Asian Drama

Facing an unacceptable reality, a teacher is trying to reclaim relationships with his family, students and former friends. Reassessing his past, he contemplates how to go on with his life.

An asteroid is on course to crash into Earth in 200 days and destroy the planet. The world soon learns of the news and falls into confusion.

Jin Se Kyung works as a middle-school teacher in Woongchun City. She learns about the impending end of the world. She decides to quit her job and do volunteer work at a child and youth division in city hall. She struggles to save children in danger. Her boyfriend of many years is Ha Yoon Sang. He currently works as a researcher at a biotechnology research institute in the United States. After news of the end of the world is released, he flies back to South Korea to be with Jin Se Kyung.

Woo Sung Jae is an assistant priest at a Catholic Church. The presiding priest at the church ran away after news broke out about the approaching asteroid. Woo Sung Jae now takes care of the parishioners at the church. Kang In A is a commander of a combat support battalion. She goes around Woongchun City, which has been ruined, to provide supplies, transport and security.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the novel "Shumatsu no Furu" (終末のフール / ) by Kotaro Isaka (伊坂 幸太郎).

Episodes: 12

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Cinematography: Son Won Ho [손원호]

Saeba Ryo is a "sweeper" in the city of Tokyo. He works as a trouble shooter, cleaning the streets of vermin, and helping out desperate people. Sometimes he's a bodyguard, sometimes he's an assassin, whatever Ryo does he does it well. In fact, his only flaw is his hormones - he loves the ladies and sometimes turns into an idiot when he's near them. Thankfully he's got people like his partner Kaori Makimura to keep him in check.

(Source: Mangaupdates)

Adapted from the manga series "City Hunter" (シティーハンター) by Hojo Tsukasa (北条司).

Duration: 1 hr. 42 min.

Ratings: 8.1

Mai Cheng Huan, a post-95 girl born into an ordinary family in Shanghai, proposed marriage to her boyfriend, Xin Jia Liang, at the urging of her mother, Liu Wan Yu. However, the favorable economic conditions of the Xin family made this originally equal emotional relationship unbalanced.

At the same time, Mai's mother's excessive intervention in her daughter's life-long events accelerated the breakup between Mai Cheng Huan and Xin Jia Liang. Between being filial to her parents and being loyal to herself, Mai Cheng Huan struggled to find a way. She gradually broke away from her mother's strong care and became more focused and enterprising in her work.

Mai Cheng Huan's transformation has been recognized by her step-grandmother, and she entrusts her with the most important task of hotel management. Yao Zhi Ming, the step-grandmother's grandson and a professional hotel manager, gradually understands and agrees with Mai Cheng Huan during cooperation with her, and the two become working partners and go hand in hand.

But in real life, Yao Zhi Ming was surrounded by the true feelings of the Mai family, and his relationship with Mai Cheng Huan gradually heated up. From "Cheng Huan's knees" to "self-achievement", Mai Cheng Huan has embarked on an extraordinary growth path that belongs to her alone.

(Source: Chinese = Baidu)

Adapted from the novel "Stories of Mai Chenghuan" (承欢记) by Yi Shu (亦舒).

Episodes: 38

Duration: 45 min.

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

Gao brothers because of different values, not only the achievements of high and low legislation, even the education of children, personality and character is also very different. The previous generation of the previous generation of grievances, the next generation of the pursuit of the next generation of vision; in the complex life on the road, everyone is doing business, looking for their own happiness issues.

A family drama is born that depicts the youth of the heroine, who dreamed of working at an expo with the desire to connect with people all over the world, and her family, with a heartwarming touch.

It tells the story of the cold company President Lu Chen Yang, who is a cruel revenge machine full of calculations to make his opponent pay the price. He finally meets his opponent, the daughter of a desperate rich family, Qianjin Bu Ran. When a hunter begins to fall in love with his prey, all the hatred in his heart turns soft.

In his 40s, the stuntman Woo-seok wishes to go back to the prime of his life in 1997, before a facial scar ended his acting dreams. One day, he purchases five talismans from an unknown monk, hoping to change his life. However, during a film shoot, a car accident transports him back to his high school days in 1997. Now living as the high school student, he embarks on a project to revamp his past life, which was filled with a troublesome father, son, and husband.

Zhen Ren is a surgeon who succeeded in achieving his father's dying wish. With the help of ER director Pan, he joined Haicheng Hospital and took steps forward to save a patient during a Whipple procedure. Zheng Ren devoted everything to being a doctor, and his skills caught the attention of genius doctor Su Yun, who began to study Zheng Ren's methods. Su Yun comes to accept and admire Zheng Ren as a colleague after witnessing his selflessness when they both signed up for the frontline rescue team after an earthquake. In order to treat a case of conjoined twins with arrhythmia, Zheng Ren and Su Yun join hands to form a team formed by a group of medical professionals that include equipment nurse Xie Yiren, attending physician Lin Yuan (Wei Wei), consulting physician Chang Yue, and German professor Rudolph.

Lai Min and Ding Yi Zhou, two young people from Liuzhou, Guangxi, once attended elementary school together. Originally, their lives never intersected but because of Lai Min’s hereditary family disease, the two met again and fell in love. As Lai Min’s illness gradually worsens, she draws up a wishlist of places throughout China that she would like to visit. Ding Yi Zhou decides to help fulfill Lai Min's wish and together they embark on a trip across China.

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Episodes: 16

Duration: 13 min.

Phlengrak is the cherished son of the Phleng Phin Isan Lamsing mor lam troupe. Fate leads him to fall for Janphen, the daughter of the likay troupe Phet Jaras Fah's owner. He's faced with a serious obstacle, however, because Janphen's father Thuaithep loathes mor lam due to his painful history with mor lam singer Kesorn. As a result, he's completely forbidden everyone in the likay troupe from getting involved with mor lam artists.

(Source: Thai = TrueID)

Episodes: 15

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

When Khem, the Phu Lang Ka National Park staff, realizes the truth about her background with a vital mission at hand, she must return to gather all nine Maneenopparats.

Khlao a poor farmer with a lot of debt falls in love with a young woman from a rich family named Thong Kwao but their relationship is not approved by Thong Kwao's parents because Khlao is poor.

Thong Kwao was sent to Bangkok by her parents, so Thong Kwao could get a man who really matched her parents' wishes. Khlao also has many women who want to get his love and this creates many misunderstandings that can separate the love between Khlao and Thong Kwao.

(Source: Indonesian = overseasidol.com || Translation = jan at MyDramaList)

Episodes: 13

Duration: 44 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Airs On: Friday

The kind and tolerant grandmother reunites with her granddaughter, who went missing 12 years ago in an accident. From being strangers, they gradually become close, and during their time together, the secrets they carry are slowly revealed. In the end, the grandmother saves the granddaughter, who had lost hope in life.

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

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Episodes: 15

Duration: 6 min.

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

~~ Adapted from the web novel "Yi Tai San Bao: Zong Cai Die Di Zhui Qi Pao" (一胎三宝: 总裁爹地追妻跑) by Zi Su (紫苏).

A story about dance and following dreams. Dindaen is a former dance champion now working as a volunteer teacher. Nai is a young dancer who sees him as a hero, and Focus is a confident young woman whose love of dancing led her to become an idol. They used to dance together as kids.

Jung-Hyun Hwang is a lecturer in Tourism Management Faculty at the local University located in the capital. He is a Korean who speaks Bahasa Melayu. Despite his good look and admire by many students at the campus, he only set his eyes for one student, a Malay girl named Sara. And when Sara was assigned to do a project on Korea, Hyun insist on helping her so that they can spend time together. Sara was very resistant in the beginning but she slowly fell in love during one of their campus trip. Nevertheless, a relationship between a student and a lecturer is never easy. In the end, Hyun embraced Islam and took the new name Daniel Abdullah. Going through his new journey with Sara, the one he loves. But first he must conquer 2 things : FASTING and CIRCUMCISION.

A psychological thriller centered on Sakai Yoichi, a freelance video director, and Mitsumi Kei, a piano teacher who moonlights as a serial killer. When Yoichi, who is stuck in his current situation doing small jobs to make ends meet, returns to his office, there's a package waiting for him. Inside is a human finger, and the message for Yoichi to get in touch if he's interested to "document his activities." Yoichi was going to call the police, but after considering, he decides instead to contact the sender. The person he meets at the designated house is none other than pianist Mitsumi Kei. This encounter leads Yoichi to continue documenting the murders, but what awaits him as a result of this decision... remains to be seen.

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house offering city residents a comfortable "escape" to nature.

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Episodes: 10

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Airs On: Wednesday

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Episodes: 28

Duration: 25 min.

Business genius Xu Yunlong is highly regarded within the group, arousing intense jealousy from Zhang Feng, the son of the chairman. For a smooth succession to power, Zhang Feng seduces Xu Yunlong's wife to cheat on Xu. Then, they set up a scheme to ruin Xu's reputation together and subject him to various torments before tossing him into the river. However, justice has long arms, which allows Xu to get away with it by a fluke. From then on, he adopts the alias "Wu Ergou" and starts from scratch as the poor son-in-law of a noodle shop's owner. With determination and resilience, he embarks on a journey of entrepreneurial success, vowing to defeat Zhang Feng and make a comeback in the business world!

Eun Soo Hyun is a psychology professor and a famous writer, but her life has completely changed. Her young son dies unjustly. Making things worse, the person responsible for her son’s death isn’t punished by the law. Eun Soo Hyun loses hope in this world. She decides to punish the person responsible for her son’s death by herself. Her life is still in pain and despair. Somehow, Eun Soo Hyun gets involved with other people who suffer from pain similar to hers and solves their mysterious cases. They slowly get healed in the process.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 14

Airs On: Friday, Saturday

He’s well aware of my illness, yet he endures it. He consistently takes great care of me, but I find myself continually digging up his past to hurt him. The more he remains silent, the worse my condition becomes. At times, I’ve even told him I wanted to harm myself just to instill fear in him. I resist seeking treatment because I believe that by remaining in this state, he will stay with me, never leaving my side. That’s why I persist in behaving in ways that cause him worry. I understand the situation, but I still can’t fathom why I act this way.

(Source: Viu)

Episodes: 4

Duration: 47 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

Aired On: Friday

Ratings: 7.7

At her dad’s funeral, a 14-year-old girl Hwang Kyung Eon meets her uncle Jae Min, a complete stranger to her until then. Jae Min, a callow swindler, bilks his niece out of her father’s insurance money. Learning what her uncle did, Kyung Eon blindsides him with his secret and demands her money back, but Jae Min unashamedly refuses. To get her money back, Kyung Eon agrees to play Jae Min’s daughter in his next scam, managing to trick and earn the trust of a pharmacist named Jum Hee. As the scheme ripens, Kyung Eon grows uneasy, longing to have the family she never had. Slowly, the three begin to care about each other in this fake relationship.

An investment competition, jointly organised by an investment platform and investment sage Gordon, offers an attractive cash prize and the chance to work with Gordon. It includes the following participants: Jayden, who sees the investment world as an exciting playground and dreams of being the next generation investment sage; Billy, who is calm, sensible and good at data analysis, but has yet to get a chance to showcase his talent; C Ling, a poor girl who excels in studies, she is also a fast learner and highly adaptable; Au Yeung, a smooth and slick person with a large social network and inside information; Ming, a foolish rich kid with advantages due to his family background. Only the strongest will survive the game. Sometimes participants need to work as a team. Other times they need to fight against one another. While making the best use of their strengths, they also expose their weaknesses. As they get to know one another, the line between friend and foe blurs. Investment is all about rewards and risks, desire and fear. In a game that tests friendship and one's bottom line, who will be the final winner?

The Hairpin of the Rogue (2023)