The Best Mystery Asian Films

A college boy Su-min is looking around paintings in a gallery when he hears someone screaming for help. That’s where he first meets a high school girl, Hyun-jin. They soon meet again in a park, and she realizes he is gifted; he can read people’s mind.

The ESP Couple (2008)

Young insurance broker Yip Wing Shun received a strange phone inquiry about compensation for suicide cases from a creepy client named Chu Chung Tak who discovered his stepson, a teenager, dead in his room. Broker Yip suffered from the trauma and guilt of the death of his own brother when he was younger and is determined to investigate the case when it was confirmed as a suicide case and when Chu Chung Tak started harassing Yip for the insurance payout. Yip is convinced that Chu is a psychopathic murderer and his next victim could be his visually impaired wife Shum Tze Ling. Yip races against the clock to find the truth.

Legally Declared Dead (2019)

A popular rap singer was stabbed to death during a rowdy concert. The singer's fan club president was deemed the most possible suspect and was placed under arrest. But prosecutor Jo believes that someone powerful is behind the deceptively simple case. His investigation of the murder soon leads him into a seedy world of fan club eccentricities, excessive sex parties, and secretive dealings.

Truth Game (2000)

Two cops with different methods forming a team to investigate a case that turns the police force upside down.

The Policeman's Lineage (2022)

A man loses his memory and wakes up in a new body every 12 hours, each time forced to discover who he is anew. This condition begins when he wakes up in the middle of a car crash, in the body of someone he doesn't recognize, without any knowledge of who he is. He begins to realize that his spirit is stuck to a different body and moves every 12 hours. In his desperate search to find himself, he comes across a woman who claims to recognize him. As he bores deeper into the mystery, he comes across a secretive organization that appears to be chasing him. Before it’s too late, he must find a way back into his own body.

Spiritwalker (2021)

Based on a true story that depicts the pressures placed on students to achieve and gain admission to prestigious colleges and universities.

Jungle Fish (2008)

Ji-won, a news anchor woman, witnesses Jung Yong-wook, an emerging leader of the ruling party, being terrorized. She sees the incident from car parked on a deserted road as she was enjoying a secret redez-vous with Park In-gyu, the presidential candidate of the opposition party. She barely escapes being killed herself. The country is thrown in turmoil with the news of Jung Yong-wook's alleged suicide, and Park In-gyu urges Ji-won to keep quiet.

Who Saw The Dragon's Claws? (1991)

The movie begins in the year 1995 where there were 5 peculiar murder cases. The murderer would always get someone close to the victim to witness how he would strangle the victim from behind with a rope but he would let the witnesses go and speak to the media on how the murders happened. Ito plays the role of Makimura, the police detective who was in charge of investigating the serial murders but failed to catch the cunning murderer and his respected superior ended up being killed as well. 22 years later in 2017 when the case is nearing its statute of limitations, a man named Sonezaki claims to be the culprit for the 1995 murders and even publishes a book titled "Watashi ga satsujinhan desu" to talk about the cases. Despite the disgust towards Sonezaki's actions, the intensive attention showered on him via the media and SNS makes him become the talk of town.

Memoirs of a Murderer (2017)

A body is found inside a water tank a top of an apartment building. It's not a hard case to solve for Danny Lee and company.

Water Tank Murder Mystery (1994)

An author, her reputation threatened by public humiliation, finds herself a prisoner, struggling to escape from a futuristic cult. Meanwhile, representatives of mankind debate with a time traveller to save the future of humanity.

Fallen (2020)

A story that follows a family of four leading harmonious and contented lives. When a mysterious visitor starts residing in their basement, their lives are turned upside down as strange events begin to occur.

Home Sweet Home (2021)

The sequel to 2018s movie "The Witch".

The Witch: Part 2. The Other One (2022)