Japanese Thrillers on Netflix

Aspiring manga artist Satoru inadvertently travels back through time, enabling him to prevent fatalities from occurring to people near him.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.5
Runtime: 02:00:25
Netflix ID: 70253593 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Det. Kosuke Kimdaichi tries to solve the eerie and bizarre murders of the members of a wealthy, prominent family with a closet full of skeletons.

Year: 1976
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:25:10
Netflix ID: 80081320 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young schoolteacher seeks revenge against the adolescent students she believes to be responsible for her daughter's death.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 4.1/5
Runtime: 01:46:35
Netflix ID: 70153638 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A teenager encounters a mysterious girl while he is hospitalized. When he later sees her at school, he doesn't understand why no one else notices her.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 7.6
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:49:14
Netflix ID: 80081091 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a man is found strangled and mutilated, two detectives and a brilliant physicist work together to decipher clues that lead to the killer.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:08:18
Netflix ID: 70119194 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young woman who was abducted as a baby, then raised for years by her kidnapper, is determined to find out what really happened all those years ago.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:28:05
Netflix ID: 80073172 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Detective Takabe struggles to solve a group of unexplained murders, and so far, the only link that seems to exist among the crimes involves a wound in the shape of an X on the throats of all victims.

Year: 1997
IMDb: 7.4
Netflix rating: 3.2/5
Runtime: 01:51:19
Netflix ID: 60033773 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A nameless man is found murdered in a rail yard, stumping a pair of detectives as they try to unravel the identity of both the killer and the victim.

Year: 1974
IMDb: 7.4
Runtime: 02:22:54
Netflix ID: 70049044 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Nao Kanzaki and Shinichi Akiyama return to the Liar Game's final round, which everyone can win if they trust each other. But 'Player X' may doom them.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.3
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 02:13:36
Netflix ID: 80108339 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Five-year-old Masako falls mysteriously ill after scratching her finger in a muddy swamp, and her ailment causes heartache for her devoted parents.

Year: 1980
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:53:46
Netflix ID: 80076989 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The accuser becomes the accused when a top-notch prosecutor is framed as a thief and rapist and becomes a fugitive in search of justice and truth.

Year: 1976
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:31:07
Netflix ID: 80081321 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A cunning psychopath befriends the downtrodden owner of a rival tropical fish store and lures him into a twisted world of depravity and murder.

Year: 2010
IMDb: 7.1
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 02:26:00
Netflix ID: 70151002 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a beautiful office worker is stabbed and set on fire, her murder casts suspicion on a colleague who is tried on television and in the rumor mill.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 02:06:17
Netflix ID: 80071140 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A suicidal teen is forced to watch her parents' lovemaking from a peephole, then is sexually abused by her father after her mother's suspicious death.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 7
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Runtime: 01:48:19
Netflix ID: 70062527 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The cruel games that besieged Yuichi and his friends comes down to the final act in an ultimate hide-and-seek showdown where everything’s on the line.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 01:39:25
Netflix ID: 81013281 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Right after the burst of Japan's economic bubble, a lonely banker finds her embezzlement leading her to sexual awakening and financial peril.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.9
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:06:37
Netflix ID: 80107356 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A detective's investigation of a grisly murder leads her to a sexually frustrated housewife and a professor who moonlights as a prostitute.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3.6/5
Runtime: 02:24:55
Netflix ID: 70273699 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When the body of an ex-cop turns up in small seaside town, Dr. Manabu Yukawa sets his meticulously logical mind on finding the killer.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 02:08:32
Netflix ID: 80041091 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Shinichi Akiyama escaped the Liar Game, but its office restarts to get revenge on him by coercing a new group of players, including naive student Yu.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Runtime: 02:10:21
Netflix ID: 80114833 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Seiji Hasumi is a popular teacher who has a gift for dealing with students' problems, but beneath that facade lies a sociopathic killer.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.6
Netflix rating: 3.3/5
Runtime: 02:09:02
Netflix ID: 70285592 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A bizarre love triangle forms when an unfulfilled woman meets two male friends who bring out her unexpected sexual attraction to pain.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 02:05:15
Netflix ID: 70122626 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After finding his wife's body and dodging a kidnap attempt, a Japanese man begins to have memories of a separate life he's lived as a Korean.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.5
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Runtime: 01:59:47
Netflix ID: 80039912 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A beautiful young starlet looks perfect in front of the camera, but she hides a dangerous secret and will do anything to maintain her image.

Year: 2012
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:06:52
Netflix ID: 80072441 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A yakuza member on death row promises to reveal the details of three unsolved murders if a journalist will help him put his former boss behind bars.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.4
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:08:39
Netflix ID: 80082000 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After popular girl Itsumi mysteriously dies, rumors spread. Her distraught friends each tell their side of the story, but they can’t all be innocent.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:44:57
Netflix ID: 81019408 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Physicist Ueda and magician Naoko journey to a tropical island at the request of a corporation that wants to evict the residents.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 01:52:05
Netflix ID: 80201510 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Profiler turned lecturer Koichi is drawn back into his old job when his colleagues ask for his help on an unsolved case. Then things get weird.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.3
Runtime: 02:10:15
Netflix ID: 80097242 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a series of macabre murders rocks Tokyo, a group of writers and a cop who can see people's memories both try to unravel the mystery.

Year: 2007
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:11:49
Netflix ID: 80072785 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young woman who was abducted and tortured as a teen becomes a respected doctor, but feeds a dark obsession as an S&M master after hours.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 6.1
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:58:08
Netflix ID: 80080059 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An injured office worker is befriended by a kind nurse who becomes her roommate, but the nurse's behavior quickly becomes strange, then deadly.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 5.9
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:50:12
Netflix ID: 80065330 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High schooler Yuka Kabayama is one of 10 students forced into the 'werewolf game.' She has the werewolf card, requiring her to kill the other players.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 5.8
Netflix rating: 2.7/5
Runtime: 01:52:19
Netflix ID: 80114362 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this spinoff from the Gachi-ban series of hoodlum flicks, a young yakuza boss quits his gang to become a good-hearted loan shark.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 5.7
Netflix rating: 2.7/5
Runtime: 01:28:15
Netflix ID: 80114358 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a girl who communicates with the dead passes away, her mother tries to bring her back, while her friends investigate a link to a strange island.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 5.6
Netflix rating: 2.7/5
Runtime: 01:40:23
Netflix ID: 70012000 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The prime suspect in a rash of gruesome murders claims to speak with the dead and leads detectives to uncover a growing army of doppelgängers.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 5.4
Netflix rating: 2.8/5
Runtime: 01:29:01
Netflix ID: 80059259 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A brilliant neurologist investigates a case surrounding six bodies that have washed up on an island known for its proximity to distinct sea currents.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.2
Runtime: 01:47:24
Netflix ID: 80196900 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Detective Misaki Amemiya's investigation into a streaming video website called Babylon lands her in captivity along with housewives Ruri and Shizuko.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 4.8
Netflix rating: 2.7/5
Runtime: 01:51:12
Netflix ID: 80117133 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young, adulterous doctor is found dead in the boarding house he shares with a voyeur, who may have witnessed his suicide -- or was it murder?

Year: 2016
IMDb: 4.4
Runtime: 01:52:30
Netflix ID: 80191941 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The test of true friendship continues as five classmates awake to the next round of the sadistic game to help repay a debt incurred by one of them.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:38:14
Netflix ID: 81013280 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A terrible crime leaves three young people forever marked. When they reunite twenty-five years later, the violence between them can't be repressed.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 02:17:55
Netflix ID: 80207843 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An ex-boxer and the punk who stole his cat end up in way over their heads when they head to Tokyo to protect a single mom with a dangerous past.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 02:09:26
Netflix ID: 81011202 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The twisted relationship between an acting student and her aspiring writer boyfriend leads to a vengeful act that everyone involved may regret.

Year: 2014
Netflix rating: 2.6/5
Runtime: 01:20:18
Netflix ID: 80092873 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A 14-year-old successfully organizes a mock trial for the murder of her classmate and, as the prosecutor, urgently seeks the truth behind the mystery.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:26:39
Netflix ID: 80103371 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a fellow student supposedly commits suicide, the class officer believes he was murdered by bullies and pushes to have them tried by their peers.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:01:31
Netflix ID: 80103663 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A female office worker grows tired of her popular and attractive colleague's office affairs, and releases explicit footage of her as revenge.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:13:31
Netflix ID: 80154175 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A group of high school students must play the 'werewolf game,' with their lives at stake. Ayaka holds the fox card, and she can't trust anyone.

Year: 2015
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:37:34
Netflix ID: 80114356 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A college student must endure the fallout of revenge porn after sexually explicit images of her are uploaded onto the internet by her boyfriend.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 01:13:29
Netflix ID: 80153893 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When a reliable client disappears with their money, two loan sharks follow a lead and find Azami, a mama-san with an evil streak.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 01:21:25
Netflix ID: 80191958 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Once again, high school students are abducted and forced into a brutal game of murder. But this time, two of the players aren't strangers.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 01:39:42
Netflix ID: 80152608 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Bullied high schooler Danda starts wearing a porcelain mask, sparking a fad. But a girl named Yuki soon discovers the masks are linked to murders.

Year: 2000
Runtime: 01:29:41
Netflix ID: 80201851 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Kind caregiver Eri falls for a hardworking young businessman, but their blossoming romance descends into an increasingly volatile cycle of abuse.

Year: 2017
Runtime: 01:11:42
Netflix ID: 80235758 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A detective thinks he knows what motivates the serial killer who wears the frog mask. With two already dead, hopefully his hunch is right.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 02:11:58
Netflix ID: 81015521 · Watch on Netflix