Asian Drama

Having lost his colleague who was also his brother-in-law to a serial murderer two years ago, homicide detective Jae Hwan is unable to contain his hatred toward the murderer and dives headfirst into hunting the brutal killer. Jae Hwan finally comes face to face with the murderer Jin Hyuk but in the heat of the chase, they get into an accident. Waking up in a hospital, Jae Hwan realizes his body has been switched with that of the murderer. To protect his family and uncover the secret of this body switch, Jae Hwan begins a desperate chase.

When Kim Ji Yong was a child, his mother was beaten to death in the street. The culprit only received three and half years in prison. Kim Ji Yong—now an adult—sees that his mother's killer hasn't changed at all. Ji Yong takes matters into his own hands and beats him brutally.

Subsequently, Kim Ji Yong begins living two entirely different lives. On weekdays, he's a model student at the police university. During the weekends, he punishes criminals who'd recieved light sentences and continue to commit criminal acts. Now called Vigilante, Ji Yong receives help from admirer Cho Kang Ok. Meanwhile, Detective Cho Heon chases after the man called Vigilante.

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Adapted from a webtoon "Vigilante" ( 비질란테) written by CRG and illustrated by Kim Gyu Sam (김규삼)

Release dates: October 5, 2023 (Festival)

Episodes: 8

Oh Taek works as a taxi driver. One day, he had a dream where a lot of pigs appeared. This type of dream is thought to bring about good luck. On that same day, he earns his usual amount of money. When he thinks about calling it a day, a man named Geum Hyuk Soo asks Oh Taek to drive him to the port city of Mokpo. He offers a million won (~$1,000) to drive him. Oh Taek accepts the drive, but Oh Taek is not aware that Hyuk Soo murdered a man, and he is planning to stow away on a boat. Meanwhile, Hwang Soon Kyu is the mother of the man who was murdered by Hyuk Soo. She chases after her son's killer.

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Adapted from the webtoon "Unsuojinnal" (운수 오진 날) by Aporia (아포리아).

Release dates: October 5, 2023 (Festival) || November 20, 2023 (Online)

Episodes: 10

Han Dong Soo is a livelihood lawyer. He randomly picks a prisoner to visit and picks up a case. He is usually rational and reasonable, but deep within his mind exists a dark side. Something triggers him to cross the line and step into the world of evil. His younger half-brother is Han Beom Jae. Han Beom Jae works at a second-hand computer shop and he also acts as a case broker for Han Dong-soo, bringing him clients. One day, Han Beom Jae notices that Han Dong Soo has changed since he brought him a case.

That case involves Seo Do Young who is the #2 ranked member of a crime organization. He is a former baseball player and appears nothing like a typical gangster. Behind his handsome looks, he hides a cruel and unpredictable madness.

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Episodes: 10

Following the story of Ran, who confronts a mysterious organization by participating in a no-rules deathmatch after discovering her missing younger sister Yuzuki is involved in a crime. With danger at every corner, Ran must trade in her boxing gloves for brass knuckles. Will she save her sister?

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Adapted from the webtoon "Knuckle Girl" (너클걸) written by Jun Sang Young (전상영) and illustrated by You Sang Jin (유상진).

Set in Kumamoto, one year after Iruma Michio was transferred out of “Ichikei”. Whilst Michio is busy vigorously conducting trials at the Kumamoto District Court 2nd Branch, a case of grievous bodily harm arises, revolving around a young man named Suwa Haruto who intervened in a gang fight and is in critical condition. The suspect, Uchida Wataru, pleads guilty to the charges, and on the surface, it appears to be a cut and dry case that will result in a suspended sentence. However, as the investigation proceeds, it becomes clear that Wataru initially denied the charges during his police interrogation. Sensing there is more to the story and doubting the suspects’ guilt, Michio activates his authority and begins his own investigation.

Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Komazawa Yoshio, the head judge of “Ichikei”, is deliberating over a personal injury case between employees of the large company "Hoshizumi Holdings." The employees belonged to factions of the next company president candidates, and the case resembles a war by proxy. The parties involved, Oyabu Shigeyuki and Shimazu Natsuko only care about ending the trial as quickly as possible, which makes Komazawa even more irritated.

From these two completely unrelated cases, an unexpected connection arises. When things finally come to trial, what dreadful heartbreak and deep darkness is hidden at the center of these cases?

(Source: Japan Program Catalog)

Adapted from the manga "Ichikei no Karasu" (イチケイのカラス) by Asami Rito (浅見理都).

Episodes: 1

On an early morning, two dead bodies are found at a house. One deceased person is a senior citizen and the other deceased person is their caregiver. Shiba Munenori works for the same home health care agency that the deceased caregiver worked. Shiba Munenori is known as a kind and devoted caregiver. Yet, the police begin to target him as a suspect. While investigating the case, Prosecutor Otomo Hidemi learns that the home health care agency has an unusually high mortality rate. To uncover the truth, Otomo Hidemi confronts Shiba Munenori.

Adapted from the novel "Lost Care" (ロストケア) by Hamanaka Aki (葉真中顕).

Adapted from the novel “When a Snail Loves” (如果蜗牛有爱情) by Ding Mo (丁墨).

Depicts the rebellion that takes place when villains with different desires enter the Jungae Prison, where female inmates gather.

He Yan is a talented economics lecturer who is forced to help psychopath Fu Shenxing gain real power within his corporation. The street smart Xiao Wu is a police informant, and when he discovers Fu’s company is laundering money with foreign bank accounts, he uses his position as Fu Shenxing’s right-hand man to collect evidence. He befriends He Yan, and the two work together to destroy the criminal organisation.

Follows Rim Chul Ryung heading back to South Korea in pursuit of a brutal and secret criminal organization. He teams up again with Kang Jin Tae, who volunteers to work with the North Korean in order to get back on the investigation team after a mistake landed him in the cyber crime department.

A youth action romance about the bloody high school lives of mysterious transfer student and killer Gyeo Wool and traumatized high school student Yeo Reum as they meet and get chased down by a criminal organization.

A criminal mastermind, who goes by the nickname "The Professor", has a plan to pull off the biggest heist in recorded history.

Remake of popular Spanish series, La casa de papel (Money Heist).

The treasure map of the Ming Dynasty resurfaces, and Shen Yuan, the leader of the mysterious organization "Tianjimen", who is also known as the "Pirate Sage Yizhimei", appeared to seize the treasure, but was seriously injured by a trap set by Dong Chang. At the same time, Jin Yi Wei sent Zhou Mu Feng to rescue Yizhimei. Zhou Mu Feng, who was thought to have the same enemy was actually acting all along and has a deeper conspiracy. Shen Yuan was betrayed, and a life and death crisis began.

A crime drama which focuses on a profiler working with a policeman to solve quite unsual cases.

The young painter Shen Yi resigned from the Academy of Fine Arts and entered Haicheng Public Security Bureau mysteriously. Interpol Captain Du Cheng was furious and said that he would never accept those who caused his comrade to be killed in the police force. Five years ago, Shen Yi, who was still a student, was sketching on the street. A man took a picture of a child and asked him to draw what the child would look like as an adult. However, this painting caused Haicheng detective Lei Yifei to be exposed as an undercover agent and he was killed. And Lei Yifei happened to be Du Cheng's long-time friend and confidant. The strange thing is that, no matter how hard Shen Yi tried of recall for a few years, he couldn't draw the face of the man who asked him to paint the child's photo. Five years later, the guilt became heavier. In order to find out the truth, Shen Yi accepted the invitation of Director Zhang of the Public Security Bureau and became a portraitist of the Interpol Team. Under Zhang Ju’s persuasion and arrangement, Du Cheng had to accept that he became a colleague with Shen Yi, but he was still full of annoyance and despised Shen Yi’s “drwaing to solve cases,” and the two became the “ticking bomb” in the team. However, in several collaborations, Shen Yi has repeatedly cracked the "dead end" of cases with his "three-year-old painting old", "drawing based on audio," "micro-color discrimination" and other stunts, which slowly started to impress Du Cheng's. More importantly, the truth of Lei Yifei's death is still buried in Shen Yi's memory. On the way to find out the truth of Lei Yifei's life and death, the two people who were pursuing alone gradually untie their knots and rely on each other. In the end, "the heaven-matched partners" work together to uncover the dust-covered secrets and create a new world for each other.

It deals with the beginning of profilers who had to look into their minds to chase away demons that could not be called human beings in the days when the word profiling was unfamiliar and there was no concept of psychopaths, when a series of vicious criminals such as Yoo Young Chul, Jung Nam Gyu, and Kang Ho Soon appeared.

It will be another kind of drama that will give you a sense of immersion and tension that you've never experienced before. The original author, Profiler Kwon Il Yong, became a police officer in 1989 and became the first profiler in Korea in 2000. His name was made public when he profiled serial killers such as Yoo Young Chul and Jung Nam Kyu.

Kim Nam Gil will once again attempt a strong transformation by acting as a profiler of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's criminal behavior analysis team, which looks deeper into humans than anyone else and takes a more delicate look at others.

Adapted from the 2018 non-fiction book of the same title co-written by Korea's first criminal profiler Kwon Il Yong and journalist-turned-author Ko Na Mu, which tells the story of Kwon's field experiences.

Detective Higuchi Shogo and Emergency Command Center Leader Tachibana Hikari continue to work together to save victims and catch criminals as quickly as possible. They face an evil criminal, but the criminal is not a simple evil person. The criminal exhibits exploding anger, which some younger people have against society. Younger people feel the criminal's behavior is not just a crime, but like representing themselves.

Chimera incident, a serial murder and explosion crime that shook the year of 1984, takes place exactly the same thirty five years later in 2019. Just like the terrible explosion in the past, the murder of the crime is called Chimera, a monster in the Greek myth with the head of a lion, body as a goat, and tail as a snake that shoots fire through its throat. The story follows a violent crimes detective named Jae Hwan, a criminal profiler named Yoo Jin, and a surgeon named Joong Yeob, as they track down the criminal and uncover the secrets between the two cases.

The treasure map of the Ming Dynasty resurfaces, and Shen Yuan, the leader of the mysterious organization "Tianjimen", who is also known as the "Pirate Sage Yizhimei", appeared to seize the treasure, but was seriously injured by a trap set by Dong Chang. At the same time, Jin Yi Wei sent Zhou Mu Feng to rescue Yizhimei. Zhou Mu Feng, who was thought to have the same enemy was actually acting all along and has a deeper conspiracy. Shen Yuan was betrayed, and a life and death crisis began.

"Crime Puzzle" is a story where a criminal psychologist is sent to prison for murdering a political candidate, and the criminal profiler who loses her father to the murder is conducting interviews with the murderer for a case that occurs within the prison. These two used to be lovers just a year ago, until they meet again as a murderer and a criminal profiler, and face the unexpected truth to a series of murders. The thriller focuses on the process of them putting the pieces together, like a puzzle.

Adapted from the webtoon "Crime Puzzle" (크라임 퍼즐) by Meen.

A murder case happened in Chiba closely resembles the serial murders of seven years ago. However, the murderer has already committed suicide in prison. Is he falsely accused? Is it a copycat? The detective uncovers the shocking truth.

A genius detective teams up with a colleague to investigate a case that hits close to home, but the duo becomes entangled in a cat-and-mouse game.

A flawless crime, serial murder case without suspect is investigated.

An outstanding case forced the police and criminals to work hand in hand, go deep into the murder scene and compete with the murderer to get justice for the deceased. The two heroes teamed up to fight each other, but the undercurrent of the devil's deal was surging, and it was about to trigger another wave of an even greater crisis!

Adapted from the novel "The Pursuer" (追凶者) by Qian Yu Zhi Cheng (千羽之城).

Faced with the grief of his Master's death, painter Cheng Ren took a picture left by the Master and embarked on a journey searching for the truth. The truth has long been buried by history, but for the life of the living and the death of the dead, Cheng Ren broke through numerous obstacles. The six cases contained in it seem to be independent, but under the investigation, the cases are inextricably linked.

Koharu Fukuura works at city hall. She has ordinary days, where she isn't particularly happy or miserable. Overnight, her life completely changes. Her grandfather collapses, her father is arrested for driving while intoxicated, and her house burns down. She also witnesses her boyfriend having an affair with her colleague. She loses everything that night. Koharu Fukuura is now full of despair. At that time, she meets Doctor Daigo. He raises his 8-year-old daughter Hikari alone and he proposes to Koharu. He is like a prince to her. She accepts his proposal and they enjoy happy days together, but, one day, she commits a vicious crime.

Kida and Makoto have been friends since childhood. Later they befriend Yocchi, the new transfer student. Neither of them have parents, so they spend time with each other daily, essentially growing up together. An incident occurs when they are twenty and that tears their world apart. Years later, both boys are employed in the criminal underworld, with Kida as a negotiator and Makoto as a trading company’s CEO. It has now taken them ten years to get revenge on the world that changed their fates, so many years ago.

Adapted from the novel "The End of the Tiny World" (名も無き世界のエンドロール) by Yukinari Kaoru (行成薫).

The drama revolves around two police academy students with vastly different identities and four lost youths.

Astory of grievances between young policemen, their family and friends. With truth shrouded in the fog, only family, love, and friendship can travel a long way and reach a thousand mountains.

An assassin goes to Thailand in order to solve a kidnapping case linked to him, and finds himself chased by a man whose sibling he killed.

Saki Hoshino is 25-years-old and a member of the Cheat team. The Cheat team is a group of swindlers who target other swindlers that stole from people. The Cheat team was created by Detective Kazuki Anzai and consists of Police Officer Yuto Kamo, ex-private detective Shun Negishi, genius hacker Mizuki Maruyama and Saki Hoshino.

Meanwhile, Saki Hoshino has a secret. She is also a member of an unpopular idol group. The idol group consists of herself, Mai and Yuna. The manager of her idol group is Shinji Nakagome. Saki Hoshino uses the stage name of Momo Kisaragi when she performs with the group.

Kanako Oba uses a mysterious site to apply for part-time work. As a result, her life is soon in jeopardy. She is forced to work at the restaurant Diner as a waitress or she will be killed. The restaurant is membership only and their customers are all contract killers.

Songkrod and Auerkarn were a loving couple but then the bad guys killed Songkrod's family and kidnapped him. Auerkarn is sad that he’s gone. She's a doctor now but has not moved on from Songkrod. Songkrod returns after being trained and brainwashed by the bad guys, he identifies as Kim now. He came back to use magic to get revenge. When Auerkarn met Kim, she was confused because he looks like her former lover but he acts very differently. They slowly start to fall in love again.

Lu Ming Zhe, a police inspector is forced to take justice into his own hands when he seeks to arrest Cao Nan, the ringleader of a criminal gang. Against Ming Zhe’s better judgment, he agrees to use his childhood friend and ex-convict Tao Cheng Bang as an informant, but nothing can prepare them for the impending storm.