Asian Drama

Tushan Hong Hong, a fox spirit from the righteous Tushan Fox Clan, saves Dongfang Yue Chu, a human youth pursued by his lifelong enemy, by chance. As they spend time together in Tushan, a bond gradually forms between them. Ultimately, they join forces with their loved ones to combat the forces of evil in order to fulfill their shared desire for peace between their two clans.

(Source: iQIYI)

Adapted from the manhua "Hu Yao Xiao Hong Niang" (狐妖小红娘) by Tuo Xiao Xin (庹小新).

Episodes: 38

Duration: 45 min.

Airs On: Thursday

Phupha and Khram love each other but later Phupha is murdered. However, something happens and Khram is pulled to a parallel world where, 12 years ago, Khram and Thai were in love. However, Khram was killed by Thai's dad. One day, Thai drives by a road and finds someone in the middle of the road. The face of that person stuns Thai because he looks exactly the same as his lover from 12 years so. What will happen next?

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Adapted from the web novel "2 Worlds" (2 Worlds: โลกสองใบ ใจดวงเดียว) by Prang (พราง).

Episodes: 10

Airs On: Thursday

The plot follows Princess Turandot, who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian bracelets that were given to her as birthday gifts. These bracelets’ life-draining effects cause the princess to become cruel, and gradually lose her humanity.

Foreign princes who come to court her must solve three riddles, one for each bracelet, and only then will she be freed from the power of the bracelets. In the event any of the questions is answered incorrectly, the attempted solver would be put to death. One day, Calaf, an ordinary citizen, risks his life to answer the riddles to save her and inadvertently uncovers his own extraordinary past.

A charming lamp is a precious object which belongs to Tahira but suddenly disappears from her castle. Meanwhile, Evelyn, a black witch who had been captured and detained in a cave as punishment, was able to break free and take her revenge on Tahira.

In the quest to find the precious lamp, Will, a handsome wizard, volunteers to go on this mission and comes across Reny, a beautiful and poor woman with an extraordinary gift who has never known her mother. Will suspects Reny may have something to do with the missing lamp.

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Episodes: 15

Lee Hong Jo is the lowest grade civil servant. She always does her best at work, even though she suffers from many civil complaints. In her personal life, she is used to being alone. One day, she happens to become the owner of an old wooden chest and the key to lift a curse from Jang Shin Yu.

Jang Shin Yu is a competent lawyer who is smart and good-looking. He is usually in the spotlight wherever he goes, but he suffers from an unexplained disease. His condition gets progressively worse. He is desperate to lift the curse that has run through his family for generations.

A lawyer bound by a centuries-old curse becomes entangled with a civil servant who holds the key to his freedom — igniting an unexpected romance.

(Source: AsianWiki; Netflix)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Wednesday, Thursday

Ratings: 8.1

There is something wrong with Fa's high school; strange events have been happening around her. In which way are they related to the new teacher, Ajin?

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A young woman gets transported back almost 200 years by a spell through a magical vessel where she meets her soulmate and uncovers secrets that connect to the future.

Adapted from the novel Phetra Naruemit (เภตรานิรมิต) by Siriwimol (ศิริวิมล).

Episodes: 17

Jang Uk returns from death, and three years later, the story of the mages unfolds anew. Jang Uk becomes a hunter of the soul-shifters when a young woman, a prisoner in her own home, seeks his help to reclaim her freedom.

When evil rises, there is a great need for the devilish flames to be extinguished.

When danger trembles Ban Pha Fa Rong, help is needed urgently. However, this time it is not easy because the opponent has black magic on their side to help.

Two young men with divine powers must join forces with the beautiful daughter of a notable man and fight the evil that threatens to ruin Ban Pha Fa Rong.

Nestled quietly in the heart of a buzzing community, there sits a school that to any who might pass it by, appears to be quite normal. However, as is often the case, looks can be quite deceiving. Inhabited by several malicious phantoms, this school plays host to more than its dedicated faculty and lively student body.

While most of the students at this school are largely unaware of the otherworldly beings who exist beside them, some are easily swayed by the phantom’s presence. For those who are easily manipulated by the specters, life has a way of quickly becoming a living nightmare as they’re forced to give in to the evil desires of their ghastly tormentors. But even as some students are swayed by the phantoms, others have taken on the role of a hunter and have accepted the responsibility of fighting against them.

One such hunter, Lee Do Gyeom, has dedicated his life to this task. As a student currently enrolled in this phantom school, it’s up to him to save those afflicted by the evil which haunts its halls. But does he have the strength to take on this malicious force alone?

In 1932, a series of bizarre murders occurred in Beihai City. During police detective Long Cong's investigation, he discovers that the murderer uses illusions to kill people under the guise of ghosts and monsters. Eventually, Long Cong, with the assistance of female reporter Hua Ling, brings the murderer to justice, but the hidden truth behind it is too much for him to accept.

Runway, an ordinary high-school boy, has suffered with nightmares since his father died on his 5th or 6th birthday. Only his father’s dreamcatcher can transform those bad dreams into sweet ones that generally feature P’Dream. This has all the makings of a supernatural love story until Runway's athletic neighbor, Tanai, suddenly asks him out for a date!

Runway’s best friends, Guide and Yim, try to help him navigate both the imaginary and real relationship. Meanwhile Guide starts to notice Tanai as his three year relationship begins to fall apart. And Guide’s brother, P’Good, is caught in an odd relationship with a mysterious, gender-shifting stranger who is somehow connected to the dreamcatcher. How is everyone’s story going to end? Will all the complications be solved? Can both Runway’s and Guide’s dreams come true?

Set in a fictional country called Daeho that does not exist in history or on maps, it is about the love and growth of young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to a forbidden magic spell known as the "alchemy of souls", which allows souls to switch bodies.

It follows the story of an elite assassin named Naksu, whose soul is accidentally trapped inside the weak body of Mu Deok—Jang Uk's servant from a powerful and noble mage family in the country. The young master of the Jang Family, Jang Uk, holds a dark secret about his scandalous birth. He wants the formidable assassin to help change his destiny.

(Source: Soompi; The Korea Herald)

Episodes: 20

Set in a fictional country called Daeho that does not exist in history or on maps, it is about the love and growth of young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to a forbidden magic spell known as the "alchemy of souls", which allows souls to switch bodies.

It follows the story of an elite assassin named Naksu, whose soul is accidentally trapped inside the weak body of Mu Deok—Jang Uk's servant from a powerful and noble mage family in the country. The young master of the Jang Family, Jang Uk, holds a dark secret about his scandalous birth. He wants the formidable assassin to help change his destiny.

(Source: Soompi; The Korea Herald)

Episodes: 20

Cha Cha Woong is a popular if somewhat sardonic stage and TV magician with a taste for the spectacular. His tricks dazzle audiences, but little do most people know – he has a gang of secret helpers! However, these are no ordinary magician’s assistants: They are actually ghosts. But Cha Cha Woong is not afraid of beings from the spirit realm – in fact, he treats them as his employees...and they, in turn, believe him to be their “boss.”

One day, his path crosses with that of Go Seul Hae, a young, passionate police officer who can also see ghosts – but is afraid of her abilities. He attempts to brush her off when she investigates an incident connected to one of his magic shows. But she soon realizes that the magician’s unusual abilities could be the perfect crime-fighting tool. She manages to convince him to join the police force in its efforts to catch fiendish criminals – and use his ghostly retinue to help foil evil masterminds! But in the course of their unorthodox partnership, could romance also make an appearance on the scene?

(Source: Viki)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 13 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Saturday, Sunday

High school student Yoon Ah Yi finances herself and her younger sister by working part-time jobs. She doesn't know where her parents are. Debt collectors drove her father away from home—and then her mother fled too. But even with her poor financial circumstances, Yoon Ah Yi manages to rank near the top of her school academically. Yoon Ah Yi wants to become an adult as soon as possible, to have a stable job.

Her classmate Na Il Deung competes with Yoon Ah Yi for the top grade, but they begin to have feelings for each other.

One day, Yoon Ah Yi meets magician Lee Eul at an abandoned amusement park. He performs magic shows for people who believe in magic. He is a mysterious person; he comforts Yoon Ah Yi who tells him that she believes in magic.

Adapted from the webtoon "Annarasumanara” (안나라수마나라) by Ha Il Kwon (하일권).

Xing Xing is the owner of a traditional hanfu clothing shop. She has a bright personality and is very hard working. One day, she was kidnapped by a mysterious man from Tianting Xing. Tianting Xing is a celestial star sect from heaven that has existed for the past 5000 years. She also has unexpectedly fallen in love with Yu Tianqi, the grandson of Tianting Xing leader. As she learned more about the Celestial Stars, she discovered that she was actually the crystallization of the forbidden love affair of the human 'immortal'. The half-human half-immortal in the world was an excellent material for cultivating "Mortal Pills". At the same time, because of her love affair with Tianqi, she was regarded as a thorn in the eye by the leader of Tianting xing, and he wanted to get rid of her. How should Xing Xing deal with the prevailing problems? How should her love with Tianqi continue? Xingxing and Tianqi wanted to stay on Earth forever for love and decided to solve these unknown mysteries together.

A yin and yang master transforms into a cat and finds herself in the arms of the handsome Qing Moyan of the Dali Temple.

Ru Xiaolan (Hu Yixuan) is a young woman from the modern day. Through a series of circumstances, she travels to the ancient times as a cat. Purely by chance, she meets Qing Moyan (Xu Kaicheng) who's suffering from a poison and as they kiss, they realize that they've found the solution to each other's complications. Deciding to stick together for their own gain, the two embark on a journey to find the five-colored stone that can break Xiaolan's curse and the ghost grass that can cure Moyan's affliction.

Mashin Sentai Kiramager The Movie: Bee-Bop Dream is a Japanese superhero film that serves as the Winter film for Mashin Sentai Kiramager.

It is a magical and realistic story set in the China Shopping Mall.

In the summer of 1985, Xiao Budian, a fourth-grade elementary school student, was the youngest son of a leather shoe store in China Shopping Mall. He was a businessman with a mouthful of Huaruirui, and he would go to a stall on the flyover every day to earn pocket money. On this day, a mysterious magician came to the mall. He has a cornucopia, a zebra that emits colourful light, and he will become a lot of magic tricks. Xiaodian admires magicians, he bought magic props to practice every day. At the same time, more and more boys and girls in shopping malls encounter this mysterious magician; and every time anyone who has seen magic, they will get the magical power to change their lives...

Adapted from Wu Mingyi's novel of the same name.

Win is the only survivor from a black magic attack that has taken away his father’s sacred amulet. When he come back for revenge with a powerful sorcery, he is faced with a new powerful cult that help people to be wealthy but hide its roots of black magic behind the benevolent front. He will have to destroy this organization before it ruins more lives and also his girlfriend’s future

A romance/fantasy featuring the cursed god Woven, who is newly-arrived on Earth, where he must design and create outfits that are comforting to humans, in order that he may regain entry into heaven. Together with his savvy assistants Joey and Han Sarang, they successfully heal the emotional wounds of their clientele.

This made-for-web drama showcases the clothing, accessories, and home furnishings of HANDSOME INC.

In 18th century Joseon, a complicated political situation exists under King Jeongjo. Citizens who read commercial novels by Cheong Woon Mong are killed. Kim Min and Seo Pil investigate the killings.

In the year 2012, three delinquents including Atsuya discover that their hideout, a run-of-the-mill general store, was owned by an elderly man who gave free advice to worried people through letters. Something weird happens during late hours of the night and Atsuya realizes that a letter will be thrown into the mailbox at midnight. It is a letter asking for advice addressed to the Namiya General Store written by a person 32 years ago. Incredibly, the mailbox was connected to the past, in the year 1980. While confused, Atsuya writes a reply in place of the shopkeeper. The group keeps replying as another letter is sent, then another.

The show displayed four acts, performed by either a magician or a KAIST scientist, and it was the guests' job to figure out where the act was purely a magic trick or based on flawed scientific theory or an actual scientific phenomenon. After each answer, the opponent could choose to attempt to modify the act to make it a magic trick or more scientific based on the act.

Moga Shiratori, like all the girls who are chosen to attend the White Witch Academy, harbored deep emotional scars from their pasts. But through their grueling training, they were able to harness their pain to discover their true powers as White Witches. But the new witches are suddenly faced with an evil group known as the Black Witches, who have taken one of their girls. As Moga and her friends infiltrate their Black Witch Academy, they try to rescue their friend and protect the world from the evil powers of these enemies.

The drama focuses on 45-year-old Tsuboi Ryota, the coordinator of a large CM company who is receiving a request from one of their clients to change some parts of their new CM. However, he’s unable to really explain to the director what changes should be made exactly. At the same time, he receives a call from his older sister, who tells him that his father has collapsed while golfing in Nagano and that he was admitted to a local hospital. In a hurry, Ryouta decides to go to Nagano, his birthplace.

Tsuboi Ryota is a good man. Nobody can really hate him, which is why the coordinator between his company and their clients seems like the perfect job for him. However, he frequently finds himself stuck in a dilemma, whether that’s between his wife and his daughter, his older sister and their mother, or his family and work in general.

Adding some mysterious, almost fantastical elements to this family drama are Miyazaki as a puzzling young woman Ryota happens to meet at the hospital and Natsuyagi as his father who strongly believes in the existence of a tiny fairy-like race called the ‘Kuna’.

Episodes: 10