Japanese TV Thrillers on Netflix

Satoru Fujinuma can travel back in time to save others' lives. When he wakes up 18 years in the past, he has a chance to save his murdered classmates.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.5
Netflix rating: 3.8/5
Netflix ID: 80114225 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young man looking for excitement moves to Ikebukuro, a district in Tokyo, where he finds a world of mystery in which the past and present mesh.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Netflix ID: 80040119 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A no-nonsense detective with a reputation for pushing limits investigates a rash of brutal murders connected by a series of cryptic short stories.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80063391 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Waking naked outside the White House, Akira Takizawa has no memory -- and his only clues are the gun and cell phone he holds in his hands.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Netflix ID: 70202750 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Unconfident loner Atsushi Nakajima joins the Armed Detective Agency, a group of operatives who fight Port Mafia with their supernatural abilities.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Netflix ID: 80132126 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Fifteen years apart, two driven detectives work together to crack an unsolved kidnapping case and rewrite history.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix ID: 81004042 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tasked with investigating special threats to the country, agents Akira Inami and Saburo Tamaru race against time to uphold order and find justice.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix ID: 80195465 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a near-death experience, a stoic cop is suddenly able to see the dead, adding a new dimension to his investigations.

Year: 2014
Netflix ID: 80200155 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A dissatisfied husband decides to kill his wife but returns home to find she's been kidnapped ... and that there's more to her than he realized.

Year: 2016
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80118114 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Akira Mochizuki survived a kidnapping as a child. Now, she's a detective, and there are signs that the kidnapper may be back again after 20 years.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:49:19
Netflix ID: 80118019 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A construction consultant who uses yakuza to fend off yakuza reluctantly teams with a mob enforcer when they're dragged into a dangerous predicament.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3/5
Netflix ID: 80142226 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Five beautiful but mysterious women move in with unsuccessful novelist Shin, who manages their odd household in exchange for a tidy monthly sum.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 80170687 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A jaded rom-com screenwriter in her 30s mines four love-sick women for their stories under the guise of providing them with romantic advice.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 80199051 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Eleven high school classmates awaken, restrained to a large dining room. While fearing for their lives, they question a motive to this bizarre act.

Year: 2017
Netflix ID: 80198794 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Tough guy Kuwahara is back with his old partner Ninomiya, and this time they're working a swindle involving a priceless Buddhist scroll.

Year: 2016
Netflix ID: 80233961 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Yumeko Jabami enrolls at Hyakkaou Private Academy, where students are ranked by their gambling winnings and fame and fortune awaits those on top.

Year: 2018
Netflix ID: 80233218 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A journalist researching a wrongly convicted murderer finds himself in the crosshairs of the true killer -- the sadistic 'artist' known as Frog Man.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 00:55:30
Netflix ID: 80196840 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb