Asian Drama

Kim Baek Doo participates in the traditional Korean wrestling sport of ssireum and is a member of the ssireum team for the Geosan County Office. Baek Doo was born as the youngest son of a prestigious ssireum family. In the past, he was known as a genius like ssireum wrestler, but not anymore. He is thinking about retiring from the sport altogether. One day, Baek Doo meets his childhood friend Oh Yoo Kyung and has a turning point in his ssireum life. Yoo Kyung and Baek Doo grew up together in Geosan County. She begins to work as a leader of the management team for the ssireum team, which is on the verge of disbanding.

Meanwhile, they have people around them like Min Hyun Wook, who suddenly appears at Geosan County and adjusts well to life here, and Joo Mi Ran, who is a mysterious cafe owner. There's also the new coach, Kwak Jin Soo, of the ssireum team and Cho Seok Hee, who is Baek Doo’s best friend and works as a police constable.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

"Sick Cat" Chen Ting, a freshman at Xicheng Technical School, secretly changes his major from cooking to auto-repairing in order to resist his father's harsh discipline. He thus becomes acquainted with a group of friends, including "Page Boy Hao," a junior who is keen to create avant-garde fashion, and "Shark Zhen," a locomotive girl who is eager to go to Hong Kong to pursue her dream. Seven small partners hand in hand with each other to face difficulties of growth, eventually help "Shark Zhen" achieve distant dreams, and also let "Sick Cat" find his own ideals step by step and grow into a truly responsible teenager.

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Episodes: 24

Aired On: Friday

Passionate dessert chef Shin runs a bakery and works hard to achieve his goal. One day, a boy named Peach joins the team.

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Episodes: 6

Throughout twelve stories. this series follows eleven couples, delving into friendship and romance.

Episodes: 24

Tells the story of Chen Shuo, who is still clinging to his dreams in the face of a dilemma, and accidentally meets Ding Lei in his life. In the face of several obstacles and difficulties, can they turn the tide and fight back against the problems of life?

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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

Chom is a hi-so girl who just returned from studying abroad and is being forced by her mother to marry someone of her mother's choosing. Chom doesn’t want to and wants to be able to choose for herself who she will marry. She meets a country bumpkin named Nin and they enter into a fake marriage to prevent Chom’s mother from making her marry someone else. Will this fake marriage between a hi-so girl and a country bumpkin turn into real love? And will Chom's mother finally accept Nin for her daughter?

Three young men face the university entrance exams upon which their economic and social fates depend. Kim Tae Moo is a comic book artist whose art is plagiarized even as he's humiliated at school, at work, and then in the army. Cho Se In, plagued by a drunken father, wants to be a hairdresser and is the victim of gay bashing and chicken hawks. The overweight, phlegmatic, and cowardly Kong Seung Ho lives to eat and watch videos. The film dramatizes their friendship, their family lives, and the crushing reality of the limited opportunities Korean society offers them.

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Episodes: 58

Duration: 53 min.

Aired On: Monday

Ratings: 7.7

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).

Jin Xia, a 27-year-old assistant to a wedding dress designer, took out a loan to buy an old seaside house. She thought her happy life of owning a house would begin, but Jin Xia soon discovered that the house was actually "haunted"! It turns out that there is a young man living in seclusion in the ancient house whose behavior and abilities are like a ghost. This suspected "ghost" boy has no memory and cannot leave the ancient house, and he seems to be inextricably linked to Jin Xia. In order to find the reason for their bond, the two started a blushing and heart-pounding "hidden husband in a golden house" cohabitation life.

(Source: Baidu)

Episodes: 24

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Aired On: Friday

The movie revolves around the protagonist of the story, Japanese rock musician Miyavi, portraying himself and his adventures when he goes back 20 years in time.

Duration: 1 hr. 6 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Has the world suddenly split into four? Keiwa Sakurai, Neon Kurama, Michinaga Azuma, and Tsumuri are flung into different worlds. And for some reason, a different Ace exists in each of the four worlds. The cause seems to be from the "World Doomsday Game" started by the staff from the future. In light of this crisis, the mysterious X-Geats appears. Just what will happen to Ace and his friends?

(Source: kamenrider.wikia.com)

Duration: 60 min.

Do Do Hee is the successor of the Future Group. She has an arrogant and cool-headed personality, who doesn’t trust in anyone. She is cynical about love. Do Do Hee gets involved with a demon named Jung Koo Won and makes a contract marriage with him. She faces big changes in her life.

Jung Koo Won is a demon. He can live for eternity by making dangerous, but sweet deals with humans who endure hellish lives. He looks down upon humans and he has prowled over this world like an apex predator for 200 years. He gets involved with Do Do Hee and somehow loses his power all of a sudden. He then enters into a contract marriage with her. To prevent his own extinction, he must protect Do Do Hee who has taken all of his power. Their relationship develops romantically.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Friday, Saturday

Cheon Sang Hyuk is a charismatic fairy, who easily makes woman fall in love with him. 500 years ago, his wings were burned. To restore his wings, he went through 27 metamorphoses. On his 28th time, he gets involved with Oh Baek Ryun.

Baek Ryun is a veterinarian and she works at an animal clinic. She is a pretty woman. She has had many men fall in love with her because of her attractiveness. Whenever these men got into a romantic relationship with her, they always had a near-death experience and would then runaway from her. Because of the bad luck, Baek Ryun is not dating anyone, but she badly wants to meet a man of fate.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 16

Entertainers Bakarhythm and Wakabayashi Masayasu live on the same floor of an apartment building in Tokyo. One day, the two of them discover that Nikaido Fumi lives in this building. She joins their group before they even realize it and the trio become close friends who solve one another's worries and problems.

Set 2 years after Sangenya Machi and Yashiro Dai left Teiko Real Estate's Shinjuku office.

The real estate office has seen a steep decline in business due to competition. Niwano Seiji visits Sangenya Machi for help, but he is surprised to see her holding a baby.

The next day, Sangenya appears at Teiko Real Estate and deals with customers who are having problems.

A year after parting, a successful Woong and Min-chae meet again! They don't have money, but they stick together all the time and get ready to be married.

The tteokbokki store that the 3 'Oppas' have opened!

The 3 oppa owners that will serve a plate of tteokbokki, back to the times where people were still hyping and talking about it.

The oppas will serve a plate of spicy, sweet tteokbokki that has many stories captured within it, will they be able to capture people's attention and let this store become a 'sparrow mill', not letting it be easily passed by?

The one-hundred-year-old Fujiya Inn stands in the quiet region of Kyoto. Mikoto is standing at the back of the building in front of the Kibune river when she is called back to work. But two minutes later, she finds herself back at the river again. The whole inn seems to be stuck in a time loop!

(Source: TMDb)

Duration: 1 hr. 26 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

Hinatazaka de Aimashou is a Japanese variety show starring Hinatazaka46 and is hosted by Japanese comedy duo Audrey. Originally it was Hiragana Oshi but due to Hiragana Keyakizaka46 becoming Hinatazaka46, the program has now been renamed.

Song Zhu, the third young miss of the Song family, rebels against arranged marriages in pursuit of true love. She is the odd one out in a family of intellectuals. Meanwhile, the black-bellied Xiao Yu hides his identity to study at the academy. Song Zhu and Xiao Yu develop an immediate dislike for each other upon meeting that eventually blossoms into a sweet romance.

The Song family is well-known for producing a long line of scholars. There is no one in their family who isn't a literary prodigy except for the third daughter Song Zhu. Aside from being a pretty face, she has not inherited any of her parents' good qualities. The more it seems to be the case, the less Song Zhu seems to care about learning. Wanting to escape from everyone's shadow, Song Zhu has been trying to get herself married, that is, until she met "the womanizer" Xiao Yu who has completely disrupted her plans.

Xiao Yu is the bane to Song Zhu's existence. As long as he is around, there will be disaster. However, Song Zhu is not the type who is willing to lose, so the two always end up fighting like there's no tomorrow. The whole academy is in disarray because of them, yet they are also the ones who have rekindled the spirit of competition. Academy life in that era is the same as campuses now full of vitality and interesting stories. Song Zhu rallies her group of friends to chase for their own happiness.

(Source: iQiyi)

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Xie Jing Heng Xiang

Episodes: 36

Duration: 45 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

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

National Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2006. In January 2007, the theatre begins its 51st year with “Asakusa Fukumaru Inn,” a new drama where every episode is self-inclusive, set in an old-line inn in Asakusa. Fukumaru Daikichi, the owner of Fukumaru Inn is played by Nishida Toshiyuki. The inn has been in business for over 60 years, and Daikichi is its third owner. Known as “nosy Dai-san” from people of Asakusa, Daikichi pries into the affairs of others and ends up making matters worse. As social conditions change, his inn business faces difficult situation, but he cannot help but stop being nosy. In each episode, various guest actors/actresses appear to take the key role sometimes as a guest to the inn or as a someone Daikichi meets in the neighborhood area. Exchanges between guest actors/actresses and Dakichi will definitely make the viewers cry and laugh in all episodes.

A woman's life all depends on her looks. So what happens if she's born ugly? This story is about a girl, nowhere near attractive, who was born where ugliness runs in the family. This pitiful girl, who has no luck with men, thanks to her "not so pretty" looks, turned to her last resort: a face lift. She travels all the way to the Mediterranean to transform into a living beauty. Now she can finally get her hands on love and happiness. After returning to Japan, she starts a glamorous life as a fashion model: something she had always longed for. Still, day after day, she is obsessed with the feeling that her big secret may come to light. The face lift was able to change her face, but not her "ugly personality." She's an artificial beauty: vulnerable, fragile, and struggling for love. Will she manage to get the love of her life?

Taka, a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his brother, Mune. Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl along the way, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet shop owners.

(Source: IMDb)

Duration: 1 hr. 28 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

It is hosted by the comedy duo Chocolate Planet

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.

"G-Men" follows the story of Shouta Kadomatsu, who transfers to an all boys school in hopes of finding a girlfriend, as the school is surrounded by four all-girls schools. A rumor at his school states that there is a 120% of losing your virginity before graduation, however, Shouta finds himself in class G, which is the lowest ranked class in the entire school, and is filled with delinquents, nerds and losers - the types of guys girls aren't interested in.

(Source: anilist)

Adapted from the manga series "G Men" (Gメン) by Ozawa Toshio (小沢としお).

Duration: 2 hr. 0 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

Han Hae Na is a single high school teacher with a family secret. Due to an ancestor's fault, Han Hae Na's family has been cursed for generations. When someone of her family kisses anyone, they turn into a dog at midnight for six hours. Afterwards, they revert back to their normal appearance. This transformation repeats itself every night until that person, in their dog appearance, kisses the same person. Whenever Han Hae Na meets a man for a potential romantic relationship, she asks that person to not kiss her. This usually leads the men to leave her.

Drunk one night, Han Hae Na accidentally kisses Jin Seo Won, a teacher at the same high school, though they aren't even close as colleagues. Han Hae Na soon panics and persistently approaches Seo Won for a chance at another kiss. However, Jin Seo Won has a fear of dogs.

(Source: Asianwiki)

Adapted from the webtoon "A Good Day to Be a Dog" (오늘도 사랑스럽개) by Lee Hey (이혜).

Episodes: 14

A series which follows the reality of rural society. It tells the story about the loveliness Thai native football team and the problem in the village and the culture of the Northeast part of Thailand.

Tells the story of a family with super powers.

With a playful, fitting rhyme with the title track of D-2, Daechwita; this talk-show format provides Min Yoon Gi, as the main host, to engage in open dialogue with guests from a range of professions while drinking. He will utilize his conversational talents to highlight the attractions of his visitors by drawing on his understanding of a variety of topics, including music.