Asian Drama

The 'Universe League', which will create a boy group, will be held in a completely different format from Season 1. It is a league-style audition where the final winning team that wins the Prism Cup debuts. Three representative K-pop artists will become the managers of each club. They select team members through a trainee draft and compete against each other. This was combined with the sports element of combining the best members of each club through a trade of exchanging trainees. Through this, 'Universe League' is expected to be a differentiated audition that shows more dynamic competition.

(Source: Korean = sports.khan.co.kr)

Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Airs On: Friday

During the summer in the present day, Jeon Youn Ha runs a vacation cottage located deep in the woods. His peaceful life is shaken by the sudden appearance of a mysterious woman named Yoo Sung A.

In the early 2000's, Koo Sang Joon ran the same vocation cottage as Jeon Young Ha did years later. Koo Sang Joon and his family also lived there, but, during the summer, something happened at his vacation cottage and Koo Sang Joon lost everything because of that. At that time, Yoon Bo Min worked as a police officer at the nearest police substation from the vacation cottage. 20 years later, Yoon Bo Min is transferred to the same police substation where she worked before and she begins to work there as the chief. She enjoys solving things and begins to observe Jeon Young Ha closely.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 8

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Airs On: Thursday

In her final year of high school, Lee Hong Ju fell head over heels in love. But this first brush with love ended in heartbreak. Ever since, she has been deeply skeptical when it comes to everything love-related. A decade later, she has become an animation producer when fate reunites her with her former crush, Hu Yeong, in a cafe.

He has returned to South Korea from the United States and is now a 29-year-old financial planner. They are both hit by a wave of emotions. Could a fresh chance at romance be in the cards? Or has too much water passed under the bridge?

(Source: Viki)

Adapted from the webtoon "Uyeonilkka?" (우연일까?) written by Nam Ji Eun (남지은) and illustrated by Kim In Ho (김인호).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

Set in 1960s South Korea. The series follows two men through their bromance and the obstacles they face during a turbulent time in the country’s history.

It depicts the story of Park Doo Chil, who is known as Uncle Samsik, who always has three meals a day, even during the war, and Kim San, an elite man from the Korean Military Academy, who wants to create a country where everyone lives well.

(Source: Korean = Naver || Translation = Deadline.com)

Episodes: 16

Airs On: Wednesday

A rigged professional fist-fighting tournament 20 years ago led to the downfall of one family and changed the course of both families forever. The patriarchs of the Duan and Ye families faced each other in an epic professional fist-fighting tournament that went horribly wrong, and the two families have been sworn enemies ever since. Duan Yi Qiao (Tony Sun) is the son of one of the feuding families who also is an expert fist fighter as well as heir to the family’s successful entertainment company. When his family targets the last standing building of the Ye family for redevelopment, the feisty Ye You Li (Esther Liu) is determined to put up a fight to keep her family’s Fist-Fighting Hall from being taken over. When Yi Qiao then finds out something about his past that makes him question his own identity, can he and You Li fight for what is rightfully theirs? “Mr. Fighting” is a 2005 Taiwanese drama series.

The national university entrance examination is coming up and the students of Class ¾, which Onizuka Eikichi (AKIRA) is in charge of, enter exam mode. Onizuka who conducts career counselling for the students with assistant form teacher Fuyutsuki Azusa (Takimoto Miori), questions their mentality of aiming for a good university in order to get into a good company. One day, a heated exchange breaks out between the students who have divided into the job-hunters and the exam takers. Azusa breaks it up but gets told by the students, “After all a teacher goes to a suitable university and ends up in the secure teaching profession.” This hits the mark and there is nothing that she can say in return. Two days before the national university entrance examination, a workshop with alumni who were accepted into elite universities is held at Meishu Academy. While watching over the students, Onizuka gets up on the stage and exhorts them that their own worth will not be determined by the name of the university, but by a life lived without regrets. However, he gets criticised by them. On the other hand, several of the students’ parents are gathered at Kuse Toshiaki’s (Hasegawa Tomoharu) place. Kuse proclaims himself an “enrolment consultant” who gets students in through the back door in what is described as “special priority admission”. The parents are worried about the future of their children. On the day before the exam, Onizuka asks the academy’s principal Sakurai Ryoko (Kuroki Hitomi) if it is that important to look at reality. She says it is important but reveals that what is most important is the conviction to pursue it. This is what Onizuka taught her. Hearing this, Onizuka makes some decision...

While enjoying an outdoor party, playboy Zhang Peng finds himself needing a quick escape from an approaching ex-girlfriend. He makes a mad dash for the swimming pool, only to have the lady in question accidentally plunge in herself. While attempting to resurface, Peng suffers one well-placed stiletto-heeled kick to the head. Upon awakening, with memories intact, he finds himself having gone back a thousand years in time. But this is the least of his worries, as he now realizes he has transformed into the current dynasty’s own crown princess, the lovely Zhang Peng Peng. Hilarity ensues as he tries to find a balance between opposing desires: To get back to his own time or to seduce all the women of the palace, now made seemingly achievable with the help of his new female persona.

Based on the manga of the same name by Ima Ichiko, Ritsu is the grandson of Iijima Kagyuu, a novelist who wrote about supernatural phenomena. From his grandfather, Ritsu inherited the ability to see ghosts, demons and spirits. Thirteen years ago, Ritsu's father, Iijima Takahiro passed away and miraculously came back alive. Only Ritsu knows the truth: a demon named Ao-arashi entered his father's body and brought it back to life. Since then the demon has been living as Ritsu's father. It made a promise to Kagyuu that it would protect Ritsu until his eighteenth birthday. After that all bets are off. Ritsu's eighteenth birthday is coming up soon. What will happen then?

During the ten-year civil war, Gong Weiping, an underground member of the CCP’s Beiping, was ordered to develop the party organization in the independent camp of the remnant of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army in Chahar. Due to the betrayal of the traitors, the 25 development targets identified by Gong Weiping were arrested and suspended. Gong Weiping "surrendered" alone tried to save the lives of 25 officers and soldiers, but he missed the Zhongtong trick. Yu Xueyao had a crush on Gong Weiping and pleaded with her brother, Yu Qinzhai, the deputy director of the Central Committee, to release Gong Weiping. Yu Qinzhai agreed to his sister's request to subdue Gong Weiping and designed a series of traps. At this time, Gong Weiping accepted a secret instruction from his superiors code-named Comrade Zhuguang and ordered him to break into the Kuomintang Central Unification spy organization. In order to fulfill this special mission, Gong Weiping had to break up with his beloved girlfriend and married Yu Xueyao. However, Comrade Zhuguang died in an accident soon, Gong Weiping lost contact with the party organization, and the task of being ordered into the Central Unification became a secret no one knew. Facing this reality, Gong Weiping resolutely chose an extremely difficult, tortuous and painful life path, and changed his name to Gong Xiangguang in order to understand his will. He used his wedding night to wittyly eradicate the traitors of the underground party, and he was with Japan.

Bua's life is a wreck: her family was broken, dad went bankrupt, mom went crazy, ex cheated on her, and she became an alcoholic. One day she rans into a lake while her ex was shooting at her, and somehow travels back in time to when the Burmese–Siamese War was happening. She falls in love with Tian, an average soldier, and helps changing history.

Oshii Takashi is a detective with excellent reasoning power. Unfortunately, he usually misses the criminal in front of him and other detectives get recognition for the capture. He is transferred to the Utobashi Police Station.

Oshii Takashi goes to a record company CEO's house. The CEO's third son was burned to death. The police are set to conclude that his death was an accident, but Oshii Takashi thinks otherwise. Oshii Takashi begins to investigate.

Describes Takayuki Yamada's summer as he tries to produce a movie with director Yamashita Nobuhiro in a bid to win an award at the Cannes International Firm Festival.

Produced by documentary director Matsue Tetsuaki.