Asian Drama

Iwakura Mai lives with her parents Kota and Megumi and older brother Haruto. Her father Kota runs a small factory in Higashi Osaka, a district that is known for its craftsmen. Mai is shy and withdrawn. But when she visits her grandmother Shoko who lives on Nagasaki’s Goto Islands which has a rich natural environment, she is entranced by the Baramon kites that catch the wind and soar high in the sky. Wanting to fly high in the sky like these kites, Mai’s longing swells into a dream to become a pilot. Even though she works hard, the path to getting there is tougher than she had imagined. As Mai deepens her ties with the people living in her two hometowns of Higashi Osaka and Goto, her dream eventually takes a new form. She gathers enthusiastic friends to build a small electric plane that can fly to and from the islands. Her dream becomes a wing that carries everyone’s dreams and takes off.

(Source: jdrama.wordpress)

Episodes: 126

Duration: 15 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

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

Yin is a successful businessperson who dreams of love at first site. Her troublemaking younger brother Yang regularly sets her up on blind dates, but fate toys with her when she drunkenly takes her relationship with Chen—a university intern—too far. She then meets Ray, a businessperson who hits on her openly. Subsequently, despite her desire to keep it a secret, Yin and Chen agree to a three-month trial relationship. Within these three months, she must search within herself to find who she truly likes.

(Source: Thai = GMMTV)

Episodes: 10

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

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Tokyo, Aidano, Koidano (2021)

A story in which young people who can only talk about troubles on the net create new expressions by co-creating music.

Huang Yuan Zi, Jiang Yi, Fang Ming Yu, Zhuang Yuan, Lan Yi Fei, and Guan Chao, who were born in a state-owned courtyard that housed workers’ families, became friends when they were 6 years old due to an accident in the factory area. Before going to college, they all grew up in this courtyard, which was full of warmth and fireworks, and they became known as the "Group of Six".

The good friends had promised to be together for the rest of their lives but were forced to abandon things because of an accident in the year of the Gaokao college entrance examination. Many years later, at the age of 30, they each walked alone on their respective paths of life.

Suddenly, one day, they received the news that their good friend Guan Chao was about to get married. Their memories were awakened, and the past was vividly remembered. This was an opportunity for Huang Yuanzi, who has always hoped to reunite the group of six. This time, no matter what challenges she was about to face, she would try her best to let everyone walk on together till the end.

Times change, but feelings don't. With many questions left to be answered, after all this time, can these childhood friends get back together again?

(Source: National Radio and Television Administration)

Adapted from the novel "Who Do You Like at Seventeen" (十七岁你喜欢谁) by Ying Shi Liu (樱十六).

Episodes: 32

Duration: 45 min.

Yaemori Arisu runs a small restaurant named Alice’s Kitchen. She has autism spectrum disorder, which leads her to be stubborn at times and generally poor at communicating with other people. Her condition also allows her to have a phenomenal memory. She became interested in chemistry due to her single father, Yaemori Shingo, who teaches chemistry at a university. With her vast knowledge of chemistry, she understands nutrients and the cooking process from a scientific viewpoint. Her cooking skills are extraordinary, and her food always pleases.

At her restaurant, she works with her childhood friend Mitsumata Kazusa. Even though the restaurant is quite popular, they are the only two employees who work there. While Alice cooks dishes in the kitchen, Mitsumata is in charge of greeting and serving food to the customers.

One day, a young man named Sakae Kosei appears at the restaurant and asks to work there as a live-in part-time worker. Since then, Yaemori Arisu has experienced a big change in her life.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Sunday

Starring A-list actors Zo In Sung and Cha Tae Hyun, the reality show invites the two long-time friends to take over a larger supermarket for 10 days in a rural town. It follows the two actors' mishaps of running a business while interacting with the town's close-knitted neighbors and sharing parts of their lives.

(Source: kbizoom.com)

Episodes: 12

Mu Di, a Suo Na professional woman with a high decree of education and ability, went back home to recover from an injury. There she meets Bai Lang, a smart and capable boss of a company. Due to an incident, the two are forced to run a business together.

In the process of building the business together, Mu Di not only felt a different kind of human warmth but also got welcomed with open arms by the local people of the town, got the inspiration to combine traditional art and pop culture.

Mu Di has a new understanding of the folk music she once used to love. She has made continual progress in performances and have received much praise. She has also changed her rocky start with Bai Lang for the better.

In the end, Mu Di and the members of the folk orchestra took the opportunity to make traditional folk music that's known and loved by many.

Under the influence of Bai Lang, Mu Di put down her walls and faced her heart. Not only did she find a career that she loves, but she also found a home that she loves.

(Source: Douban)

Episodes: 30

Duration: 45 min.

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

Magnificent Dogs follows two celebrities, Lee Kyung-kyu and Lee Yoo-bi, as they learn and train to be dog trainers. Kyung-kyu is famous for raising several pets for years, while Yoo-bi has never taken care of pets. The two are trained by Kang Hyung-wook, Korea's best dog trainer. They are very eager but realize slowly that adoring pets and training pets are very different. Can they succeed in becoming a competent dog trainer? The show covers the two celebs' daily lives and training while exploring the best way for people and pets to live in harmony.

In June 1993, the transnational cooperation between Donghai Chemical and Luoda Company was in full swing. Song Yun Hui, the key person behind the joint venture with Donghai, is leading the workers of Pengyang, a factory inferior to Donghai in all aspects, to begin its process of reform. Despite the difficulties in narrowing the gap between the two companies, Yunhui continues to adhere to his original intentions.

Lei Dong Bao leads Dengfeng Electric and merges with small factories to establish a cluster. He sets rules, finds investments, engages in foreign trade, and experiences the reality of human relationships. Nonetheless, he makes sure to always put the interests of the people first.

Yang Xun and Liang Si Shen are working together to build a shopping mall. In the midst of things, Liang Si Shen tries her best to balance Luoda's and Donghai's interests. The two gradually open their hearts in their cooperation to face future challenges hand in hand. With ups and downs along the way, the situation is constantly changing, but what remains unchanged are the courageous dream chasers who continue to work hard.

(Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Episodes: 33

Duration: 45 min.

Lin Xi, who's known as the "witch" in the translation industry, reunites with ex-boyfriend Xia Yi Cheng. Eight years ago, she broke up with him for the sake of fulfilling her mother's wish for her to become a professional interpreter for the United Nations.

Eight years later, Lin Xi has become the youngest chief interpreter at Huasheng while her ex Xiao Yi Cheng has become the chief technology officer of a communications company, which also makes him her potential client.

In order to land a contract with Xiao Yi Cheng, Lin Xi has no choice but to keep dealing with him. She helps his company go public, and even though it seems that Xiao Yi Cheng is out to get revenge on Lin Xi, he actually doesn't have the heart to be mean to her. Work rekindles their passionate relationship, and Xiao Yi Cheng gradually comes to understand the reason she broke up with him. Together, they work hard to realize their dream of "speaking for the country".

(Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Episodes: 36

Duration: 45 min.

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

This drama is about the takeover of the Korean government in 1979 by Chun Doo Hwan.

Episodes: 41

Duration: 1 hr. 5 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Saturday, Sunday

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).

"Born to Run" tells the inspirational family ethics story of two mothers and daughters who rebuild their souls and ignite their lives after a car accident hit the bottom of their lives through a female perspective.

Xiu Fang and Xiu Li are a pair of completely different sisters. Xiu Fang is optimistic and tenacious. After losing her husband, she opened a fried chicken shop for a living . All the while going through depression. Xiu Li is pessimistic, depressed, patriarchal, and has a strong desire to control her two children.

After Xiu Fang's 60th birthday party, a car accident claimed the legs of her daughter An Xin and the life of Xiu Li's son. How to start life again has become the biggest problem facing the two families...

When fate made a big joke with you, what would you choose to do? The future is blocked by a wall of resentment, fear, helplessness, hesitation, despair so what will you do?

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Adapted from the novel "Ru Guo Ben Pao Shi Wo De Su Ming" (如果奔跑是我的宿命) by Ji Jing Rong (纪静蓉).

Episodes: 28

Duration: 45 min.

Tatsuya was killed in a car accident and his spirit lives in Hikata - the one who killed him in the accident. Since then, he had a hard time trying to change his girlfriend's perception of "him" or "Hikata" while still trying to protect her.

Episodes: 13

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Monday

After losing his mother—who worked as a haenyeo (female diver who harvests sea life)—at a young age due to a mistaken weather report, Jo Yong Pil makes up his mind to become a weather forecaster and protect the elders of his hometown. However, his passion and refusal to let misinformation slide earns him a reputation at work as a stubborn troublemaker who isn’t afraid to argue with his boss.

Jo Sam Dal, who grew up with Jo Yong Pil. Unlike Jo Yong Pil, content to remain in his hometown of Samdalri, Jo Sam Dal makes it her mission to get out of their small town and move to Seoul. After years of toiling away as an assistant in the fashion photography industry, Jo Sam Dal—who changes her name to Jo Eun Hye in Seoul—finally succeeds and makes it to the top. However, when everything she’s worked so hard to build comes crashing down in the blink of an eye, she returns to Samdalri, where people still know her as Sam Dal and not Eun Hye.

Although Jo Yong Pil and Jo Sam Dal used to be joined at the hip when they were younger, the once inseparable friends are no longer in contact with one another due to an incident that drove them apart. When Jo Sam Dal returns to Samdalri, however, they find that the longtime affection they once had for one another comes rushing back.

(Sources: Soompi)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Saturday, Sunday

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.

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Episodes: 13

Aired On: Thursday

Cha Jin Woo has a hearing impairment. He is not comfortable speaking due to his disability. Cha Jin Woo is used to expressing his feelings through drawings instead of speaking. He happens to meet Jung Mo Eun. She is an aspiring actress and expresses her feelings through words. Cha Jin Woo and Jung Mo Eun fall in love with each other.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday

"Ice Cream Fever" tells the story of four women whose ages range from their teens to thirties, and their lives intersect at an ice cream shop.

Adapted from the short story "Aisukurimu Netsu" (アイスクリーム熱) from the collection "Ai no Yume Toka" (愛の夢とか) by Kawakami Mieko.

Set in the 1960's, high school student Watanabe Toru loses his only friend Kizuki after he commits suicide. Toru, now looking for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, Toru meets Kizuki's ex-girlfriend Naoko in the university. They grow close because they both share the same loss.

As Toru and Naoko grow even closer, Naoko's sense of loss also grows. After Naoko's 20th birthday, she leaves for a sanitarium in Kyoto. Toru, devastated by the situation, meets pure-hearted Midori during the spring semester. Midori looks like a small animal that just came into the world.

Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

One is Xu Nuo, a florist who has spent ten years in unsuccessful relationships. The other is Zhao Jin, a veterinarian burdened with family responsibilities. Both of these mature individuals are also being forced to marry by their parents, relatives, friends and matchmakers. They met when their lives seemed to be at a standstill, not knowing how to restart. However, there is an insurmountable gap between Xu Nuo, who is mentally and emotionally exhausted, and Zhao Jin, who comes from a complex family background. Misunderstandings from their friends and obstacles from their parents put their love through various trials.

Zhao Jin's tender care for Xu Nuo brings her warmth and reassurance she hasn't felt in a long time. It rekindles her confidence and desire for love, which she channels into her floral artistry, ultimately becoming a renowned florist. Xu Nuo's presence gradually heals the emotional scars that Zhao Jin has carried for many years, and he starts to experience happiness once again. Through their true love, they overcome numerous hardships and obstacles, getting to know each other, falling in love, and supporting each other, growing together.

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Episodes: 24

Duration: 45 min.

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

So Utsumi doesn't have many friend. After school and before going to a private institute, he kills time by doing nothing on the riverside. One day, Shokichi Seto appears in front of him. Shokichi quit the soccer team and has nothing to do. They spend time together.

In front of the two guys, Ichigo Kashimura and Hatsumi, from the same high school, appear.

Salaryman Masumi goes to great lengths to get his 6-year-old daughter into a prestigious primary school.

Duration: 1 hr. 54 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Do you believe that there exist countless parallel universes that are exactly like the world you live in?

Jiang Xiao Yuan finds herself struggling with her identity as she travels across parallel universes that never seem to intersect. In her original world, she is an invincible wealthy daughter, but in another place, she becomes an ordinary working girl who has absolutely nothing. Along the way, she meets the mysterious Qi Lian, and together, they search for the truth involving the mystery surrounding her. Stripped of wealth, family background, appearance, and education, Jiang Xiao Yuan sets herself on a journey to find pieces of her "real" identity.

Adapted from the novel "Derailment" (脱轨) by Priest.

Episodes: 30

Duration: 43 min.

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

A pair of childhood friends Chen Mu Guang and Shi Fan Tuan roast and support each other throughout their youth. They end up together after twenty years of twists and turns.

Chen Muguang has led a difficult life, yet remains to be an honest and upright young man. He may seem cold on the outside, but he is actually sensitive and affectionate. His childhood friend Shi Fan Tuan is a natural ditz. Two contrasting personalities growing up together is bound to lead to a lot of oolong incidents.

(Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Adapted from Lian Lian Bu Wang (恋恋不忘) by Bing Lan Sha (冰蓝纱)

Episodes: 20

Duration: 35 min.

Aired On: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Mantaro comes from a rich family in Kochi who owns a brewery but because of him being sickly, he becomes the target of bullying. As a child, he has been fascinated with plants and decides to quit school so as to head to Teikoku University in Tokyo where he studies botany and works as a research assistant with the vision of creating an encyclopedia on all plants in Japan, he works hard to realise his dream.

Can friendship be formed among men and women? This is a story of four men and women who led separate lives and happen to come together while facing various relationship problems due to having friends of the opposite sex.

(Source: DramaWiki)

Episodes: 10

Adapted from the manga series "What Did You Eat Yesterday?" (きのう何食べた?) by Yoshinaga Fumi (よしなが ふみ).

Episodes: 10

It tells the story of four hot-blooded senior boys from Pingjing First High School who pursue their dreams with fervor and grow up together through thick and thin.

(Source: cpophome)

Adapted from the novel "Nan Xiao Dou Fu Dian" (男校豆腐店) by Guo Wang Bi Xia (国王陛下).

Episodes: 24

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

"If I tell you that I like you, will this end our friendship?"

One-sided love is always a series of choices. I secretly think about you, but an invisible wall called "friend" stands in my way. I wanted to break down that wall, but I couldn't...

A manager chasing his dream, and the regulars who lost their dreams. All sorts of human dramas take place in this restaurant. Why do sweet-sounding things like love and dreams hurt so much?

A short drama series set in a peculiar café, each depicting a step forward and growing up.

(Source: Japanese = sokenbicha.jp || Translation = ECOTVSubs)

Episodes: 8

Duration: 10 min.

Aired On: Monday