei Nomura wie ein reicher, intelligenter Geschäftsmann, doch in Wahrheit handelt es sich bei ihm um einen grausamen Serienmörder, der es vor allem auf Frauen in Tokio abgesehen hat, welche er auf bestialische Weise und vor laufender Kamera ermordet. In der indonesischen Stadt Jakarta tötet unterdessen der Journalist Bayu zwei sadistische Diebe, die ihn eigentlich ausrauben wollten und filmt ihre letzten Momente. Eigentlich will Bayu danach sein normales Leben ...

Midsummer’s Equation

Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an oceanside town to speak on a panel. But when a man turns up dead outside the inn where he's staying, Yukawa begins to unravel the connections that tie the victim to the activist daughter of the innkeepers, and a precocious boy who first appears on a train—and keeps popping up. It's a Sherlock Holmes mystery with an environmental twist, and one ...

Like a Dragon

Former Yakuza underling Kiryu Kazuma, who has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration, and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his Yakuza past. Unfortunately Kiryu's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball bat-wielding psycho Majima Goro who has a grudge to settle with Kiryu.

The Perfect Education

Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in search of a perfect marriage and intends to lock her in the room and 'educate' her to perform perfect sex where body and soul are united.

Ley Lines

Da das Leben auf dem Lande nicht viel zu bieten hat, schlagen sich Ryuichi und sein jüngerer Bruder Shunrei , sowie ihr gemeinsamer Freund Chang bis nach Tokio durch, um dort ihr Glück zu finden. Im dem Rotlichtviertel von Shinjuku treffen sie die Hure Anita, welche den jungen Männern ihr gesamtes Bargeld entwendet. Um wieder an etwas Geld zu kommen, sind sie gezwungen mit Drogen auf den Straßen zu handeln. Aber Ryuichi plant etwas Größeres für ihre Zukunft, die Ausreise nach Brasilien. Um ...