For fans of Norifumi Suzuki: what to watch, read & play next

A quiet domestic life fractures when a secret affair surfaces, exposing the fragile loyalties between two women.

Two loyal foot soldiers face betrayal and ruin when their yakuza family's bond is tested by a violent clan conflict.

A yakuza wife steps into her jailed husband's role, asserting authority and expanding power in a criminal hierarchy.

A low-ranking samurai and his comrades defy a corrupt superior in an all-star period action romp.

A blind wandering swordsman honours a dying stranger's last wish, protecting a boy from gangster-controlled townspeople.

A woman fights free of a brutal drug-smuggling cartel, battling both male yakuza and a rival gang of female thieves.

Rival monk factions clash in a 1920s monastery, where faith and fist are inseparable in a brotherhood split by power.

A female warrior disguised as a man navigates loyalty and love in the collapsing Tokugawa shogunate.

A school art teacher anchors a sprawling, unconventional family of half-siblings in a drama about unexpected duty.

A Japanese journalist uncovers a dangerous legend amid Brazil's gold rush, where violence hides behind rumour.

Unexpressed love between two high-school girls creates a tense, tender drama of invisible feelings and close proximity.

Young men in modern Japan channel ancestral warrior energy into motorcycle gang rivalries, caught between school and the street.

A woman's New York ambitions are derailed by a persistent monk, in a romantic comedy of clashing wills and social pressures.

A lethal sword tournament at the dawn of the Edo era pits two crippled warriors in a meditation on violence and fate.

A child born between rival worlds in early Showa Japan grows up navigating the deep conflict between land and sea.

A feared high-school delinquent wakes to find a girl has literally become his right hand, in a strange, tender comedy.

A postwar Tokyo private eye investigates gruesome murders while carrying a broken past, in a dark mystery visual novel.

In a cursed village where the same summer repeats, paranoia and betrayal build beneath a deceptively peaceful surface.

The same doomed summer returns again, this time exploring guilt and atonement from the perspective of a key suspect.

A rural village summer hides ritual violence and paranoia; every relationship conceals a potential for deadly betrayal.

A young outsider arrives at a village festival and slowly finds the cheerful surface concealing something deeply wrong.

Two wrongly imprisoned delinquents must fight their way through a corrupt juvenile facility to clear their names.

In Hinamizawa's endlessly repeating tragedy, a single chapter finally offers a path toward understanding and redemption.

A detective visual novel where your own choices determine who survives a string of bizarre murders in 1950s Tokyo.

A young Chinese man convalescing in prewar Japan finds quiet intimacy and creeping dread in a borrowed summer house.

A boy confronts his estranged yakuza father, wrestling with betrayal and the pull of a criminal world he never chose.

Three men driven by revenge, ambition and old debts converge in a lyrical, hard-edged crime thriller.

Years after a cruel act of bullying, a deaf girl and her tormentor face each other again in a story about redemption.

A sixteenth-century swordsman's strategic philosophy bridges martial discipline and modern thinking about conflict.

A Kyoto kimono-maker's adopted daughter searches for identity and a secret twin in this quiet, luminous literary novel.

A poor girl indebted to a rich school's all-male host club disguises herself as a boy in a screwball gender-swap comedy.

A young man searching for his unknown father stumbles into the Tokyo underworld, finding himself instead.