Asian Drama

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A story about the death of So Hyeon, who returned from the Qing Dynasty in the Joseon Injo period.

Movie cut of the series. Ai studied abroad until, after being expelled for quarrelling, his father forces him to return to Thailand where he attends classes at the university where he teaches. There, Ai meets Chen Nhai, his new Harley Davidson-riding classmate who has an obsession with a yellow duck keychain. Ai falls in love at first sight and a whirlwind romance ensues.

The drift team that is on the verge of breaking up scouts Koichi Oba who is not good at socializing due to his introverted personality but has an amazing talent for games.

Koichi is able to demonstrate his talent even in a real car, but those who appear in front him are people who bet their lives on the race.

Now, Koichi's awakened skills, passion, courage and teamwork break through the barrier between the virtual world and the real world and reach the zenith.

Korean auteur Hong Sang Soo adds a new chapter to his impressive body of work, taking a gently delightful new perspective on themes dear to his poetics.

A high-concept film where the protagonist's face is changed every two minutes.

Anne wakes up alone on a mysterious island. With no recollection of who she is or how she got there, she needs to quickly figure out how to survive and escape from her current predicament.

Seon Ho is a writer who, two years ago, was short on money, so decided to try to improve his financial situation by creating racy web-based cartoon strips (also known as webtoons). Known as “19+” titles, these webtoons may only be read by those aged 19 or above. Seon Ho’s titles have become extremely popular. But they have had a very unexpected effect on his sex drive. Since he began writing, he cannot feel aroused.

He has also become extremely busy, as his titles are in great demand. So Seon Ho decides to hire an assistant to help him meet his deadlines. The assistant, Mu Young, turns out to be a reader – Seon Ho’s number one fan, in fact. As they start to work together, they start to feel the pull of mutual attraction. But one of Mu Young’s male acquaintances, a young man called Jun Seok starts to fall for Mu Young – even though he has a girlfriend. Will Seon Ho’s sex drive ever return? And could he find love with Mu Young?

Adapted from the webtoon “Oh! My Assistant” (오나의어시님) by Mila (밀라) and Angrymonster (앵몬).

A movie about a bloody and comical "Sseol" exhibition of characters who are in a situation where they cannot tell what is true or false.

5 people, whose identities are unknown to each other, gather for a one time robbery job. They head to a motel, where a yakuza gang use to launder money. The group succeed in their heist and prepare to go back to their normal lives, but the yakuza are following them.

The story unfolds when a bomb that responds to sound is discovered in the city at the center of the city. This terror attack occurs following an incident that happened one year ago in a submarine, and important figures such as a submarine commander, reporter, and a member of the Defense Security Support Command come together to try and stop the bomb.

Kang Do Young is a Navy submarine commander. He’s a key figure linked to the submarine incident that was the cause of the terror attack. Oh Dae Oh is a passionate reporter. Cha Young Han is a member of the Defense Security Support Command.

The rookie star Zhang Zheng Yi, who murdered his girlfriend and was imprisoned seven years ago, kidnapped Liu Li Min, a former media worker, to escape from prison. Li Min uses the whole situation to his advantage and announces on his channel that he would re-investigate the case. But the more he digs into it, the more he discovers many dark secrets, also related to his private life. Will the fight for the truth be worth it?

Hyun Suk, becomes trapped inside his office building when zombies take over the Gangnam district of Seoul. Meanwhile, Min Jung, is always the first to step forward and fight back when she sees injustice. Together, the two characters must fight for their lives as they attempt to break out of the building.

Set in the 22nd century, climate change has caused the planet to become uninhabitable and humans live within a man-made shelter. A war takes place within the shelter. Jung Yi is the elite leader of the allied forces. She becomes the subject of a brain cloning experiment. The cloning experiment is a potential key to win the war.

Seo Hyun and Sang Hoon are responsible for the success of the brain cloning experiment. Seo Hyun is the team leader of the laboratory that develops brain cloning and AI technology. Sang Hoon is the director of the laboratory.

Adapted from the novel "Akira and Akira" (アキラとあきら) by Ikeido Jun (池井戸潤).

Yasuo grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira. Yasuo's life seemed great at the time, but his life totally changed after his wife died in an accident. Since that time, Yasuo, who never experienced his parents' love himself, has to raise his son Akira alone.

Adapted from the novel "Kite" (とんび) by Shigematsu Kiyoshi (重松清).

An 18-year-old man named Morio wakes up from a coma 12 years after he was involved in an accident. Although he has the body of an adult, he still has the mind of a child. He’s soon reunited with his childhood best friend Mikihiko and the two reflect back on how much fun and free life was when they were children.

Under the same roof are three couples and four romances. Every meal in this family with three brothers is like a hilarious disaster.

Eldest brother (Dayo Wong) is still not over his ex-girlfriend Monica (Stephy Tang). Alas, she is now his second brother's (Louis Cheung) girlfriend. Due to his ego, the eldest brother decides to accept the pursuits of a girl named Miaomiao (Lin Ming-chen) even though they've just met. Meanwhile, their third brother (Chan Charm Man) and his older girlfriend Josephine (Ivana Wong) who have been dating for many years are also having relationship problems.

Is a feature film that is filmed in a monodrama style in which shows the story from the perspective of the male lead character and unfolds the story like a one-man play. Kim Hyun Joong plays the male lead who perfectly depicts the devilish nature of humans hidden behind his good-looking innocent smile. He brilliantly portrays the cold-blooded man who reveals his horrid devilish nature from the delicate tremors of a man who suffers from a broken heart.

Kaneda Shotaro (Ikematsu Shosuke), our hero, is a normal boy who lives alone with his mother, following the mysterious disappearance of his scientist father. The pair move around a lot because of Shotaro’s mother’s job as a cooking instructor, and Shotaro is having a hard time adjusting to life at school, but no more than an average, slightly maladjusted kid. One beautiful sunny day, a ferocious giant robot called Black Ox appears and begins destroying the city, endangering many inhabitants including Shotaro’s mother. As it turns out, Shotaro’s father and grandfather both worked on a World War II-era project with the goal of creating a giant robot. Tetsujin-28, the final prototype, is now the only force capable of stopping Black Ox (if we’ve learned anything from anime, it’s that you fight fire with fire, and giant robots with giant robots), and Shotaro is now the only one capable of controlling Tetsujin-28.

On a warm spring day Min-soo, a small boy, meets tall and broad-shouldered Seok-yi inside a bus. Min-soo keeps looking at the intimidating boy whose sharp eyes are hidden under his baseball cap. Min-soo's heart starts beating. What will happen to Min-soo and Seok-i ?

Bunka Ichijo is a graduate student with an IQ of 200 who tries to investigate the strange deaths happening nationwide after people supposedly watched a cursed video and her younger sister also did the same out of curiosity.

One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window and breaks out of jail. This crime even reaches the ears of Urata Susumu, the chief warden of Kosuge Prison in Tokyo. Urata had been in charge of those sentenced to life in the prison until last year. Although Sakuma is a dangerous person who had also broken out of jail in Aomori, he submits to Urata who is the only person who had treated him kindly in the past. However, three months after escaping from jail, Sakuma shows up at Urata’s house. He has come to complain about the inhumane Akita prison officers. But he is locked up again after Urata notifies the police during an unguarded moment. A year later, Sakuma is sent to Abashiri Prison and Urata is also ordered to transfer as the prison’s chief warden. ~~ Adapted from the novel "Hagoku" (破獄) by Yoshimura Akira

This horror anthology takes its cue from the short fiction of writer Taro Hirai, better known by his nomme du plume Edogawa Rampo - wordplay on the name of legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe. Acclaimed MV director Takeuchi Suguru begins proceedings with Mars Canal, which sees a naked man (Asano Tadanobu) collapse at the edge of a lake that descends, seemingly into the bowels of hell itself. This segment is used to effectively tie together the three main narrative segments of the film. Mirror Hell, directed by Jissoji Akio, sees a detective (Asano again) following a trail of beautiful female corpses back to a mad mirror maker. The Caterpillar (by Sato Hisayasu) sees a limbless war veteran return home only to be systematically abused by his wife. And in Crawling Bugs, by manga artist Kaneko Atsushi, a chauffeur (Asano yet again) becomes obsessed with his actress employer.

Ryujo Hoshiko comes to detective Kindaichi Kosuke’s office with a request. She would like him to investigate an attempt to poison her father, Baron Ryujo Kiyohisa. Hoshiko says this may have something to do with the issues of succession such as the peerage and fortune. Accepting the request, Kindaichi and Hoshiko are driven by a servant of the Ryujo family to the mansion in Nagano Prefecture. On the way, the car comes to an abrupt halt on a country road. They have stumbled across the dead body of Kazuma, the husband of eldest daughter Ryujo Hanayo. After assisting with the investigation, Kindaichi and Hoshiko finally reach the mansion. The police detective Hibino is questioning a grieving Hanayo, her mother Shimako, second daughter Yukiya and her husband Hoshino Natsuhiko. Then another man arrives. It is Akechi Kogoro. He received a warning from the 20-Face Phantom who is targeting the golden statute of a Buddhist deity which is in the Ryujo’s possession. Kindaichi and Akechi end up face to face again. Kindaichi is conscious of it, but Akechi acts relaxed. From the next day, Kindaichi searches for clues in the murder. On the other hand, Akechi pursues the whereabouts of the Phantom. Kazuma, who had been the possible successor of the peerage, had no reason to commit suicide. Everyone in the family believe he was murdered. In a search after that, it is discovered from a storehouse within the mansion that Kazuma vomited blood. There is a high chance it is the same poison administered to the baron. Meanwhile, Shimako has been hastening a proposal of marriage for her third daughter Hoshiko. The other party is Takuzo of Hishikawa Construction. Hoshiko makes an agonising decision in order to protect her family. And then, another incident occurs in the Ryujo family.

Hula Girl is a true story set in the 60s. Stricken by the recession due to the adoption of oil as a primary energy resource, the charcoal mine of Joban, in Iwaki city, decides to relay on tourism and to use the hot springs on its territory to create the 'Joban Hawaian Center', spa resort and theme park of Hawaian inspiration. To fulfill this project, the mine direction creates a hula dance troop, facing the incredulity and even the opposition of the majority of the population.

Hula Girl tells the struggle of those young women who chose to enter the dance troop.

The film tells the story of the snake demon Liqing who charms all living beings. In order to monopolize Wang Sheng, who fell in love at first sight, she enters Wang Sheng's house by any means, and designs to "swap skins" with Wang Sheng's wife Xu Pan. But Liqing did not expect that her actions repeatedly disobeyed her mother-in-law, who collects men's souls, and her selfishness completely angered her, causing Wang Sheng to be in danger again and again. , Can the love between the two continue?

Adapted from the story "Painted Skin"(画皮) in the collection "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio"(聊斋志异) by Pu Song Ling (蒲松龄).

Yuji has a fear of water and is unable to swim. One day, circumstances lead Yuji to attend a swimming class taught by Shizuka. Yuji takes lessons at Shizuka's swimming class. Shizuka cheers Yuji to learn swimming, but it's not easy for him to overcome his fear of water.

The story of a couple who fell in love since young. When they were about to realize their wish from school uniform to wedding dress, suddenly the heroine disappeared without saying goodbye. What happened behind the disappearance of the heroine?

Kasugai Ken has been deserted by his wife, because he was absorbed in a game. One day, missing child robot Tang appears in front of him.

Adapted from the novel "A Robot in the Garden" (ロボット・イン・ザ・ガーデン) by Deborah Install (デボラ・インストール).

Sequel to Kingdom (2019).

Shiino Tomoyo has stood by her friend Mariko through years of abuse, abandonment, and depression. However horrific her circumstances, their friendship has been the one reassuring constant in Mariko’s life—and Tomoyo’s too. That is, until Tomoyo is utterly blindsided by news of Mariko’s death. In life, Tomoyo felt powerless to help her best friend out of the darkness that ultimately drove her over the edge. Now, Tomoyo is determined to liberate Mariko’s ashes for one final journey together to set free her dear, broken Mariko.

Adapted from the manga series "My Broken Mariko” (マイ・ブロークン・マリコ) by Hirako Waka (平庫ワカ).