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Movies Like Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 3

If you liked Akio Jissoji's Mystery File 3 (1997), a horror and mystery movie directed by Kyôta Kawasaki and Atsushi Shimizu, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Books of Blood

    Books of Blood (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction

    A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.

  2. 2Containment

    Containment (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction

    Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?

  3. 3Abduction

    Abduction (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and science fiction

    A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by…

  4. 4Dark Light

    Dark Light (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction

    A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.

  5. 5The Return

    The Return (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror and science fiction

    After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.

  6. 6Blood and Snow

    Blood and Snow (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and horror

    When researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?

  7. 7Southbound

    Southbound (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and horror

    On a desolate stretch of desert highway, weary travelers — two men on the run from their past, a band on their way to the next gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family…

  8. 8Slash/Back

    Slash/Back (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and horror

    In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.

  9. 9The Signal

    The Signal (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction

    A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.

  10. 10Baoh: The Visitor

    Baoh: The Visitor (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction

    Doress, a Japanese "black projects" organization, has been gathering psionics and creating biological weapons to "make Japan superior". When one of the biological experiments, BAOH, a parasite living inside 17-year-old…

  11. 11Cranston Academy: Monster Zone

    Cranston Academy: Monster Zone (2020)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and fantasy

    An intelligent 15-year-old high school student is unexpectedly transferred to a boarding school where he opens a portal of monsters from another dimension.

  12. 12Nocebo

    Nocebo (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also mystery and horror

    A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…

  13. 13Margaux

    Margaux (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction

    As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a…

  14. 14The Unhealer

    The Unhealer (2021)

    ★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and horror

    A botched faith healing bestows supernatural Shaman powers on a bullied teenager. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that kills someone he loves, he uses his powers for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to…

  15. 15Year 10

    Year 10 (2024)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction

    After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.

  16. 16Tokyo Ghoul 'S'

    Tokyo Ghoul 'S' (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror and science fiction

    Now a member of Anteiku, Ken Kaneki grows closer to the ghouls around him. Determined to protect his new home against anti-ghoul forces, he trains his powers in secret. But when the infamous gourmet, Shū Tsukiyama…

  17. 17The Asphyx

    The Asphyx (1972)

    ★ 6/10Also fantasy and horror

    Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is…

  18. 18God Told Me To

    God Told Me To (1976)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and horror

    A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random citizens who claim that 'God told them to'.

  19. 19The Devil Conspiracy

    The Devil Conspiracy (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror and fantasy

    A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of…

  20. 20Jekyll & Hyde

    Jekyll & Hyde (1990)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction

    Henry Jekyll is a troubled man. His wife died of pneumonia. He wants his sister-in-law, but her father forbids any contact. And his experiments into the dual nature of man have yielded a personality-splitting drug that…

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