Asian Drama

A city where days bustling with people and nights staggering under the twinkling lights coexist. A series of disappearances occur in the middle of Gangnam. Jae Hui, an employee at an entertainment establishment who holds crucial evidence, suddenly disappears, and Yun Gil Ho, a problem solver in the entertainment district, begins to search for her. Gil Ho is not the only one looking for Jae Hui.

Detective Kang Dong U, who was demoted after exposing his colleagues' wrongdoings, is assigned to the investigation at the chief's request, and prosecutor Min Seo Jin, who is favored by the chief prosecutor, is also following the case. As club officials use every means necessary to track down Jae Hui, a series of disappearances intertwined with various desires expose the dark face of Gangnam.

(Source: Korean = Naver)

Episodes: 8

Airs On: Wednesday

Lee Han Shin, a former lawyer turned parole examiner, is dedicated to preventing inmates from exploiting the parole system through money, connections, or deceit—however, he's compassionate to people who are unjustly imprisoned, helping them whenever possible.

Han Shin teams up with ace detective An Seo Yun and unexpected ally legendary loan shark Choi Hwa Ran with the ultimate goal of confronting Ji Myeong Seop, a second-generation family business heir who believes he's above the law. Can this unlikely group succeed in its battle against corruption?

(Source: Rakuten Viki)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

Episodes: 10

Aired On: Saturday

Duration: 29 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Seo Dong Jae is a prosecutor and works in the Cheongju District Prosecutors’ Office. He is ambitious and places a priority on his success as a prosecutor. Nevertheless, he is not completely cold hearted as a person. Due to the label given to him as a corrupt prosecutor, his future as a prosecutor is not bright at all. While mired in trouble over a redevelopment case, he takes on a high school student murder case. He begins to walk a fine line between his intuition as a prosecutor and instinct as an opportunist.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 50 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Thursday

Kannami Ryoko has lived with her father since her mother died when she was young. With her excellent natural talent and obtaining vast knowledge by attending court trials, Ryoka passed the bar exam when she was in her 3rd year of high school. After that, her father suddenly disappeared. Ryoko did not try to find out why her father disappeared, and she didn't enter the law profession. Instead, she lived by herself. By accident, she now decides to work as a lawyer and joins a law firm. As a person who enjoys playing games, she treats each trial like it is a game. She will use any method to win her case and frequently employs unpredictable and unconventional means. She also fearlessly tackles various modern problems and derives her own unique answers.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Monday

Story follows the life of Inotsume Tomoko, who dreams to be a lawyer.

(Source: Japanese = nikkansports.com)

Episodes: 130

Duration: 15 min.

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

Cha Eun Kyung is a 17-year veteran star lawyer at Law Firm Daejung. Her specialty is in the field of divorce law. While working on divorce cases, she soon faces a crisis with her own potential divorce. At her law firm, she works alongside rookie lawyer Han Yoo Ri. They are entirely different from each other. Yoo Ri doesn't tolerate injustice, while Eun Kyung believes that the law firm's and her client's interests come first, no matter what. Due to their differences in values and experience, they disagree on everything. While working through their differences, they both experience a big change in their lives. They work with lawyers Jung Woo Jin and lawyer Jeon Eun Ho at Law Firm Daejung.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Friday, Saturday

A short film about the hearing and mysterious case of the former deputy mayor on atrocities and illegal activities in Taego in 1997.

The story of the forces that inherited wealth centered around the Woowon Group headquarters in the fictional Woowon City adjacent to the sea, the voodoo cartel that dominates the lawless area, and Judge Song Pan Ho, who comforts citizens seeking justice.

(Source: HanCinema)

Remake of the American TV series "Your Honor" [2020], which in turn is a remake of the Israeli TV series "Kvodo" (כבודו) [2017].

Episodes: 10

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

Have you ever been involved in an online flame war or a social media attack? A blogger housewife who became the target of slander and libel after being caught in the crossfire of unprovoked rumors went to a free consultation with a lawyer. The lawyer she met seems to be good at handling cyber crimes, but he's a bit... unusual. Everyone's a victim or a victimizer in today's digital age! The "real drama" of slander and information disclosure requests begins to unfold!

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Friday

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Kitazawa Tatsunosuke works as an elite bodyguard for a small bodyguard protection company. He is the ace of the company, with excellent athletic abilities, and is always able to see two or three steps ahead of a situation. When he takes action, he usually manages to stay calm and collected with his judgment. His father, who was a police officer, was stabbed to death.

Tatsunosuke, who is currently trying to pursue the killer, receives a request from the law firm to protect a new client. The client happens to be Kishimura Rika, a lawyer who is potentially being targeted due to a grudge against her in regard to a case she was in charge of. Because of this, she has to be under strict security 24 hours a day. Tatsunosuke, who is serious and stoic in nature, is largely inflexible and, naturally, not a good match for Rika, who hates being restricted. However, as they start to live together, their feelings toward each other begin to change.

(Source: Drama-Okatu)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Airs On: Saturday

When the outstanding Juge Qi Tao of the Criminal Investigation Division has to team up with the Second Execution Division Chief Chu Yun, two worlds collide. Indeed, both have their own ways of working, causing difficulties to successfully handle the court cases.

Will they solve their issues in the pursue of the greater good of the citizen of Quinggang City?

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

Tags: Courtroom Setting, Judge Female Lead, Judge Male Lead, Criminal Justice System, Investigation, Web Series (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 40

Duration: 45 min.

Country: China

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

Aired: Jun 27, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

When the outstanding Juge Qi Tao of the Criminal Investigation Division has to team up with the Second Execution Division Chief Chu Yun, two worlds collide. Indeed, both have their own ways of working, causing difficulties to successfully handle the court cases.

Will they solve their issues in the pursue of the greater good of the citizen of Quinggang City?

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

Tags: Courtroom Setting, Judge Female Lead, Judge Male Lead, Criminal Justice System, Investigation, Web Series (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 40

Duration: 45 min.

Country: China

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

Aired: Jun 27, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Japan has a conviction rate of 99.9% for criminal cases that goes to trial. A lawyer is able to defeat those odds and obtain an acquittal for his client, even though there's conclusive evidence that says otherwise. Sometimes, due to minor things, good and evil can switch sides and good people can become bad people.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Sunday

Sakuragi Miyabi is a high school student in Aomori. She lives with her lawyer grandfather and she receives special education from him in the field of law. Sakuragi Miyabi soon becomes the youngest person to pass the bar exam on their first try. A decision is then made to send Sakuragi Miyabi to her grandmother in Tokyo, who works as a director of a law office. Sakuragi Miyabi begins to work as an apprentice lawyer at her grandmother’s law office. Despite her position, she still has the mindset of a teenager and she sometimes has disagreements with senior lawyers. Meanwhile, Sakuragi Miyabi begins classes at her new high school in Tokyo. She hides her lawyer job from people at her high school, but she eventually begins to give counseling at her school on law matters.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Friday

Kariyama Riku's job is that of an architect. He works as the chief of the civil engineering design department for a large construction contractor and has dedicated his life to building bridges. He is a perfectionist at his job. Currently, Kariyama Riku is working on the construction of the Ryujin Bridge, the design of which began a couple of years ago. He soon faces unexpected difficulties.

Sisters Lee Hye Won and Lee Hye Ji were very close when they were children. After their parents divorced, they were separated. Lee Hye Won went to live with her father, and Lee Hye Ji went to live with her mother. Their lives went down different paths, but they both went through difficult times.

As an adult, Hye Won looks perfect, but she carries emotional wounds. Her life is dominated by her stepmother. Her fiancé is Yoon Ji Chang, and they are going to marry soon. Yoon Ji Chang is the son of Yoon Yi Cheol, who owns JY Group.

Meanwhile, Hye Ji has lived through poverty, loneliness, and domestic violence due to her mother and her stepfather. She badly wants to change her life and takes up the new name of Bae Do Eun. She then meets Yi Cheol, who is the owner of JY Group. To reboot her life, she enters into an affair with Yi Cheol. Then, she meets her older sister, Hye Won, for the first time since they were children.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 103

Duration: 40 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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

Adapted from the novel "Kaibutsu no Kikori" (怪物の木こり) by Kurai Mayusuke (倉井眉介).

Kariyama Riku's job is that of an architect. He works as the chief of the civil engineering design department for a large construction contractor and has dedicated his life to building bridges. He is a perfectionist at his job. Currently, Kariyama Riku is working on the construction of the Ryujin Bridge, the design of which began a couple of years ago. He soon faces unexpected difficulties.

Tells the story of prosecutor Han Ming who is involved in a difficult case where the intentional injury of people is turned into a legitimate defense.

Seo Ki Joo is a photographer and runs a small photo studio. He is the 7th owner of the photo studio and the shop is only for ghosts. Ki Joo takes portraits of the ghosts that come into the store.

Han Bom is a lawyer who is passionate about her work and does not tolerate injustice. Somehow, she ends up in a partnership with Ki Joo's photo studio. The studio also has two employees: Assistant Manager Go and Baek Nam Gu. Assistant Manager Go is in charge of bringing in ghosts as customers, and Nam Gu is in charge of taking care of small chores around the store.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

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

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

Kim Sa Ra was the daughter-in-law of the biggest law firm in South Korea, but she was betrayed by her husband and lost everything. After that, she began working as a divorce troubleshooter. She is now the team leader at the divorce settlement office Solution. She punishes bad spouses and provides help for those who find themselves in unfair divorce situations.

She works with Dong Ki Joon. He is Sa Ra’s business partner and an advisory lawyer at Solution. Before coming to Solution, he was an excellent prosecutor who had the nickname of "German Shepherd." He picked up the nickname because of his persistence and keen intuition, but Ki Joon left the prosecutors' office for an unknown reason. Sa Ra and Ki Joon work together for people who are suffering through difficult divorces.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 12

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Wednesday, Thursday

A legal drama about a former manager of entertainment agency who became a paralegal of a clumsy rookie lawyer.

Episodes: 11

Duration: 58 min.

Aired On: Friday

Are Cheng Yao dreams of becoming a top lawyer about to come true? It seems so – when she is unexpectedly recruited by a leading legal firm. Excited, she moves house so she can nearer her new office. She moves in, full of hope, and soon encounters her new roommate Qian Heng. However, a surprise awaits her on her first day at work.

Qian Heng turns out to be her direct superior at the office and he proves to be incredibly hard to please! Her training period quickly turns into a baptism of fire, and she starts to feel as though he is trying to chase her out of the company. But Cheng Yao won’t be so easily deterred. She redoubles her efforts, determined to prove she’s got what it takes. Could her zeal send this duo on the path to harmony and even love?

(Source: Viki)

Adapted from the web novel "What Comes Around Goes Around" (你也有今天) by Ye Fei Ran (叶斐然).

Episodes: 36

Duration: 45 min.

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

Two years after Iruma Michio left first criminal court ("Ichikei") of the Tokyo District Court, he now works as a judge at Setouchi in Okayama Prefecture. He currently has an injury case involving Japan's youngest ever Minister of Defense.

Meanwhile, Sakama Chizuru works as a lawyer, following the system of judges' gain other work experience. She is currently working on a case involving a large local company. Her case is located in a neighboring town from where Iruma Michio works. Their two cases seem totally unrelated, but a secret is revealed between the two cases.

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

Lawyer Chen Zhi Qi, who excels in her work-line, unintentionally finds herself involved in an heinous conspiracy theory that involves her client who is in death row.

Facing doubts by the inmate's family members, especially by Lin Shu, Chen Zhi Qi teams up with police officer Jin Zhi Xiong to investigate the situation, but the already suspicious case is gradually growing stranger and bloodier by the day...

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

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

Luo Ying Wei was initially an office worker who passed the judicial examination through self study; however, she suffers multiple blows: her marriage falls apart, what's worse, her husband Liu Ming took on huge loans leaving her deeply in debt. Luo Ying Wei is not one to give up as she chooses to fight back using legal means.

(Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Episodes: 40

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

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!