Japanese Crime Thriller

In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions about the Ichiyanagis around the village. Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi family are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music - death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house.

Nanao, nicknamed Ladybug - the self-proclaimed “unluckiest assassin in the world” - boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: Grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase - and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, “the Prince”, with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others.

In Bullet Train, underworld operative Ladybug was tasked by his handler Maria Beetle with retrieving a suitcase from a high-speed train in Japan. The job did not go according to plan. Will the unluckiest assassin in the world will find things easier this time around? All he has to do is deliver a painting to a hotel guest, a portrait made by his daughter. Easy enough, except when Ladybug makes the delivery, he realizes that the guest is clearly not the guy in the painting. Then he attacks Ladybug, they fight, and the guest ends up dead. How can such simple jobs always go wrong?

As they do every year, a small group of acquaintances pay a visit to the remote castle-like Water Mill House, home to the reclusive Fujinuma Kiichi, son of a famous artist, who has lived his life behind a rubber mask ever since a disfiguring car accident. This year, however, the visit is disrupted by an impossible disappearance, the theft of a painting, and a series of baffling murders. The brilliant Kiyoshi Shimada arrives to investigate.

Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga kidnapping, an unsolved case which terrorized Japan for two years, Lady Joker reimagines the circumstances of this watershed episode in modern Japanese history and brings into riveting focus the lives and motivations of the victims, the perpetrators, the heroes and the villains. As the shady networks linking corporations to syndicates are brought to light, the stakes rise, and some of the professionals we have watched try to fight their way through this crisis will lose everything—some even their lives.

Danger awaits best friends on the island of Malta, where one will be accused of murder and the other of being a spy on the run. A missing journalist cannot tell the world he is still alive by becoming a mystery writer's alibi. When Hiromi came back to Paris to settle an old score, she had no idea her target might be hiding on the island of Malta. But, now, she has a chance to redeem her reputation by neutralizing a rogue agent and capturing the mystery writer who hides agency secrets in his novels.

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バートラムと友人三人は「ホーク団」という小さな窃盗団を組んでいた。

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アン・ラーセンは、死亡した被告側弁護士が裁判で負けたすぐあと退職していたことを知る。

新たな情報を得たローランド・ベニートは、刑務官の自殺について改めて検討し直す。

バートラムは、盗んだジャケットに入っていたものについて、警察に行って話をする気にはなれなかった。

ローランドは、アン・ラーセンからウーヴェ・フィンチの写真を見せられる。

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バートラムと３人の仲間（ジャック、カスパー、フェリックス）は中学を卒業したあと、ホークスという安っぽいギャング団を結成している。

警察苦情処理独立団体のローランド・ベニートは、同僚と共に、緊急事態に対応した２人の警察官を取り調べることになる。

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リヴ・ルケはパードラのスーパー「ネットー」で店員として働いていた。 彼女は、この街にも、自分自身にも、仕事にも、人生にもうんざりしていた。客が誰であるか見なくてもわかるようになっていた。 近所に住む客の殆どや彼らの買い物の習慣を把握していた。 しかしある日、客の一人が彼女の過去、そしてあの運命の日を思い出させるような品物を購入した。それは母親を殺したガス爆発から兄を救った日のことだ。 その客は、あの人......