Asian Drama

Set in the year 712 AD during the reign of Emperor Rui Zong of the Tang Dynasty, the grandeur of the Tang Dynasty continues, but beneath the prosperity, hidden dangers lurk, and a storm is brewing. Various forces are on the move, triggering frequent mysterious incidents among the common people. What kind of supernatural mysteries will Lu Ling Feng and Su Wu Ming, the deputy minister of the Grand Court of Justice and the registrar of Qianling, encounter on their perilous journey? The road to the west is unpredictable.

(Source: iQIYI)

Adapted from the novel "Tang Shan Gui Shi Lu 2: Chang An Gui Ji" (唐朝诡事录2：长安鬼迹) by Wei Feng Hua (魏风华).

Tags: Detective Fiction, Detective Male Lead, Tang Dynasty, Investigation, Historical Fiction, Strong Male Lead, Adapted From A Novel, Supernatural, Fantasy, Martial Arts (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 40

Duration: 50 min.

Country: China

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

Aired: Jul 18, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

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Midnight Horror Story returns with its fourth season, with new storytellers, Kim Ho Young and Ji Ye Eun joining the cast. Finding the best ghost storyteller who can satisfy 44 audiences, also known as Dark Spirits where the winner gets to win a prize money of $444,444!

Episodes: 10

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min

Aired On: Sunday

Aired: Jun 23, 2024

Episodes: 18

Aired On: Saturday, Sunday

Content Rating: G - All Ages

A cash-strapped young man, a gifted realtor and a pair of fake exorcists form an unlikely squad to sell houses haunted by spirits.

A group of students test out an augmented reality horror game at a university rumored to be haunted, releasing something sinister - and very real.

Duration: 1 hr. 41 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

The never-ending monsterization crisis. Hyeon Su, consumed by monsters, tries to regain his human self. Nam Sang Won, who entered Pyeon Sang Uk's body, visits the survivors' stadium with a group of people to achieve his goal. And unlike the previous rules, they put forward an unconventional condition to provide convenience to those with symptoms. Stadiums are no longer safe spaces, and people are confused. Meanwhile, Eun Hyeok, who was reborn from the cocoon, appears in a new form... Season 3, which will mark the finale of the desperate struggle of those who are faced with a choice between the border between monsters and humans.

(Source: Korean =Netflix Korea)

Adapted from the webtoon “Sweet Home” (스위트홈) by Kim Carnby (김칸비) and Hwang Young Chan (황영찬).

Episodes: 8

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Airs On: Friday

Ryosei Konishi, Mika Hijii, Ray Fujita, Yasue Sato, Hironobu Kageyama, and Yukijirō Hotaru reprise their roles from the original television series. Shouma Yamamoto reprises his role from the Beast of the Midnight Sun special. Mary Matsuyama and Masahiro Kuranuki reprise their roles from the Red Requiem film. Newcomers to the series include Ozuno Nakamura and Yuriko Hishimi.

Episodes: 24

Aired On: Friday

Duration: 25 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

A cruel fate mystery series with 3 stories revolving around someone finding a tarot card and becoming trapped in a curse due to their choice.

"Santa’s Visit" - Ji Woo is a working mom who raises her daughter alone. While she is working, some strange and eerie things happen to her daughter, who is left alone at home.

"Please Throw Away" - Dong In is a veteran delivery rider. Something bizarre things happen to him.

"Going Home" - Kyeong Rae gets in a taxi hurriedly in the middle of the night and he is engulfed in fear and anxiety.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Duration: 1 hr. 34 min.

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Ratings: 6.9

Wo Zai Dong Bei Zuo Bai Shi Di Na Xie Nian (2024)

A broadcasting station employee discovers a lost cassette recording gathering dust in a storage area and brings it to a radio show hosted by an idol member. On the tape, there is a faint humming sound of a girl.

Concerned about a missing group member, the idol's manager employs a private investigator to find him within three days, just in time for a big concert. The investigator interviews each individual in the hopes of solving the mystery.

As the inquiry proceeds, however, the idol members succumb to a terrible curse, falling to terror one by one. As the detective examines the identity of the mystery voice on the recording, it becomes clear that the cursed cassette tape holds the answer to their problem.

(Source: Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival; Edited by Krystale Mitaesa)

One young female and one middle-aged male police officers head to a house after a neighbor reported a stench coming out of it. Once inside, they encounter a world beyond their imagination.

Ayaka lives with roommates. One day, she is caught in the rain while waiting for her boyfriend when she happens upon an umbrella that had been thrown away. She picks it up but, after that, she is nowhere to be found.

A young woman’s visit to her grandparents’ home leads to the discovery of what’s brought them happiness, a revelation that will lead her to question her choices, sanity and reality itself.

A young nursing school student visits her grandparents in the countryside. They enjoy a reunion while she feels increasingly uncomfortable. There is something in the grandparents' house. One day, she finds out the truth that turns her "happy" daily life into horror.

A young man lives in an apartment by himself. One day, strange things begin to happen to his closet.

After suffering from serial paranormal events, a wealthy family living in LA summons a young rising shaman duo Hwa Rim and Bong Gil to save the newborn of the family. Once they arrive, Hwa Rim senses a dark shadow of their ancestor has latched on the family in a so-called 'Grave Calling'.

In order to exhume the grave and relieve the ancestor, Hwa Rim seeks help from top-notch geomancer Sang Deok and mortician Yeong Geun. To their dismay, the four find the grave at a shady location in a remote village in Korea. Unaware of the consequences, the exhumation is carried out, unleashing a malevolent force buried underneath.

(Source: showbox.co.kr)

Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

A fantasy story about a man who accidentally gets drawn into a fictional world inside of a horror novel.

(Source: Korean = Naver)

Episodes: 1

Airs On: Saturday

Matsuoka is a teacher at a culinary school. One day, a student, Tashiro, says something strange during the lesson: “There’s a noise, it’s like a chime. Someone is sending me a message.” The people running the school warn him that Tashiro’s a little odd, but Matsuoka isn’t bothered by it at all and continues treating him normally. However, on another day, Tashiro says, “Half of my brain has been replaced with a machine,” and takes drastic action to prove it. Some days after the incident with Tashiro, Matsuoka is teaching a female student, Akemi. Matsuoka continues teaching unenthusiastically but when she complains that a whole chicken leaves her feeling uncomfortable, something incomprehensible overtakes him. Both at the school and at home, a strange dread begins to undulate in his ordinary existence…

(Source: roadstead.io)

Duration: 45 min.

Ratings: 6.6

Post-war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.

(Source: IMDb)

When the world is hit with a naturally occuring virus that spreads among all living things, humans begin to turn into insatiable zombies. In a blink, the world as we know it collapses. Furthermore, the few remaining survivors are unable to use the available food resources. They therefore develop a new crop to support themselves. Survivors depend on one profession, their only hope; someone in this profession must brave the dangers to send and recieve food and packages of necessities. These people are called Riders.

Si Young has been chosen to play the lead role in an experimental art film centered around her dance major. Along with her college friend Chae Yoon, they perform geometric dance routines as part of a shamanic ceremony as directed by the film's director. However, their world is turned upside down when a production team member suddenly falls from the roof, but their seemingly lifeless body begins to move and come to life.

(Source: ktalpha.kr)

Duration: 1 hr. 40 min.

When a bloodthirsty spirit possesses a young girl in a remote village, her older brother leads the charge to banish it before she's consumed by evil.

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

Chiu and his best friend, Hung, invoke a saucer spirit (a Chinese equivalent of the Ouija board) in an attempt to find out the questions of an upcoming assessment, but they are interrupted halfway through the process and do not finish it properly. They desperately try to finish the process at Chiu's home but supernatural events take place, resulting in the death of Chiu's parents. Eighteen years later, Chiu, who has been learning the art of exorcism from a master after the tragedy, meets Hung again. Hung has been suffering from severe PTSD in the last eighteen years. As Chiu tries to help his best friend overcome his condition, supernatural happenings take place, and they realize the the problem that started eighteen years ago may not have ended.

"She has died for crimes she did not commit, and so now she holds a grudge and waits for revenge. Waiting in this house, the slave house."

The house that belongs to Phraya Thammanurak, is well known as a haunted house. Until one day, when the ghost who was detained in the house is released. Now she will take revenge for herself and her child. And the true evil form of the actual perpetrator will be revealed.

(Source: thaidramatic_update on Instagram)

Adapted from the novel "Ruean That" (เรือนทาส) by Yananthorn (ญนันธร).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 1 hr. 5 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Aired On: Wednesday, Thursday

Dogai Ryuga, the Golden Knight Garo, has regained his golden glow and destroyed the evil plots of Horror. An encounter with a mysterious knight clad in “steel” leads Ryuga to the next test. Now, the story that approaches the origin of the protector begins!

(Source: Japanese = garo-project.jp)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 23 min.

Aired On: Thursday

Set during the annual Hungry Ghost Festival, "Hungry Souls: From Hell, with Love" tells the tale of Bao, a catering chef with the ability to see spirits. Having been traumatised by hungry souls as a child, Bao has learnt to avoid ghosts or risk being besieged by their endless requests or menacing threats. During this year’s festival, Bao finds himself followed by the enigmatic and beautiful female spirit, Soo Lian. Having been a lost spirit for nearly 50 years, she has no recollections of her living memories or her untimely death. All that remains is her heart’s aching for a reunion with her lover, Hock. Upon realising that Bao could see her, Soo Lian implores him for his help. Bao’s attempts to ward her off backfire as she learns that his cooking seems to unlock the hidden mysteries behind her life and tragic death. Her relentless disturbance leaves a helpless Bao with no choice but to be her reluctant associate. What ensues is a rhapsodic, emotional, and treacherous entanglement, as the duo overcome their differences to unravel past lives and confront their destinies, all whilst coming to terms with their budding romance.

After the death of many of their friends, as well as their separation from Hibiki, Asuha, Kanae, Kashuu, Kaito and Yura enter Utopia, the city of humanity's last hope. They reach one of the two towers, where politicians gather, striving to restore the former civilization by establishing law and order. There, what the survivors witness is an absolute upper and lower world divided by the value of human life. In a world far removed from the utopia, Asuha, Kanae, and the others, torn apart between the "Tower" and the "Under," find themselves entangled in the final battle over Utopia. Eventually, they reunite, but this time as adverseries.

Ji Yeon is a beautiful university student, majoring in music. She is dating Dong Seok, but Dong Seok’s parents want him to study abroad. The day before he is scheduled to leave South Korea to study abroad, he prepares a proposal event for Ji Yeon. Ji Yeon does not appear at the event.

Meanwhile, a rumor exists about the old apartment building where Ji Yeon lives. The rumor is that a ghost appears in the apartment building.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Duration: 1 hr. 33 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

A new concept horror IP cross project that turns six selected works out of 19 serial webtoons of the same name (Tastes of Horror) into movies. "DingDong Challenge: The reason why you shouldn't do dance challenge carelessly", "Four Legged Beast: Story of meeting a doppelganger with broken neck", "Jackpot: what happened when I took a taxi nearby", "The Residents-Only Gym: A woman who appears after 10 PM", "Rehabilitation: Cruel clinical trials currenly underway in the lab", and "Gluttony: The strange things that happened during a live broadcast."

Cheng Nian Yi followed Li Si Ze to visit Li Si Ze's hometown of Yin and Yang Town. The two encountered ghosts and heresies in Yin and Yang Town, and behind each bizarre incident was actually the elusive and treacherous human heart. When the truth was revealed layer by layer, Cheng Nian Yi and Li Si Ze discovered that Yin Yang Town shrouded in rumours and heresies of ghosts and gods, hid a greater secret. After many obstacles, the two teamed up to catch the murderer and demolish the Ghost Mother Temple. Thus life in Yin Yang Town's peace and quiet were restored.

(Source: flixflop.com)

Episodes: 24

Duration: 10 min.

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