Asian Drama

Akari's birth mother is originally from Osaka. She moves to Osaka to live with her grandmother to learn more about her mother. She learns that her grandmother closed the okonomiyaki (a Japanese savory pancake) restaurant after Akari's teenage mother had ran away. Akari then re-opens the okonomiyaki restaurant and tries to start the business on her own.

This new season is set in an entirely new universe, with Riko this time portraying the president of a start-up company called Dream Crazy.

A treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike and potter Sasuke. The treasure is Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s chawan (procelain tea bowl) called Houou, that has been missing.

Nakagawa Arisu is in the 3rd grade of high school and 18 years old. Her mother died when she was 11 years old. She has since lived with her father, who works as a firefighter. Having been influenced by her mother, Nakagawa Arisu has dreamed of becoming a curator who travels abroad often for work. But her life changes when she learns she is pregnant.

Meanwhile, Naruse Toko is about to turn 40 years old soon. She works in the art world as someone who connects art and business. Naruse Toko is dedicated to her work and she hasn't been in a romantic relationship for 10 years. Nakagawa Arisu and Naruse Toko, who are totally different people, happen to meet and their encounter changes their lives.

What can happen when complete strangers live together under one roof? A Chinese variety show that brings together a group of strangers to live together in the same house for 30 days. Guan Hong, Yang Chao Yue, Zhu Ya Wen, Zhang Yu Qi, and Jiang Si Da are panelists who pass commentary from their front-row seats on all the interactions of the housemates. What conflicts and connections develop among the new housemates?

Episodes: 20

An expedition of three men who have come together begins! Actor Cha Seung Won teams up with Ju Yeon from THE BOYZ and actor Kim Sung Kyun. They travel to Mexico, where they will explore the culture and historyof Ancient Maya and how it is preserved today. Stay tuned for delicious food and great scenery!

(Source: Viu)

Episodes: 8

Adapted from the manga series "Barakamon" (ばらかもん) by Yoshino Satsuki (ヨシノサツキ).

Akira Minato, running his grandfather's laundromat, finds his relationship with Shintaro Katsuki facing unexpected challenges after three months of bliss. Meanwhile, Asuka and Hiiragi's budding romance takes a complicated turn. Brace yourself for the trials and tribulations that await these two pairs of lovers in this captivating sequel!

Adapted from the manga "Minato Shouji Coin Laundry" (みなと商事コインランドリー) by Tsubaki Yuzu (椿ゆず).

"Sydney, here we come!" The Busan Boys visit the peaceful port city of Sydney, with shining waters and the sail-shaped Opera House!

Four Busan Boys go on a working holiday to Sydney, Australia. Four actors and travel YouTuber Kwak Joon Bin unite under the name of their hometown, Busan. With beautiful scenes of nature, a high minimum wage, and English as the common language, Australia is a popular destination for working holidays. Will these four be able to achieve both their goals of finding a nice job and going on fun adventures? Join them on their journey as they explore Sydney, a city similar to yet different from Busan.

(Source: cjenm.com)

Episodes: 12

A story about a group of young people from various educational backgrounds and environments, who fatefully meet at the sea in the middle of summer, and grow up together as they confront with their complex feelings and bottled-up emotions.

The story follows three couples in their 20s, 30s, and 40s.

Focus on realistic themes to fully demonstrate the "quarter" youth crisis in family and career.

There is Xu Yao, a Beijing native who lost his girlfriend after a business failure, and Yu Jia En, a Beijing single woman has maintained her life for ten years. The small-town girl Zhang Qing who lives a bright and beautiful life, Li Nian Huan who suffered a derailment during pregnancy, Hao Chen Shi, a rebellious boy, and Zhao Ang. Its protagonists faced many different crises and their growth through difficulties and uneasiness, the 'beauty' of life is redefined.

Episodes: 30

Seok Goo is a man in his 30's, but has the intelligence of an 8-year-old. He runs a rice mill in a village, where kind neighbors and friends live nearby. One day, he sees a runaway girl, Eun Ji who is mistaken to have been a pickpocket at a village party.

Seok Goo helps her by resolving the misunderstanding. He and Eun Ji become friends afterwards. Teacher Kim is a teacher at a shelter where Eun Ji stays. Teacher Kim is worried about the friendship between Seok Goo and Eun Ji, but a Catholic priest sets Teacher Kim’s worries at ease.

One evening, something happens to Eun Ji at Seok Goo’s rice mill.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Duration: 1 hr. 47 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Ratings: 7.1

A hyper-realistic drama depicting the daily lives of clumsy women in their 30s in the fashion industry and their joys and sorrows at work.

Adapted from the novel "Da Cheng Xiao Shi" (大城小室) by Jiang Li Han (姜立涵).

Episodes: 36

Jian Bing, a well-known advertising director, and Sheng Yang, a newcomer in the industry, randomly crossed paths inside a restaurant one day. One has just ended a marriage, while the other was waiting for a love to finally fall apart. These two strangers eventually developed a bond and began embarking on a journey of sublime growth and budding romance. With the company of Sheng Yang, Jian Bing was able to gain her confidence back both in life and in love whereas Sheng Yang grew up from a young and carefree youth to one with a keen edge under the guidance and encouragement of Jian Bing. The two healed each other, grew up together, and overtime learned to love one another.

However, challenges in life are inevitable. Faced with their differences both in their identities and experiences, objections towards their relationship within their families, and rumors in the workplace escalating, Jian Bing and Sheng Yang finally decided to let their future play out through the course of time. Three years passed, allowing them to grow and change for the better. A lot of their firsts were spent with each other, and this trust they held and the experiences they shared back then went around and finally found them, making them gravitate towards each other again.

Episodes: 36

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Go Hae Ra worked hard as a merchandiser, but after having a child, she quit her job. For the past 7 years, she put all of her energy into raising her child. She now wants to resume her working career, but she struggles to find a job.

One day, she takes an interview for an entry level position at Market House. There, she meets Choi Ji Won, the director of the product planning team who holds the real power at Market House thanks to her charisma and leadership abilities. Go Hae Ra and Choi Ji Won once worked together at another company, so Choi Ji Won decides to hire Go Hae Ra for an intern position in the product planning team. She offers a sweet, but cruel suggestion to Go Hae Ra.

Episodes: 12

The no plan, hard work variety show documentary is back with season 2! Join Kian84, DEX and Pani Bottle in a new adventure through the country where life and death coexist: India.

(Source: MBC)

Episodes: 10

The drama follows the lives of four individuals who are known for their clumsiness. Despite their various struggles, anxieties, and desires for approval, they somehow manage to maintain a cool and composed demeanor in their everyday lives. ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Cool Doji Danshi" (クールドジ男子) by Nata Kokone (那多ここね).

The Fourth Industrial Revolution has led to the development of cutting-edge technologies that have rapidly evolved the world. As a result, schools have begun incorporating these technologies into their curriculum, leaving behind the ways of the old. One such institution is the elite Yuyu Girls' Vocational High School, where both Serufu Yua and her childhood friend, Miku "Purin" Suride, have applied. Although the tech-savvy Purin is accepted to Yuyu High, the accident-prone Serufu is rejected and enters the traditional Gatagata Girls' High School instead, driving a wedge into their friendship.

On her way to class one day, Serufu gets into a bike accident, and Rei Yasaku, a passerby who attends the same school, fixes her damaged bicycle. Serufu later finds out that Rei has a passion for old-fashioned crafts and is the head of the school's Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Club—which is in danger of closing due to a lack of members.

Realizing that this may be her chance to repair her relationship with Purin, Serufu joins the club in hopes of creating projects that could bring them together once more. As the DIY Club welcomes new faces, Serufu learns to build not only handicrafts but also new friendships along the way!

Adapted from the anime TV series "Do It Yourself!!" (Do It Yourself!! -どぅー・いっと・ゆあせるふ-) produced by Pine Jam (パインジャム).

The program features actors Im Si Wan and Jung Hae In, who were both born in 1988, traveling all over Scotland along with whiskey.

Known for being close friends and lovers of whiskey, the two will travel to Scotland, which is one of the locations with the greatest amount of whiskey produced.

(Source: Soompi)

Episodes: 8

A police investigator, who is the grandson of an extremely wealthy merchant but lacks fighting skills, running abilities, and has a fear of the dark, returns to action. This time, he is investigating a gang of thieves, but...

Kitayama Chika is a salesperson of an apparel shop who recently married Satoru, a manga artist assistant. Despite their very different personalities, Chika and Satoru enjoy their lives a lot as newlyweds, but they slowly noticed many strange changes, such as the house getting messier day by day. One day, Chika was dismissed from her job and was wondering why she couldn't do things well. She decided to get tested and found out that she has a "developmental disorder" in which the symptoms are very similar to what she has been experiencing. After hearing the result, Chika and Satoru decide to take unexpected actions while being watched over by the people around them.

Mashiro Shibutani and her family live in Imizu, Toyama Prefecture. With a minor mental disability (that doesn't effect her daily life), she spends her days by tending to her father’s bicycle store and taking care of her pet dog. One day, while visiting a shrine for her older brother's wedding, Mashiro meets photographer Keiichi Yui who came from Tokyo. She accidentally presses the shutter button on his camera, which he left with her for a short while. Keiichi is fascinated by the pictures which Mashiro took on accident. Because of this, they get closer.

Story about workers in the Changxindian railway factory in southwest Beijing. Early years of the Republic of China - Kang Ben Shan, Wang Ran Qiu, Wan Cheng Shun and others are Changxin who grew up in the bottom "mouth" and "seam" of the ancient town of Changxindian in southwest Beijing. Shop railway factory workers, they dream of “being great craftsmen, repairing the most difficult machines, and building the best trains”. Under the leadership of the party, they united the workers to fight together, set up workers' clubs, protected technical backbones, resisted Japanese aggression, arrested Kuomintang agents, etc., dedicated all their efforts in the historical process of national independence, national prosperity, and industrial rise.

(Source: Douban)

Episodes: 45

When high school student Kim Eun Mi discovered that she was pregnant, her entire life changed in an instant. Determined to keep her baby, Eun Mi did just that. Raising her daughter, Jin Hee, on her own, the two have quite literally grown up together.

Now in her forties, Eun Mi works as a physical therapist while twenty-nine-year-old Jin Hee works as an officer at the Namchon Police Substation. Despite being an adult herself, Jin Hee still lives with her mother; a fact which leads to an endless stream of bickering between the two. Though both mother and daughter will agree that they love each other dearly, the two just can’t seem to find a way to get along these days.

As if struggling to find a way to deal with her daughter wasn’t enough, Eun Mi’s life takes a complicated turn when Dr. Park Jin Hong suddenly appears before her. While Eun Mi tries to make sense of the mysterious Dr. Park, Jin Hee struggles to find a way to get along with her works new director, Eun Jae Won.

(Source: Viki)

Adapted from the webtoon "Namnam" (남남) by Jeong Young Ryong (정영룡).

Episodes: 12

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Doctor Purim, a famous neurosurgeon, is born in a rich and well-known family. His father is a famous professor of economics and his mother is a former famous actress. With his perfect family background, his father has designed his path since he was born. Purim was never given any choice to do what he really wanted. He decides to buy a house and moves out to live alone. Since then, he has his own little peaceful space with a secret hobby that no one knows about.

One day, his peaceful life ends when a new neighbor moves in. Her name is Matalada, a strange woman who loves dressing in a Bohemian style. She is raised by a single father who is gay and the owner of a cabaret in Pattaya. She had been bullied by friends since she was young. But being around kind-hearted people in the cabaret, she has been filled with a lot of love. Her father loves her and gives her a lot of freedom.

Matalada buys a house in Bangkok and moves in with her aunt, a ladyboy in the cabaret who has raised her since she was little and loves her like a real daughter. One day, she finds something that looks like blood in the trash bin in front of Purim’s house. She enters his house and finds a bloody baby's body in his kitchen and thinks he's a murderer. Purim eats it to prove that it is not a real body. It's a Halloween cake that he made, and that is his secret hobby. Matalada tries it and finds it very delicious. She asks him to teach her how to make a birthday cake for her father.

From then on, they go from strangers to acquaintances, and become close friends. Matalada, a kind-hearted woman, brings her warm family into his life and fills his lonely heart with a love that he had never received before.

Adapted from the novel “Matalada” (มาตาลดา) by Natnara (ณัฐณรา).

Eun Chae Ryung is a spoiled daughter who had always completely relied on her father. When he is involved in an accident one day, she finds herself rudely awakened from her sheltered life and forced to mature, encountering numerous hardships before she gradually becomes an independent person.

Su Yu, a high school student who lives a simple life with his father, faces a major change when his mother remarries a wealthy man, introducing him to his step-brother Wu Bi. Despite their initial differences-Wu Bi being a cold and arrogant top student, while Su Yu is an unreasonable underachiever-their relationship takes an unexpected turn after an accident. As they gradually warm up to each other, their bond grows stronger. However, when a heated fight arises, their true identities are revealed...

A program that showcases the concert tour of five top female artists, showing everything that goes behind the scenes, including their interactions with fans.

Adapted from the novel "Kisetsu no Nai Machi" (季節のない街) by Yamamoto Shugoro (山本 周五郎).

Episodes: 10