Asian Drama

It tells the story of Ou Xiao An, an underground member of the Chinese Communist Party, who escaped from the Japanese army's biochemical poison gas research institute and joined forces with Tan Mo Qing to track down and reveal the secrets of the Japanese army's biochemical research and reveal the true face of Japanese spies.

Episodes: 40

Duration: 45 min

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday

Aired: Jun 29, 2024

The story unveils a series of unprecedented crimes committed by a cunning group of land scammers who use real estate sales as bait to steal large sums of money.

(Source: Netflix)

Adapted from the novel "Jimenshitachi" (地面師たち) by Shinjo Ko (新庄耕).

Tags: Advisor Supporting Character, Swindler Supporting Character, Swindler Male Lead, Negotiator Supporting Character, Scheme, Fraud, Adapted From A Novel, Suspense (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 7

Country: Japan

Airs On: Thursday

Aired: Jul 25, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Detectives Jiang Guang Ming and Shi Luo investigate a case, when they discover that the crime scene bears a remarkable resemblance to the crime scene from a novel written by Gu Yu Ming. Fiction and reality get intertwined.

Episodes: 15

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Negotiator expert Cheuk Man Wai (played by Sean Lau) unexpectedly becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. Forced into a corner, he occupies the police station, taking officers hostage, and demands negotiations with the former negotiator Tse Ka Chun (played by Francis NG). With Tse's expertise in psychological manipulation and Check's exceptional skills, they engage in a battle of wits. As the verbal sparring deepens, their positions and mindsets gradually change... This film is adapted from the American movie "The Negotiator".

Aika and Tomoki were members of an acting troupe who pretend to be brutally murdered in order to get revenge. However, a detective who was conducting an investigation into assaults on the homeless rushed to the scene, thinking it was a real murder. While arguing with the detective, another incident occurred where a homeless person was assaulted. Due to their interference with the investigation, the troupe of performers who got involved with the case decide to cooperate. In order to track down the culprit, Tomoki takes on the role of a homeless person, living in the park and initiating a sting operation.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 7

Duration: 30 min.

Airs On: Friday

Depicts activities of the National Police Agency's Scientific Crimes Control Office, which has the special mission of "solving cases involving the latest science," and uses keywords such as "genome editing," "cloning," "science of immortality," and "cryopreservation of the human body." , police bureaucrat Kohiruimaki Yuichi, genius scientist Mogami Yukiko, veteran detective Hasebe Tsutomu. and rookie investigator Okuda Rei who joined as a new team member from Season 2. The story depicts Oto's scientific crime control team tackling various mysterious cases with the cooperation of Saegusa Masuo from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Brave Detective 3 is a true-crime show featuring a dramatic and vivid retelling of unimaginable cases. It features the shocking crimes and the detectives' investigation stories with blood, sweat, and tears.

A money-stealing action drama in which the best players in each field, such as scammers, hackers, fighters, and drivers, band together to find and steal dirty money illegally collected by the rich.

(Source: HanCinema)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

The story begins with the assassin Zhao Xiao Ren accepting the task of assassinating Jun Mo of Jasmine Villa. In order to get closer to the target, Zhao Xiao Ren pretends to be a bride and marries Jun Mo. They both have ulterior motives. They are perfunctory to each other on the surface but gradually develop feelings in their hearts..

(Source: Chinese = Sina || Translation = MyDramaList)

Adapted from the web novel "Mei Hua Ren" (梅花刃) by "Fen Nu De Bao Zi" (愤怒的包子).

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Episodes: 24

Aired: Jun 20, 2024 - Jul 6, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Duration: 15 min.

A crime investigation thriller depicting the distorted friendship of friends who are revealed while tracking the death of a high school friend who died leaving behind 5 billion won in insurance money.

Episodes: 16

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Friday, Saturday

While investigating a drug-trafficking app, “Monster Cop” Ma Seok Do and his team discover a connection between the app’s developer, who was murdered in the Philippines, and an illegal online gambling organization. Meanwhile, in the Philippines, Baek Chang Ki is controlling the Korean online illegal gambling market and spreading terror with kidnap, assault and murder. His partner, the IT genius Jang Dong Cheol, is planning an even larger scheme in Korea itself. To put an end to the escalating threat, Detective Ma expands his operation by proposing an unexpected alliance… The fourth installment in the Roundup series.

(Source: Berlinale.de)

Release dates: Feb 23, 2024 (Festival)

Duration: 1 hr. 49 min.

In the 1980s, troubled youth Chan Lok Kwun accidentally enters the Walled City, discovers the order amidst its chaos, and learns important life lessons along the way. In the Walled City, he becomes close friends with Shin, Twelfth Master and AV. Under the leadership of Tornado, they resist the invasion of the villain, Mr Big, in a series of fierce battles. Together, they vow to protect the safe haven that is Kowloon Walled City.

Yeong Il leads a contract-killing group that includes Jackie, Wol Cheon, and Jeom Man. His job in the group is that of the designer. He designs murders into perfect accidental deaths, but he gets involved in an unexpected incident.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Duration: 1 hr. 39 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Man Jae at his brink of life, even sold his name to survive. In the world of ruthless barge where no one can trust, he held out a threadlike-life with a calculation ability. One day, he decides to retire for his soon to-be-born child and takes on the big final commission. The moment he thought that everything was going smoothly, he was framed for embezzlement of 100 billion won due to his unidentified 'investor' and faced his own obituary. A political consultant, Mrs. Shim, appears to Man Jae when he is trapped in a hellish private prison and lives as a 'dead man', offering a deal with his life as collateral. Man Jae accepts the offer to regain his name, family, and life.

(Source: HanCinema)

Duration: 1 hr. 49 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Takara Keisuke was a detective who chased after a major scammer. Now, he works as a police officer at a police box located along a shopping street. He appears like an ordinary police officer who is friendly with the people in the neighborhood, but Keisuke Takara has a hidden side. He is also Scammer K who targets bad people that are able to avoid the law.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Friday

It tells the story of the battle between Kuomintang and Communist agents for the physicist Tong Jiang Nan in Hong Kong.

In 1948, after the "May Day Slogan" was published, a group of patriotic democrats in Hong Kong, represented by Professor Tong Jiang Nan, actively responded to the call of the Communist Party and prepared to return to the liberated areas. The Kuomintang reactionaries obstructed and sabotaged this and sent Zhang Mu and others with the intention of controlling the professor and others.

Su Xing was once a student of Professor Tong Jiang Nan. He received the task of the organization and went to Hong Kong to escort the democrats back to the liberated areas. He started fighting with the Kuomintang reactionaries in Hong Kong. A life-and-death battle.

(Source: Chinese = Baidu)

Adapted from the novel "The Dark Flower" (暗花) by Zang Xiao Fan (臧小凡).

Episodes: 32

Duration: 45 min.

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

The single father Li Chang Feng resolutely embarked on the road of revenge after his daughter was abused and killed by several minors.

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Adapted from the novel "The Miracles of the Namiya General Store" (ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟) by Keigo Higashino (东野圭吾).

Duration: 1 hr. 47 min.

Ratings: 6.6

Mayo, the Black Angel in this film, has orders from cross-dressing Mama (Shingo Tsurumi from "Freeze Me") to kill a powerful Yakuza syndicate leader, but doesn't get the job done because one of his bodyguards is the same man who saved her from a rape years prior, whom she has feelings for.

The film tells the story of the male protagonist Song En (played by actor Xie Mengwei) who gave up his identity as a police officer in order to destroy the dark forces that were poisoning the local area and the deeper people behind them. At the same time, he was burdened with the revenge of his father's murder and the betrayal of a traitor in the police force. Infamy, he lurked in the dark forces and became a claw of a criminal organization. He embarked on a lonely road of competing with the dark forces alone, surrounded by dangers. In the end, he cooperated with the police inside and outside to break the dark story.

A reporter discovers the existence of a "comment unit" while reporting on online public opinion manipulation and encounters a shocking reality while covering them.

(Source: Daum)

Adapted from the novel "Daetkkeulbudae" (댓글부대) by Jang Kang Myung (장강명).

Zheng Ying, an old police officer who is about to retire, goes undercover as an overseas businessman to trade with Liu Qing's gang. However, he mysteriously disappeared after he successfully caught the gang red handed. Zheng Dong Yu, is Zheng Ying’s daughter. The once arrogant and free spirited girl, grew up over night when her father went missing. In order to find him she became a police woman. Gao Yang, a young police officer that went undercover with Zheng Ying, is also looking for him. He stayed in his undercover role, investigating the disappearance of Zheng Ying. Six years later, Lei Nai Wu, the key figure of Liu Qing's gang and the last person to meet Zheng Ying, was released from prison. At the same time a mysterious killer is on the lose, that is trying to kill Lei Nai Wu. At the time, Gao Yang ventured to save Lei Nai Wu. Lei Nai Wu told him that this killer was the real murderer of Zheng Ying. 
What has truly happened to Zheng Ying?

Kyoji Narita is a high ranking yakuza member. On a rainy day, he wanders on the street. He hears a singing sound and he walks towards the sound. There, he meets junior high school student Satomi Oka and he invites him to go to a karaoke place to teach him to sing. Kyoji Narita badly wants to improve his singing so he won't place last in his gang's karaoke competition. Meanwhile, Satomi Oka is a 3rd grade junior high school students and leads the school choral club. Satomi Oka has a sincere personality, but he often makes biting remarks. He has one problem, which is that he has difficulties with high-pitched notes due to his voice going through puberty. Satomi Oka is embarrassed by the unexpected request from Kyoji Narita.

Based on manga series "Karaoke Iko!" by Yama Wayama (published August 25, 2019 by Kadokawa)

(Source: Asianwiki)

A fractured family of four brothers and one sister confront haunting memories of their mother’s passing fifteen years ago. Fifteen years had passed, as Nicole (Summer Chan) returns home to Hong Kong to be reunited with her three brothers, clinging to the shattered memory from the night of her mother’s passing. Through hypnosis sessions with her big brother Joseph (Simon Yam), the trauma that the family sustained is unexpectedly reawakened when she desires to connect back with the memories. Then, the whole world around this family takes on a dark form and love becomes almost undefinable.

Tells the story of an investigation into a murder case that takes place on a remote seaside road.

Saeba Ryo is a "sweeper" in the city of Tokyo. He works as a trouble shooter, cleaning the streets of vermin, and helping out desperate people. Sometimes he's a bodyguard, sometimes he's an assassin, whatever Ryo does he does it well. In fact, his only flaw is his hormones - he loves the ladies and sometimes turns into an idiot when he's near them. Thankfully he's got people like his partner Kaori Makimura to keep him in check.

(Source: Mangaupdates)

Adapted from the manga series "City Hunter" (シティーハンター) by Hojo Tsukasa (北条司).

Duration: 1 hr. 42 min.

Ratings: 8.1

'Crime Scene' is a mystery game show in which six celebrity players become suspects in a murder case and they have to prove themselves innocent while at the same time try to solve the mystery of who killed the victim among them like the game 'Clue'.

Respect the law and love the Yangtze River. This time, we tell the world the Chinese story of judicial protection of ecological environment.

Three young and ambitious entrepreneurs must find a way to repay a mountain of debt from their failed startup, when they stumble upon an unthinkable "business" opportunity—exploiting people's religious beliefs for money.

(Source: Netflix)

Airs On: Wednesday

A sculptor who is determined to protect a jade ornament that can overturn the fortune of the country puts up a fight against sinister forces. Li Tian Shun is a jade sculptor from Beijing Old Street. He stands up against resident gangs to protect a national treasure. Despite his grassroots upbringing, he never retreats or bows down in the face of oppression, even as he almost loses his family. The neighborhood is filled with ordinary people, from Chinese opera singer Yang Shang De, Li Lian Zhang, camel herder Ding Guang Yuan, meat seller Ma De Shan, antique dealer Jin Zhao Ji, the temple's Man Wen Kui and a woman named Huan He Xiang, they display extraordinary courage amidst countless trials. When Ding Liu Lan returns home to Old Street as a Communist revolutionary, she brings with her a ray of hope for the future.

The film tells the story of narcotics police officer Huang Mingjin and the "mysterious figure" Wei Yunzhou. Through completely different means and methods, in the process of calculating and wrestling with each other, they tear apart the facade of urban tranquility, exposing the underground drug network woven by the hidden hand "Long Wang", and ultimately eradicate the darkness with the sword of justice, revealing the dawn of light.