Asian Drama

Kuno Totono is a college student with naturally curly hair. He is extremely smart and loves curry, but doesn't have any friends or a girlfriend. Kuno Totono loves to talk and he can often solve difficult problems simply by talking it through. One day, Kuno Totono visits the city of Hiroshima. There, he gets involved with a mystery involving the succession of the Kariatsumari family’s property.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the manga "Mystery to Iunakare" (ミステリと言う勿れ) by Tamura Yumi (田村由美).

In the late 20th century, lives a skilful and courageous doctor named Lin Hao. Along with his passionate and easygoing boss Wu Ren Yao, understanding and kind nurse Wu Ruo Lan, they operate a medical hall at the border of Hui Zhou Town. He also forms a friendship with Zeng Fan, who just returned from studying medicine overseas; as well as He Xin Xin, a straightforward girl who works at the martial arts art house. As the group of people work together to cure patients, a mysterious case surfaced which links to the death of Lin Hao's parents. Lin Hao decides to investigate the truth, and the perpetrator turns out to be none other than the father of someone he trusts...

Qi Heng, vice president of the Qizhou Intermediate People's Court, took over the complicated "fishing boat murder case" as soon as he took office and peeled back the survivors' testimony to find loopholes in them. At the same time, Luo Huai Gong's "Jiang Yun Chemical Group'," causes the villagers living near the factory to suffer from terminal illness. Soon, both cases will connect together in an unexpected way.

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Airing on Shanghai News App (上海的新闻综合频道)

Episodes: 34

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Episodes: 26

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Episodes: 5

Duration: 20 min.

Aired On: Tuesday, Friday

Ichijo Rei is an elite lawyer who works at S&J Law Office, the largest law firm in Japan. Born into a family who has worked in the legal field for generations, his education, income and looks are all perfect. And yet despite this, he is not good with romance and has no luck with women at all.

Yuki Rinko is a female lawyer who comes from a humble background, but has the skill of a hyena who will use any means necessary to win. These two individuals, who are completely different from each other, compete for survival in the cut-throat legal world and fall in love with each other along the way.

(Source: DramaOtaku)

Episodes: 10

Three people come from different backgrounds and face their own troubles. Their fate leads them to face each other as their destinies become intertwined.

At 0AM on December 24th, a fatal shooting case takes place at a Yamashita wharf in Yokohama. When Suguroji Seiji wakes up, he finds a dead person right in front of him. The dead person was shot in the head. Suguroji Seiji can’t remember anything about what happened, but he becomes the prime suspect. He is chased by the police. He follows his blurred memories and tries to find clues about the murder.

Tachiaoi Tokio is a chef of a famous restaurant in Yokohama. The restaurant has been there for 80 years and through 3 generations. Since his wife died, Tachiaoi Tokio has been alone. He has decided never to fall in love again. On Christmas Eve, he is busy preparing meals for his restaurant that is completely booked. At that time, a male stranger breaks into his restaurant.

Kurauchi Kikyo works as a newscaster for a local TV station in Yokohama. She has hosted her news program for 10 years. Suddenly, she is informed that her news program is canceled and she will be transferred to a cooking program. Nevertheless, Kurauchi Kikyo heads out to the shooting murder case site to cover her last news story.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

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

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.

Yoo Yi Hwa lives with her husband, who is indifferent to her. Yoo Yi Hwa's life as a housewife is comfortable but boring. She begins to work at a bank as a contract worker. While working at the bank, she regains her confidence. But, Yoo Yi Hwa begins to steal money from her clients.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the novel "Kami no Tsuki"(紙の月) by Mitsuyo Kakuta (角田光代).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 1 hr. 5 min.

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday

Ratings: 7.6

Rin is a woman who appears to have it all: She is a key member of the VIP customer management team at a major Thai department store. The team caters to the store’s super-rich clients, providing private shopping sessions and exclusive services. As well as being successful, she is also beautiful, and has a dashing and equally successful husband Pakawat, the team leader of the same management team. But her life comes crashing down around her one late night, she hears Pakawat having a heated argument with someone on the phone.

Soon after, she receives an anonymous text message that reads “Your husband is having an affair with someone from your team.” All of a sudden, Rin is consumed with suspicion, eager to find out who sent the message. She begins to suspect Pakawat may be cheating on her behind her back with someone she thought she could trust. Is Pakawat a love rat? And if so, who has he been cheating on her with?

(Source: Viki)

Episodes: 10

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.

(Source: AsianWiki)

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

Release dates: October 5, 2023 (Festival)

Episodes: 8

Police detective Chu Yi Han goes undercover to infiltrate a criminal organization in hopes of finding his mother. By chance, he encounters Gu Lin Na.

(Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Episodes: 24

Retells of Dr. Cheon, a false exorcist who can't hear or see ghosts but solves all types of cases with his ghostly insight, receives a contract for a powerful possession case he's never seen before. (Source: JTBC News, edited by Krystale Mitaesa)

When heinous criminals avoid punishment from the law, all citizens over 18 years old receive a text message polling them on whether that person should receive the death penalty. If more than 50% respond in favor of the capital punishment, that person is killed by "Dog Mask" - unknown, working in virtual world persona. Meanwhile, the police chase after "Dog Mask" and three people become involved because of it:

Kim Moo Chan leader of the First Investigation Team at the Southern Police Agency, Kwon Seok Joo former famous legal scholar, who killed the rapist who attacked his young daughter and then turned himself in to the police and Joo Hyun - a police officer who has worked at the Cyber Safety Bureau at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency for 5 years.

Adapted from the webtoon "Gukminsahyeongtupyo" (국민사형투표) written by Um Se Yoon (엄세윤) and illustrated by Jung Yi Pum (정이품).

Episodes: 12

While at sea, the loyal butler on a luxury cruise, Ubukata Suguru, and a mysterious woman named Banjaku Chizuru cross paths as they try to uncover a murder-mystery that occurs on the ship.

(Source: Variety)

Watanabe Tatsuya, the falsely accused newspaper reporter decides to run for State Governor to change Tokyo. The Democratic Liberal Party Headquarters, which wants to clear its name in the next gubernatorial election, recommends political commentator Kawamoto Eita as an official candidate.

Meanwhile, Saki, the daughter of Ujihara Takumi, the president of Hamashio Construction, a major general contractor, is kidnapped. The culprit's request is to cancel the land reclamation project in Tokyo Bay, which is being promoted by Hamashio Construction under the leadership of Suzuki Ichiro, the secretary-general of the Democratic Liberal Party. Kenichi becomes a negotiator with the criminal, in order to make a hostage exchange to save Saki. Who is the culprit of the kidnapping case and what is its purpose?

(Source: DramaOtaku)

Episodes: 5

In this suspenseful story, scholar Fan Luo Luo disguises herself as a man and comes to Yecheng Yamen to work as a police officer. Unexpectedly, she met Gu Qian Mo, a young minister from Dali Temple who concealed his identity and came to investigate the theft of weapons. The two started a full-fledged daily life as colleagues. As the truths emerged one by one, love also grew and spread in their hearts...

(Source: TencentVideo)

Episodes: 24

It tells the story of a former out of date movie star in old Shanghai who gets involved in a confusing murder case. In order to prove her innocence, she joins hands with her personal female assistant to find out the truth.

This drama focuses on the two girls with extremely contrasting personalities and identities. Hu Xiaodie was originally an over-packaged commercial female star; Hua Xiaoqing is a young independent woman, who had returned from abroad to her family’s downfall. In order to clear the suspicions on them, they begin to learn the knowledge of investigation and reasoning skills, and eventually grow to become the nemesis of crime, with the help of the Central Police Station.

Episodes: 24

Fujiko is a rare bloodthirsty serial killer. The only survivor of a brutal murder that killed her whole family when she was 11 years old, she suffered massive trauma. Before she is aware of it, she has become a bloodthirsty killer who only pursues happiness. But her life starts to derail – “I can reset my life,” she would mutter as she kills over and over again. Why does she murder?

Adapted from the novel "Satsujinki Fujiko No Shoudou" by Mari Yukiko.

Episodes: 6

Kozono Yohei, secretary general of Shoto University, was found stabbed to death in his home. Hoshino Naoto, a detective at Fujimi Police Station, rushes to the scene and sees the scene of the murder in the living room. Tanimura Kaho, a lecturer at Shoto University's Department of International Studies, is trying to get ahead in life at any cost, and has been having an affair with Kozono, who holds the right to personnel affairs, for half a year. Kozono is murdered, and Kaho is arrested as a murderer. On the other hand, reporter Maruyama Sota receives information about the affair via anonymous email, and realizes that someone is trying to manipulate the impression of the incident, and begins his own investigation. In the midst of this, Hoshino feels uncomfortable with the investigative policy of the upper-level police, which concludes that Kaho is the culprit in a half-baked investigation, and eventually realizes that Kaho may have been framed by someone.

(Source: U-NEXT SQUARE)

Episodes: 8

Crime scenes are evolving day by day. However, there is always a smoking gun, the crucial piece of evidence that points to the culprit. Korea's foremost authority on forensic medicine, a 32-year veteran police officer who is now a researcher at the Institute of Criminology, and one of Korea's first-generation profilers gather to analyze the final messages left by victims, the scenes of the crime, and the psychology of criminals. We invite you to discover the importance of forensic science through vivid stories of forensic investigations and to empathize with the victims\u2019 stories.

Episodes: 30

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?

(Source: Amazon)

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

No struggle, no youth. They are young prosecutors in the new era. They have excellent skills, work hard, and guard against fairness and justice with the help of legal supervision. No cross-border, no future. They discover, seek, explore, challenge, and empower the prosecution and propaganda. Love, concentration, and hard work are their inner voices; curiosity, imagination, and creativity are their magic weapon for success; seeking correct solutions, perseverance, and consistency are their spiritual coordinates. Follow their footsteps and experience the show time of prosecutors in the new era together!

The play is set in the turbulent period of the Republic of China in Shanghai. In a turbulent era, the forensic doctor Che Su Wei and the gentleman detective Gu Yuan are intertwined with various forces. Deputy Inspector Kang Yi Chen, and the innocent and lively reporter Cao Qing Luo worked together to crack out a number of weird and curious cases, and restore the truth.

(Source: Trakt)

Episodes: 23

Lin Wan Qing, the timid and hesitant leader of the Miduoduo Armed Escort Agency, infiltrates the supreme court as a part-time assassin to revive the agency. Su Mo Yi, the cold and ruthless official of the supreme court, plays along and gets acquainted with the kind Lin Wan Qing head-on. They join forces to investigate cases and protect the imperial city, ultimately achieving a successful love story that goes both ways.

(Source: iQIYI)

Episodes: 20

Soo Hyun buys a secondhand washing machine online, making her the latest target of some warped vigilante. Detective Na investigates to determine the identity of the culprit terrorizing Soo Hyun.

(Source: Soompi; Kdramastars)

Two Chinese commercial vessels are ambushed while traveling down the Mekong River in the waters of the Golden Triangle, one of the largest drug-manufacturing regions in the world. 13 sailors are executed at gunpoint, and 900,000 methamphetamine pills are recovered at the scene. Upon discovery, the Chinese government immediately sends a band of elite narcotics officers led by Captain Gao Gang to the Golden Triangle to uncover the truth behind the murders. Tea field owner and Golden Triangle-based intelligence officer Fang Xin Wu joins the investigation. After it was discovered that the drugs seized on the Chinese ships had been planted by the henchman of a notorious drug cartel leader named Naw Kham, the governments of Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and China launched a joint task force to apprehend the criminal. The road to justice is, however, paved with dangerous and deadly obstacles...

Inspired by the true story known as the Mekong Massacre.

Set in Seoul in the 1990s, a former DJ starts selling a new powerful drug nicknamed "Gangnam Crystal" in city nightclubs after mastering a gangster organization. Since the police know little about the origin of such drugs, in order to crack down on this rampant drug trafficking organization, rural police officer Park Jun Mu is assigned to sneak into the organization, only to discover that his wife, Yoo Eui Jung , also a detective, has volunteered to participate in this dangerous mission and seems to have an unspeakable past with the heinous underground drug king. Park Jun Mu in this drug-related mission, not only does he wholeheartedly fight the drug cartel, but also works hard to protect his wife's safety at all times.

(Source: Korean = jcw.hk.wookies.new)

Episodes: 12

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Episodes: 5

Karasawa Toshiaki stars as Shitara Kyoichi, a mysterious fixer who can resolve any disputes and problems in the political and corporate world which the law and the police cannot handle. The story begins from the point when Kyoichi has finished serving his prison sentence.

One night, a car carrying the prime minister is involved in an accident, falling off a cliff. The deceased driver is suspected of drunk driving….. Furthermore, suspicion begins to mount that there is a connection to a secret scandal surrounding the approval of a new drug. Meanwhile, a man approaches the prime minister’s secretary, who is busy dealing with the accident. His name is Shitara Kyoichi, also known as the “fixer”. Kyoichi had covered up the PM’s misconduct in the past and had talked with the PM on the phone just before the accident. Was this an accident or was this a set-up in the political world? The prime minister, who has not regained consciousness, is forced to resign and an election for a new leader begins. Kyoichi then takes on the role of kingsmaker with the ruling party’s presidential candidates.

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Episodes: 5