Asian Drama

A Joseon-era version of a romantic comedy about a crown prince who is kidnapped by a woman who is set to become his wife. While on the run for their lives, romance blossoms between the two.

Episodes: 20

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

Many years ago, dressed in a suit, Zhou Ke broke into a gang den alone and rescued his brother Ba Nuo, but was eventually arrested and imprisoned. Fast forward a few years, Zhou Ke is released from prison and lives a carefree life in the city under the pseudonym Li Fei. However, the undercurrents in the calm streets are surging, and the new wave of evil is even more horrific. This time, where should Zhou Ke go?

(Source: iQIYI)

Duration: 1 hr. 40 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

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).

Lee Joon Sung, Song Jae Hyo, and Park Min Woo graduated from high school together and are now in their twenties. Joon Sung was a rising soccer star during high school, but his dreams were shattered. After losing his way for a while, he decides to get his life back together. Jae Hyo, who went by the name Lee Jun Sung in high school, is currently attending medical school. Min Woo is the only son of a wealthy family.

The three friends meet up for drinks, and Jae Hyo, who is facing a personal crisis, enlists the help of Jun Sung and Min Woo. To avoid trouble for himself, he impulsively instigates a fake kidnapping of Min Woo with the goal of getting a billion won. After the kidnapping is staged, though, things take an unexpected turn, and the ensuing complications lead all three of them down a dark and turbulent path.

Adapted from the webtoon "Deal" (거래), that won the Excellence Award at the 2020 NAVER webtoon and webnovel competition.

Episodes: 8

Kim Myung Joon is a poor man with a warm heart. He desperately needs money to pay for his sick daughter's operation. His ex-wife suggests he kidnap a child with rich parents. Kim Myung Joon is desperate enough to accept her idea.

While on his way to kidnap Choi Ro Hee, Kim Myung Joon has an accident, hitting a young girl. The victim is none other than Choi Ro Hee, who has lost her memory.

Pretending to be her father, Kim Myung Joon brings Choi Ro Hee to his home from the hospital. Whenever he contacts Choi Ro Hee’s parents for the ransom money, his calls remain unanswered. Deciding to investigate, he drives to their house, only to witness their dead bodies being carried out on stretchers.

Making matters worse, Choi Ro Hee has now uncovered his web of lies, including his not being her father.

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Adapted from the novel "Yoogweui Nal" by Jung Hae Yeon.

Episodes: 12

“Limit” is a suspenseful thriller about a cop that goes undercover to hunt down the criminal behind a horrific kidnapping case. Lee Jung Hyun will be starring as So Eun, the police officer who gets involved in the case by taking the place of the kidnapping victim’s parents. As she fights to chase down the criminal, she finds herself caught up in tense, high-stakes mind games with the kidnapper.

Moon Jung Hee will be playing the role of Hye Jin, a character who has a connection to the kidnapping case, while Jin Seo Yeon will be playing Yeon Joo, a character who puts herself in danger in order to find the kidnapped child.

Choi Duk Moon will be taking on the role of Sung Chan, a detective who works together with So Eun to solve the case, while Park Myung Hoon will be playing Joon Yong, another character with a connection to the incident.

(Source: Soompi)

Adapted from the novel "Kiroi Jou" by Nozawa Hisashi (野沢尚).

Duration: 1 hr. 28 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

After stumbling on a device that can make other people disappear, a man and woman entangled in an affair devise a plan to start a new life together.

(Source: Netflix)

Episodes: 8

Duration: 45 min.

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Aired On: Wednesday

Ratings: 7.6

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An extremist Taliban group takes a group of Korean tourists hostage in Afghanistan. The Korean government dispatches Jae Ho, known as one of Korea’s most skilled diplomats, to handle the situation. Once he arrives, he asks for the Afghan government’s cooperation and uses every means possible to free the hostages. However, Jae Ho’s efforts go in vain. Due to his failure, he’s forced to work with Dae Sik, a special agent who is an expert on the Middle East. As they begin making their move to get to the Taliban, the first hostage death occurs. With nowhere else to turn, the two become unlikely allies in a race against time to save the rest of the hostages.

Based on the true events of the Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan.

Okuyama Keisuke is a successful lawyer with a dark past. He suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder due to abuse and betrayal as a young boy. One day, Keisuke is asked to defend his distant relative and psychopath “friend”, Ando Tatsuya, who is a suspect in a murder case. Tatsuya had robbed him of his own parents and happiness one after another. After that, he was repeatedly mistreated by Tatsuya’s family who adopted him. Keisuke takes a risky gamble to bury Tatsuya from society. Their reunion is the start of a battle with a new nightmare.

After passing the tunnel, the roundup comes!

Four years after the operation to wipe out Garibong-dong, monster detective Ma Seok Do and Geumcheonseo's strong team will directly carry out a strong mission.

Narusawa Haruto is the president of a gaming company while his wife Michiru is a SNS influencer. When their daughter is kidnapped, the couple use their own ways to save her without depending on the police.

It tells the story of a mother’s desperation to locate her child when the abductor dies before her child can be located. With time running out, the child’s mother seeks the assistance of a spiritual medium.

At the Keyakidai High School, which there'll be a graduation ceremony in three days, have encountered a kidnapping incident in which their popular English teacher, Risako Mizuguchi, has been abducted. Yoshiki Kurokawa receives a challenge letter from an unknown sender. The letter says "Solve the mystery of the kidnapping. Only you can understand the truth."

The same challenge was received by Junpei Ogita, who is a sports enthusiast in the soccer club. Mio Komatsu, a beautiful girl at the school's beauty pageant grand Prix, and Kurokawa's childhood friend. One of the best talents, Ayane Takahata.

The four were wondering why this member was gathered, but gradually another face of Mizuguchi became clear. And again, the students who were gathered had problems.

The youth mystery of young people who are sprinting and tied together with bonds.

Adapted from the novel “GRADUATION TIME LIMIT” (卒業タイムリミット) by Tsujido Yume (辻堂ゆめ).

A black comedy political sitcom about an Olympic gold medalist who was appointed as minister of Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and is facing a kidnapping incident of her husband who is a political critic.

Three sons and one daughter gather at the eldest son’s house at their father’s deathbed. They need to divide up their father′s legacy of 2 billion won. In the presence of a public notary, the father leaves half of the inheritance to his eldest son and the other half to be shared by the rest of the children. The first son is disappointed that he only got half while the others complain about their small inheritance. In the midst of this escalating sibling dispute, the first son receives a phone call from someone claiming to have kidnapped his son! The kidnapper threatens to kill the boy if he doesn′t pay 2 billion won. To save his only son, the first son starts demanding his siblings hand over their share of father′s two billion won to the kidnapper. The film is rich in ideas that will draw the audience in. As the inheritance gets tangled up with the kidnapping, the situation goes from bad to worse. Each character is affected, unleashing more of their personality, as events race towards an unexpected conclusion.

In Beijing, Li Hui Yan is a perpetually broke but sharp-witted police detective who lives in a modest traditional neighbourhood with his teenage son. He is forever trying to borrow money from his co-workers. Meanwhile, Zhou You is a funeral parlour worker troubled by his past, who is occasionally contacted by the police for cadaver removal to the morgue. One fateful day, he is called out to pick up a body and discovers the police has been duped by a fake death certificate – the dead man had actually been a murder victim. Li Hui Yan becomes curious and interrogates Zhou You, noticing that the latter is an extraordinary talented detective by his own right.

When one of his son’s school girl friends is kidnapped by two masked assailants, Li Hui Yan investigation leads him to a small icy town in the north. Zhou You’s father is murdered under violent circumstances at the same time. The murderers’ trail bring Zhou You back to his father’s mysterious home town, the exact same town…

A group of office staff learn a secret of their big boss revealing that he was a serial killer who made a clean getaway. They have to find more clues and evidence to prove him guilty of murder charge, leading to the enjoyment, laughter and screams of these meddlesome folks.

A large corporation led by Mick, a megalomaniac CEO, announces to the world a miraculous microchip that will benefit mankind. The press conference is interrupted by Enoch, a former associate, working with a resistance group determined to stop Mick from executing his real plan, which is to control the world by implanting his microchip in people. Feeling threatened, Mick enlists the help of Xiao Yu, an elite assassin he had captured and imprisoned many years ago.

When Xiao Yu refuses to help him, Mick kidnaps his wife and daughter to pressure him. To save his family, Xiao Yu is forced to accept a mission to recover three pieces of source code that were stolen by the resistance and return them to Mick to complete his plan. During the mission, Xiao Yu meets Ye Yan, a reporter investigating the shadowy corporation. The fate of mankind rests in their hands.

After a VIP movie premiere, Korean top movie star Jeong Min gets kidnapped by strangers. Jeong Min first thinks that someone is playing pranks, but the kidnappers' cruelty helps Jeong Min realize that the abduction is no joke. Jeong-min tries to find his way out, while the kidnappers demand him a huge amount of ransom within 24 hours.

Jeong Min encounters a real brutality that is way different and more extreme than the ones he has seen in the movies.

Television news reports that a young woman has been kidnapped and her belongings sent individually to her family. Zaizen Shota, the CEO of Zaizen Corporation, recalls an eerily similar case from 18 years ago. Then, as an investigator at a private detective agency, a man called Tanioka Soichiro asked him to find his daughter, Tanioka Nanae. In that case, Nanae's kidnapper also sent photos and cuttings from her dress, underwear, and nails to Tanioka.

As a result of Zaizen's tampering in the Tanioka case, a suspect was never caught. Now Zaizen’s beloved daughter Mika goes missing and he too receives pieces of her belongings.

Meanwhile, Zaizen's wife and Mika's mother, the beautiful Yuko, is anxiously holding on to a secret that she cannot tell anyone.

As Zaizen investigates Mika’s disappearance on his own, he begins to learn about Yuko’s past while his life spirals out of control.

This collection of shocking, unpredictable stories feature the first screen adaptation of the number one young author of his generation, Otsuichi. Working with five different directors, ZOO features five stories (four live-action, one animated) of fear, sadness and pain.

"Zoo" A man kills a woman at an abandoned zoo and takes pictures of her dead body everyday. Then suddenly the zoo is gone and the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred. "Kazari and Yoko" The mother of twin sisters, Kazari and Yoko, loves only one of her daughters, and abuses the other. When the abused tries to break free, things take shocking turns.

"Seven Rooms" One day, a young boy and his older sister find themselves trapped in a small, concrete room. There are seven rooms in all, each containing a different prisoner. On the sixth day, everyone will be massacred. Can they survive?

"So Far" A young boy's father is convinced that his mother is dead. The mother is convinced the father is dead. The boy is the only person that both father and mother can see.

"When the Sun Shines" CG animation about a unique man learning about life and death in a world where most of humanity has already died out.

A best-selling writer is threatened when her private life is leaked and she is stigmatized. Soon after, she is kidnapped while at a bar and wakes up inside an oil drum covered in blood. In order to survive, the writer must confront her enemies and use her imagination to save herself.

“Bossam – Stealing Fate” will tell the story of a person who accidentally kidnaps a princess. Ba Woo who engages in the practice of connecting widows, who had no hopes of getting remarried, with new husbands. He was framed for conspiracy by someone at a young age and though he was able to escape with his life, he has had to hide his identity and live in poverty since. The drama will be set during the reign of King Gwang Hae, and revolve around Ba Woo and princess Soo Kyung. It will be a story of life and love that touches upon the oppression experienced by women and the impoverished.

No one involved in this matter is forgiven!

Jeong Woo, who grew up with Han Na under their adoptive mother, goes abroad to contribute to a difficult family environment.

However, after hearing the news of the death of his adoptive mother in a hit-and-run traffic accident, he returns to Korea, and found out that Cheol Jin, a member of the local organization Taechangpa, and former classmate of Han Na was involved.

Meanwhile, Taechangpa joined hands with the Japanese yakuza organization to expand its power. They kidnapped Han Na to catch Jeong Woo, who was tightening them up. This makes Jeong Woo even angrier.

The anger of a man who lost everything explodes!

The film centers on Iwao Shishido, who at age forty suddenly leaves his rural village, but returns with a foreign bride during his father's funeral.

This is adapted by director Keisuke Yoshida from Hideki Arai’s 1990s manga series with the same title.

Cheongdam-dong is the seat of wealth and prestige in Korean high society, but an ugly, deeply rooted scandal shakes it to its core when a woman who is determined to get pregnant learns that she is being deceived by the family (her mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and her husband) she was married into, and discovering that the building designer (whose mother supposedly had died) that she just befriended was a person she saved when she was a young girl. She is unaware that she is being sought after by her birth mother (after a woman kidnapped her when she was a baby), who is now married to a businessman and now has a daughter who happens to be jealous of her because she sees her as a rival for the love of her life.

Desperate to find his missing daughter, a father agrees to help a mysterious woman assassinate a novelist. At the same time, the young hero in the book’s alternate universe has also put his revenge plan into motion, and his actions begin to affect the real world.

Adapted from the short story "Assassination of the Novelist" of the same name in Shuang Xuetao's short story collection "Aviator".

When Tarn decides to get back together with her college sweetheart, her new boyfriend takes the news very badly and lures her into a dangerous trap.

Win and Lek are best friends. Lek is in love with Win but Win is dating Lek's older sister. When Lek leaves to go study overseas, she promises that Win will be the first person to see her degree when she comes back. While Lek is away, tragedy falls and Win's parents pass away. Win is also in a car accident. All this happens without Lek knowing, so when Lek comes back looking for Win only to hear that the entire Wongsurakarn family has passed on, she is devastated.

But Win is actually still alive and has been living in hiding for three years. All he wants is revenge for the wrongs done to him and his family, wrongs that have been instigated by Lek's own family. Will Win forgive past wrongs or will he use Lek as a tool in his plan of vengeance?

Investigation into a series of strange cases leads police Zhao Xu Zhen to a mysterious website called "Futmalls.com," which claims to be from the future. Customers can buy anything from the site, including future love, fame, or beauty. The product is non-refundable. And the price is unimaginable.

Even when they were orphans, Wang Yi Zhi has always been in love with Xin Xin. Now older, Yi Zhi decides to train as a boxer before he allows himself to profess his love, but only for her to fall for a geeky computer engineer who is secretly a popular superhero. When Xin Xin gets kidnapped, Yi Zhi must prove his love and his fighting skills to get the girl of his dreams.