Asian Drama

Aiko Uzaki (Satomi ISHIHARA) is a "daddy's girl" who was raised by her father as her mother died when she was one. Her father, Kentaro (Saburo TOKITO) has set up some strict rules and controlled his daughter's life literally 24-7. Now that she's 20 years old and has started working for a fashionable clothing company, it's only natural that she expects some freedom, but that's not what her father thinks. When she falls in love with a nice young man, Seiji MIURA (Junnosuke TAGUCHI), even her strict father reluctantly accepts the fact that his daughter has her own life, but then, they have to overcome some difficulties. This is a heartwarming comedy about an outrageous yet strong bond between a father and a daughter who try to find out the true meaning of happiness through lots of laughter and tears.

When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what's going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of mother, teacher and child, the truth gradually emerges.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Release Dates: May 17, 2023 (Festival) || June 2, 2023 (Cinema)

Duration: 2 hr. 6 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

Salaryman Masumi goes to great lengths to get his 6-year-old daughter into a prestigious primary school.

Duration: 1 hr. 54 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

In order to claim the arrears, two laid-off workers took temporary care of Qian Qian, the daughter of the debtor, but they didn't expect Qian Qian to have an accident.

(Source: IMDb)

Why did the girl have to die? The mother becomes the tycoon's father's lover... The father becomes the tycoon's wife's hair stylist... The uncle becomes the tycoon's daughter's Korean tutor... And the sister becomes a journalist investigating the tycoon's son... The family of the high school girl disguise themselves to infiltrate the tycoon's life in order to uncover the truth behind their beloved daughter's death. Revealing shocking truths on the way, this is a story about an imposter family tackling mysteries and seeking revenge!

(Source: YTV)

Episodes: 10

Chi Yue is a modern-day action movie star who accidentally time travels back in time into the life of a young widow of the Li family who has a stepson and two stepdaughters. Thrust into a role completely foreign to her, she begins to get closer to her children and works hard to take care of them. She punishes the vicious relatives who dare to bully the kids. She becomes able to house, clothe, and feed the kids thanks to the successful winery and business she starts. She even teaches her eldest son to hunt and encourages her second daughter to study. In turn, the children grow to love and depend on her.

But someone is out to harm Chi Yue, causing her to fall into crisis after crisis. Will her modern-day thinking save her... or fail her?

(Source: Chinese = Baidu)

Adapted from the web novel "Chuan Cheng Si Ge Tuo You Ping De E Du Hou Niang" (穿成四个拖油瓶的恶毒后娘) by Chi Jin Yin (池金银).

Episodes: 24

Duration: 10 min.

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

At Seven Star Town, a high-class facility where Asako works as the head nurse, wealthy elderly people are elegantly living the last chapters of their lives. For Asako, who was living a humble life and taking care of her mother, it was a world far from herself. Satsuki, who works in Seven Star Town, also takes care of her parents who live with her, and her colleague Kuniko also has problems in the family over caring for her father. Asako has problems finding a facility for her mother. Both Satsuki and Kuniko face headwinds in their lives every day. Asako and her friends put into action a bold plan to break the status quo, and the drama of the people gathered in Seven Star Town begins to come alive. Will they be able to find paradise on earth?

(Source: Japanese = NHK)

Adapted from the novel "Warera ga Paradise" (我らがパラダイス) by Hayashi Mariko (林真理子).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 49 min.

Aired On: Sunday

Fukabori Marie is a charismatic wedding planner and company president who is relied on by everyone, regardless of whether she is her boss or subordinate. Her husband Yusaku, an unsuccessful manga artist on the verge of going out of business, and his son, Junki, who dreamed of becoming an idol but was rejected at an audition, lost his way. In addition, her father who became alone due to a middle-aged divorce also came and she had to feed three useless men!

(Source: Japanese = NTV)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Aired On: Wednesday

The middle-aged couple at the center of this drama somehow seems to pull through despite constant quarreling. The critical husband has clearly found his match in an equally combative wife, with one hilarious encounter after another revealing the love/hate relationship which typically underlies modern marriages.

Episodes: 11

Kaseifu no Mitazono is back for a sixth season. Mr. Mitazono is a strong housekeeper who dresses as a woman and has exceptional housekeeping skills. Whenever he is sent to a client's house in order to carry out the work, he is able to pick out the deepest rooted secrets that exist among the family.

This time, he is joined by Yaguchi Miyu, a 20 year old newbie housekeeper.

(Source: DramaOtaku)

Episodes: 9

A woman who needs to be loved in an endless romance. She cannot go without love for even a single day. Despite being dumped and betrayed again and again, she keeps on falling in love with men.

(Source: MBC)

Episodes: 108

In 1999, before people left a digital trail, a fake family is born. In an effort to make his dying father proud, Pong recruits a makeshift family. His ex-girlfriend Lily will play the role of his wife and mother to their two fake children played by pager company employee Kek and video rental shop owner Bung.

Episodes: 8

It tells the decades of life and growth of young people living in the Hutong, Beijing. The unique perspective shows the aggressive and innovative fighting spirit of Li Qiang, Chen Wal, Hu Meihua, and Wu Xikai in the new era where the "little people" made efforts to change their own destiny and pursue ideals and a better life.

The Tenpo period near the end of the Edo period. Katsuie's wife, Onobu, struggles to make ends meet, but never ceases to smile innocently. Her husband is Katsu Kokichi. His arms are very strong and she can't say she doesn't like it when asked. Her son, Rintaro, is clever, intelligent, aspiring to study Dutch studies, and eventually saves the people of Edo as "Katsu Kaishu."

The era is the reform of Tenpo. In addition to the noisy world, every time Kokichi brings in trouble, he is confident. Furthermore, Rintaro falls in love with Fukagawa geisha! Katsuya continues to make a fuss.

Gu Wentong, a middle-aged living alone, meets a young photographer Ouyang Wenhui at work. By chance, Gu Wentong learns the whereabouts of his father, who has been missing for more than 40 years. With the encouragement of Ouyang Wenhui, Gu Wentong chooses to face his father and regains the long-lost father-son relationship.

In 1976 on a remote island, school teacher Eun-young wants to take her students on a field trip to a cookie factory in Seoul. Even though the parents don't like the idea, Eun-young succeeds in convicing them. But once they arrive in the complicated city, some students become fascinated with high-tech bicycles and get lost.

This anthology series set during the pandemic follows 10 unique love stories of passion and heartache.

(Source: Netflix)

Episodes: 10

Three children born on the same day, the same month, and the same year, became brothers and sisters without blood by chance. Although they have the same birthday and grew up under the same roof, they have very different personalities. Because of the influence of the original family, they have their own considerations when facing love, family or personal problems, and different choices have also created different fates in the future. After going through all the trials and tribulations of life, will they be able to re-examine the relationship between their family members, compare their hearts with their hearts, and reconcile with the past?

Episodes: 20

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Duration: 1 hr. 32 min.

Two girls who grew up in different single-parent families, went to the same school since they were young, and entered the same workplace as colleagues when they grew up. The two have very different appearances and personalities, and they have been fighting for more than ten years without getting tired. One day, a mafia boss suddenly appeared in their lives, claiming to be their father, but the two turned out to be half-sisters...

(Source: Wikipedia)

Episodes: 60

Set in the late 1920s, it follows the three daughters of Shanghai department store giant Xinghua as they go head to head against each other to determine the true heir who will ensure the family’s continued prosperity.

"Himawari" is a comedy that focuses on the main character, Akiko, who works in the same company as her father, Kenichi No.1 and wants to become a manga artist. Akiko's love interest is Kenichi No.2.

Adapted from the manga "Himawari: Kenichi Legend" (ひまわりっ 健一レジェンド) by Higashimura Akiko (東村 アキコ).

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Episodes: 8

Mitazono Kaoru is a housekeeper and belongs to Musubi Housekeeper Agency. He dresses up as a woman. He is perfect at his job, but he is also full of mystery. When he is sent to a client's house to work, he is able to pick out secrets that exist in the family and reveal them. Motokariya Motoko joins Musubi Housekeeper Agency.

A variety show focused around the KPOP group EN-HYPEN where they complete games, obstacle courses, and trivia in order to strengthen their friendship and trust.

A story set in the world of fashionable jewelry that revolves around a woman who hides her identity to unravel a secret while proving herself to be an outstanding jerweler.

When Bai Xining was ten years old, her life is turned upside down and she goes from being an heiress of a jewelry enterprise to completely penniless. She is sent to Australia to be adopted by a Chinese couple and loses all contact with her home country. However, she eventually discovers that the reason her mother was sent to prison was because she had been framed. Fifteen years later, Xining who has earned a dual degree through her own hard work and capability joins the company that was once owned by her mother. She finds herself in the center of a power struggle between Li Zhuoran and Lin Yi.

(Source: ChineseDrama)

Episodes: 45

Remake of the British TV series "Doctor Foster" [2015].

Episodes: 16

The owner of My One and Only, Ma Limin, aspires to become a real estate developer with her son Hao Renpin, offering one-stop services for property purchase and renovation with her husband Hao Haojian and interior designer Wan Defu, who run How Luck Renovation. Their interactions with their clients reveal stories about different types of families.

Talap, a beautiful slave girl was raped by her master Manas. As a result, his first wife Thanthip hates her. Pregnant from the assault, Talap's child ends up dying after delivery as the result of Thanthip's vengeance. In retaliation, Talap decides to take away Thanthip's own daughter. As time passes, the abducted young girl grows into a beautiful young woman. Now Talap plans on bringing the father and daughter into a forbidden relationship for the ulitmate revenge.

(Source: thaidramatic_update; edited by Soju)

Episodes: 10

When Ozu’s older sister and her husband suddenly pass away after an accident, 32 year-old Ozu temporarily moves to Fukushima from Tokyo, in order to look after his 12 year-old niece Mei during the summer vacation. He has a modern way of thinking but is lethargic about everything in his daily life. In Fukushima he meets the local residents who have been living positively with the aim of recovering from the Great East Japan Earthquake, as well as the immigrants who have come from outside of the prefecture in order to realize their aspirations.

As he resides alongside his artistic niece, their bond starts to deepen, and through his interactions with Mei and the many residents of Fukushima, he starts to change and grow as a person.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 10

Yamashita Tomo is just an average junior high school girl...but her father is a "NEET" (Not in Employment, Education or Training) and her mother is an "old man"?

Akari's birth mother is originally from Osaka. She moves to Osaka to live with her grandmother to learn more about her mother. She learns that her grandmother closed the okonomiyaki (a Japanese savory pancake) restaurant after Akari's teenage mother had ran away. Akari then re-opens the okonomiyaki restaurant and tries to start the business on her own.