Asian Drama

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

Six residents try to uncover unprecedented incidents and mysteries in apartments in South Korea in this true-story mystery variety show that transcends time and space! Each episode will be based on real events and have a unique setting in a different period and location, stimulating viewers’ investigative skills and memories of each era.

Who will be the main character who will solve the secret?

(Source: tvN)

Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Friday

Ma Zhuo was born in Ya'an, Yucheng. At the age of eight, She was taken to Chengdu by her mother Lin Guoguo to live together. She grew up with Xia Gang's son Xia Ze. The two childhood sweethearts became each other's first love. Lin Guoguo and Xia Gang were accidentally involved in a strange murder. From then on, Ma Zhuo and Xia Ze were emotionally displaced, and their fate was tortuous, pursuing the truth of their fathers in danger and thorns.

(Source: Chinese = Douban || Translation = Sher1264)

Adapted from the novel "Li Ge" (离歌) by Rao Xue Man (饶雪漫).

Episodes: 24

Duration: 35 min.

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

Detectives are watching! A realistic case log of detectives chasing the truth.

(Source: Naver)

The story depicts parasites that fall from space and begin to kill to gain their own power by controlling the human brain and body by living off human hosts. The story revolves around Jung Soo In, who is infected with a parasite on her hand and starts a strange cohabitation as it fails to steal her brain.

Seol Kang Woo chases parasitic water to find his missing sister, and Choi Jun Kyung is the team leader of the parasitic life team ‘The Grey’ and lives only to exterminate the parasitic water after losing her husband to the parasitic water.

(Source: Korean = Newsen Media)

Adapted from the manga series "Kiseijuu" (寄生獣) by Iwaaki Hitoshi (岩明均).

Episodes: 6

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Airs On: Friday

The most intimate strangers.

Married for 7 years, they are better off apart than together.

Who’s the killer? Him? Her? Or both?

(Source: Weibo)

Episodes: 25

Duration: 45 min.

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

Season 2 of the popular webdrama Medical Examiner Dr. Qin.

The new season will be lead by Liu Dong Qin as the genius forensic expert, Liu Chang as the rugged policeman and Yu Sha Sha as the trusty assistant.

Yaemori Arisu runs a small restaurant named Alice’s Kitchen. She has autism spectrum disorder, which leads her to be stubborn at times and generally poor at communicating with other people. Her condition also allows her to have a phenomenal memory. She became interested in chemistry due to her single father, Yaemori Shingo, who teaches chemistry at a university. With her vast knowledge of chemistry, she understands nutrients and the cooking process from a scientific viewpoint. Her cooking skills are extraordinary, and her food always pleases.

At her restaurant, she works with her childhood friend Mitsumata Kazusa. Even though the restaurant is quite popular, they are the only two employees who work there. While Alice cooks dishes in the kitchen, Mitsumata is in charge of greeting and serving food to the customers.

One day, a young man named Sakae Kosei appears at the restaurant and asks to work there as a live-in part-time worker. Since then, Yaemori Arisu has experienced a big change in her life.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Sunday

Adapted from the manga series "Innai Keisatsu: Asclepius no Hebi" (院内警察～アスクレピオスの蛇～) written by Sakai Tsutomu (酒井義) and illustrated by Hayashi Ichi (林いち).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 58 min.

Episodes: 10

Jin Yi Soo has everything in life. Being a third-generation conglomerate, he never requires others’ assistance. However, things start changing when he gets entangled in a case.

Jin Yi Soo joins the violent investigative team at the Kangha Police Station that specializes in catching robbers. He aims to use his wealth and personal connections to his advantage. He works under Detective Lee Kang Hyun. Kang Hyun is dedicated and a smooth-talker and doesn't care for Yi Soo's presence when they begin working as partners.

(Source: sportskeeda.com)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Friday, Saturday

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Episodes: 20

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Wednesday

It tells the strange story of how a beautiful young girl, Choi Min Ah, turns into fried chicken because she happens to enter a mysterious machine. It follows Choi Sun Man, her father, and Go Baek Jung, an intern, who join efforts to turn her back to human and discover deep dark secrets in the process.

(Source: Kpopmap.com)

Adapted from the webtoon of the same name by Park Ji Dok (박지독).

Episodes: 12

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Friday

The outbreak of blue-green algae in Qijiang City, H province. Wang Wu, the vice mayor in charge of environmental protection, had to suspend his work due to overwork. Lin Han Jiang, a university professor who has made great achievements in the field of environmental protection, was appointed director of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Qijiang City.

After Lin Han Jiang took office, he found that cyanobacteria hide behind a greater environmental risk, and evidence is shown over the years from the Qijiang water sample testing report. With the support of the organization, Lin Han Jiang, without fear of power, found out the real cause of the blue-green algae outbreak. He was determined to solve not only the blue algae problem but also the water quality of the Qijiang River. However, it is easier to treat the symptoms than to cure the root causes. It is necessary to solve the environmental pollution in Qijiang from the root. It not only involves the largest industrial park in Qijiang City but also relates to the night market and boiler plant, which are both related to people's lives and livelihoods. It also faces the difficult choice of economic development and ecological environment protection.

However, Lin Han Jiang has always adhered to his original aspiration, defying difficulties, not only returning Qijiang to clean water and green mountains but also submitting a high-quality answer paper for balancing ecological protection and economic development.

Adapted from the novel "Jiang Liu Tian Di Wai" (江流天地外) by Dong Hua Ping (董化平).

Episodes: 24

Duration: 45 min.

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

Zhuo Jia Jun is a senior cyber technician who is targeted by his brother Jason and general manager Sun Bin. He has a daughter, Bao Er, with his wife, Du Yong Shan.

Jia Jun has developed a powerful AI program, "Yi Tai". Sun Bin accuses him of being involved in money laundering activities and threatens to cooperate with him against CEO Chen Ming Zhi.

Jia Jun doesn’t know who is his enemy and who is his friend, so he launches ”Yi Tai” in the hope of finding out the truth. This move alerts Chen Ming Zhi, who sends his men to intercept Jiajun and take away the SSD. As Chen activates the ”Yi Tai” for illegal theft and money laundering, Jia Jun and Yong Shan try to stop the operation of the ”Yi Tai”.

Yong Shan, a former brilliant hardware engineer, tries to use the computer to shut down the ”Yi Tai”. At this point, Chen Ming Zhi blackmails them to stop interfering with the ‘Yi Tai’ by kidnapping Bao Er. Jia Jun blackmails Chen in return, and when Chen Ming Zhi sees the amount of money plummeting, he asks Jia Jun to return to the company immediately to deal with the situation.

Jia Jun and Yong Shan return to the company, and they risk their lives to try to shut down ”Yi Tai”. Then Sun Bin appears, and Jason also appears with Bao Er…

(Source: Cpophome)

Duration: 1 hr. 51 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Producer: Cheang Pou Soi [鄭保瑞]

Cinematographer: Cheng Siu Keung [郑兆强]

Art Director: Lee Kwok Lam [利国林]

Costume Designer:Polly Chan [陳寶欣]

Have you had a client who drove you crazy because they made too many changes to their contract? Female artist Qiu Wang Yan suffers premature balding from the stress, and she has had enough. Unable to get out of her contract with the anonymous client without ruining her career, she decides to hire Zhong Feng, an assasin, to get rid of her pesky client. By doing so, she has to sign a contract with him too, and he does not allow any changes. Thus, they embark on a journey to track down and kill the "real" client.

Adapted from the web comic "Zhe Ge Sha Shou Bu Gai Xu Qiu" (这个杀手不改需求) by Ming Ri You Yu K (明日有雨K), MaoTtai (茅台) and Sen Yu Man (森雨漫).

Episodes: 28

Duration: 7 min.

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

A story about a lawyer who wants everyone to get justice.

The Earth receives an influx of X refugees, who were deported from their home planet due to a dispute. Countries on Earth agonize over how to deal with the influx of these interplanetary immigrants. The U.S. government announced that they would accept X refugees, and the Japanese government announced that they would also accept X refugees.

The X refugees transform their appearance into human beings and live among ordinary humans. Residents in the host countries are unable to distinguish X refugees by appearance, and they have no idea if any of them live among them. People become anxious, confused, and afraid of the X refugees, and they try to find the refugees who may live among them.

Sasa Kentaro is a weekly magazine journalist. For a story, he hides his identity as a journalist and approaches Kashiwagi Ryoko, who is suspected of being an X refugee. He gets close to her and begins to have feelings for her, but he's not certain if she is human.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the novel "Rinjin X" (隣人X) by Pallus Ayako (パリュス　あや子).

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Episodes: 20

Duration: 15 min.

Aired On: Wednesday

Khem and Wan, two young men from Chachoengsao take on the mission to investigate the truth hidden inside "Man Suang", the most luxurious and mysterious entertainment club in Siam. Behind the curtain, people gather to plan and make political negotiations during the end of King Rama III's reign. The two friends join the troupe and meet Chatra, a taphon musician. The relationship between the three develops while the dark secret of Man Suang and their hidden motives begin being revealed bit by bit.

This mission, thus, involves murder, rebelion, the search for truth, and a major change for both the kingdom and the three men.

(Source: Major Group)

A female college student has fallen from a building. Cheng Rui, the deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment who is new to his post, has been commissioned by deputy director Du Yulin to investigate the case.

During his investigation, Cheng Rui discovers that the woman's death is related to crimes like fraud masked as loans and subsequent violence from aggressive debt collectors.

Businessman An Yiming has been listed as a key target for investigation. Cheng Rui wants to look into the case further but he has been asked to close the case as soon as possible. In a city full of danger, An Yiming's wife Zhou Tong and economics professor Zhao Xianyu are caught in the fray. Cheng Rui and his colleagues are deep into the case without realizing that there is a bigger conspiracy behind it.

Duration: 1 hr. 52 min.

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Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Saturday

In 1999, Young Mi, cruelly nicknamed “Ms. Apocalypse,” develops a crush on a married man who is imprisoned for embezzlement. Young Mi ends up imprisoned for aiding his crime. When she is released, her crush’s wife, Yu Jin, visits, offering to pay off her husband’s debt. Yet, because Yu Jin is physically disabled, Young Mi feels uneasy about taking her money. The two women eventually begin to live together. Their story is poignant yet consistently cheery, enlivening, and energetic.

(Source: BIFF)

Release dates: Oct 5, 2023 (Festival) || Jan 24, 2024 (Cinema)

Duration: 1 hr. 56 min.

Cho Yeo Hwa has been a widow for 15 years. Her in-laws are the most prestigious noble family in the area. During the day, she lives quietly at home and never goes outside. But, during the night, Yeo Hwa secretly jumps over the surrounding wall and takes care of people who need help. In the process, she gets involved with Park Soo Ho, and she begins to dream about her future. Meanwhile, Soo Ho is a senior officer. He is good at his job and has an attractive appearance.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 12

Airs On: Friday, Saturday

Remake of the Spanish movie "The Invisible Guest" (Contratiempo) [2017].

Yaemori Arisu runs a small restaurant named Alice’s Kitchen. She has autism spectrum disorder, which leads her to be stubborn at times and generally poor at communicating with other people. Her condition also allows her to have a phenomenal memory. She became interested in chemistry due to her single father, Yaemori Shingo, who teaches chemistry at a university. With her vast knowledge of chemistry, she understands nutrients and the cooking process from a scientific viewpoint. Her cooking skills are extraordinary, and her food always pleases.

At her restaurant, she works with her childhood friend Mitsumata Kazusa. Even though the restaurant is quite popular, they are the only two employees who work there. While Alice cooks dishes in the kitchen, Mitsumata is in charge of greeting and serving food to the customers.

One day, a young man named Sakae Kosei appears at the restaurant and asks to work there as a live-in part-time worker. Since then, Yaemori Arisu has experienced a big change in her life.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Sunday

The murder of Sudo Isao, a used car dealer, occurs in Shizuoka Prefecture in 2008. Detective Kusaka Satoru of the Shizuoka Prefectural Police’s Susuno Precinct, checks his background. He learns that Sudo’s young son Obata Mamoru from a previous marriage, died in a kidnapping incident in Shizuoka in 1974. In 1988, with just one year before the statute of limitation on the kidnapping case ran out, a special investigation unit was formed under the instructions of the Shizuoka Prefectural Police’s police chief Hashibami Yasuhide. Shigeto Seiichiro, who rose to the rank of superintendent despite being a non-career officer, became the director and led a group of six capable detectives in the re-investigation. Kusaka cannot comprehend why Sudo, who lived in Tokyo more than 20 years after the death of his son, was murdered in Shizuoka Prefecture. He instinctively knows that delving into the kidnap and murder of the child will shed light on the case. Kusaka visits Shigeto who has left the police for a long time and searches for clues. He makes contact with Mamoru’s mother Saeko and her older sister Rie, and gradually draws near the real culprit.

Dong, an aspiring actor who is finally getting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fame, wakes up with a dead woman, Meng, beside him. Unable to piece together the night before, Dong is determined not to let it stand in his way. He cleans up the scene and sets it up like a robbery went wrong, but unknowingly leaves traces of himself to be found. While the police search the apartment, it turns out all the residents have something to hide. Unravelling the cause of Meng’s death proves difficult, as everyone seems to have a motive for this murder...

(Source: pavilion.taicca.tw; edited by olivestulip at MyDramaList)

Episodes: 8

Duration: 45 min.

Aired On: Wednesday

Following a tragic car accident, two childhood friends were separated. Many years later, they reunited as foster siblings. They probed and tested each other, navigating through the maze of love and potential family feuds. After many hardships, they worked together to uncover the truth behind the fateful accident. They then lived happily ever after.

(Source: Youku)

Adapted from the web novel "Desire to Flirt" (野，才带劲) by Hong Mao Zi (紅帽子).

Episodes: 27

Duration: 10 min.

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

Ratings: 7.3

The external environment and the emotions of others are huge stimuli to the "highly sensitive" policewoman Yao Zi Ru, but her keen sense of touch can help solve the case.

Before sin, most people were just "spectators." But there are more "perpetrators" than criminals in the world, because of cold violence, and emotional abuse... It's not a crime.

Until they met the restaurant owner, Wang Mi Xi, who had the same empathy, and the two fell in love.

The perpetrators who had been at large in the past were killed, and there were traces of burning sage next to their bodies. "Sage Killer" wants to purify the world. The policewoman pursued it freely, but she never thought that the killer was Mi Xi. Mi Xi does not want to be a bystander but uses extreme means. You can only make painful choices...

(Source: inf.news)

Episodes: 20

This is the story of a chief inspector in the anti-narcotics unit who holds true to his beliefs as a police officer. He puts everything on the line to crack down on drugs and bring drug traffickers to justice. How will our hero resolve this “bursting point” crisis?

(Source: thefilmcatalogue.com)

The story of Song Ci who is the originator of forensic medicine.

(Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Episodes: 25

Duration: 38 min.

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