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The Criminal

2026 · 1 season

A slow-burning, uneasy mystery that keeps you leaning in, piecing together grim connections while a quiet dread builds.

Genres
Mystery, Drama
Overview
A random mass stabbing, major food company Titus Foods, and a mysterious infant disease. These three things have as much in common as Detective Soma, hack writer Yarimizu, and the stabbing's lone survivor, Shuji. Yet, these men are now embroiled in a risky quest for the truth. What they find, though, is more heinous than they imagined, making them question just who is the real criminal?

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Genres
Mystery, Drama
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • mystery
  • corruption
  • guilt
  • morality
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror3
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension7
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
mystery, drama
Created by
Motohiro Matsumoto
Written by
Takeharu Sakurai
Starring
Koshi Mizukami, Issey Takahashi, Takumi Saitoh, Yusuke Santamaria, Jung Il-woo, Magi, Sena Iwaki, Nozomi Bando
Music
Kenji Kawai
Length
1 seasons, 7 episodes
Network
Prime Video
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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