Asian Drama

Lost in Tomb (2024)

Focuses on two insomniac schoolmates, a boy named Ganta and a girl named Isaki. Both worry about their constant lack of sleep. After a chance meeting in the school's observatory-turned-storage room, the two share secrets, and begin having an unusual connection.

While investigating a drug-trafficking app, “Monster Cop” Ma Seok Do and his team discover a connection between the app’s developer, who was murdered in the Philippines, and an illegal online gambling organization. Meanwhile, in the Philippines, Baek Chang Ki is controlling the Korean online illegal gambling market and spreading terror with kidnap, assault and murder. His partner, the IT genius Jang Dong Cheol, is planning an even larger scheme in Korea itself. To put an end to the escalating threat, Detective Ma expands his operation by proposing an unexpected alliance… The fourth installment in the Roundup series.

(Source: Berlinale.de)

Release dates: Feb 23, 2024 (Festival)

Duration: 1 hr. 49 min.

Tezuka Osamu’s beloved manga, Black Jack, is being remade into another Jdrama, this time starring Issei Takahashi. Manga synopsis: Many of the tales feature Black Jack undertaking altruistic acts, seldom receiving acknowledgment. He frequently heals the impoverished and downtrodden without charge or imparts lessons in humility to the arrogant. Some narratives conclude with a virtuous individual enduring adversity, often facing unavoidable demise, in order to rescue others.

What does it take to form a women’s Olympic national ice hockey team? A few middle-aged women, a middle school student, and maybe even a North Korean defector? Kang Dae Woong is tasked with pulling together a women’s national ice hockey team in the hopes representing South Korea in the Winter Olympics. What he is able to assemble is a hodgepodge group of women -- Lee Ji Won, Park Chae Kyung, Go Young Ja, Jo Mi Ran, Kim Ga Yeon, and Shin So Hyun -- who can barely skate, let alone strike a hockey puck. Can this lackluster group form a team to even dream of making it to the Olympics?

Based on Liao Zhai's fantasy stories. In the world of Raksha where beauty and ugliness are reversing, one cannot look at the face, but fight for strength, and finally reap true love

A group of friends mistake two harmless individuals for murderers during a trip to the forest, leading to series of events that turns serious by the minute, putting them all in danger.

While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and chased by the law. Mean-while, one of his henchmen in an attempt to raise money for the Boss gambles away not only all their funds, but their clothing as well. Jirocho, famed for his honesty and integrity must take on the challenge of rival gangs while trying to elude the government's officials at the same time. Things really heat up when the most famous of all Yakuza Bosses, Chuji of Kunisada gets involved. Will he team up with his old friend or is gang warfare about to erupt?

Check Out: The Movie (2023)

The single father Li Chang Feng resolutely embarked on the road of revenge after his daughter was abused and killed by several minors.

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Adapted from the novel "The Miracles of the Namiya General Store" (ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟) by Keigo Higashino (东野圭吾).

Duration: 1 hr. 47 min.

Ratings: 6.6

Jin Tian, a young woman who recently got dumped by her fiance and lost her grandmother, Chen Lanxin. Feeling heartbroken, she travels to Prague, the place where her grandmother once spent years of her life. In her grandmother's belongings she finds a letter from 1970. In Prague, Jin Tian meets Peng Zeyang, a young single father who lives with his daughter and mother. The two develop a mutual attraction during their journey on searching Josef Novak, her grandmother's past lover.

Kikansha Sensei, based on the popular novel by Ijuin Shizuka, is an inspiring movie about a teacher and his young students. The setting of the story is a small island in Japan's Seto Inland Sea. Sakaguchi Kenji, the star of the film, is an actor and model whose popularity has been on constant rise, having appeared in various commercials and television dramas like hit series Pride. In his big screen debut, Sakaguchi takes on an extremely difficult role and handles it with poise and passion. The director is Hiroki Ryuichi, whose 2003 masterpiece Vibrator won five awards at the Yokohama Film Festival, including one for co-star Terajima Shinobu. Kikansha Sensei gives Hiroki, known for his mastery of direction, an opportunity to explore new territories of the human condition. It also gives Hayashi Asuca, an incredible 14-year-old, a chance to showcase her talent performing the theme song. Hayashi's powerful female vocals flowing in the background enhance the thalassic beauty of Inland Sea and island chains. The story takes place sometime in the late 50's to early 60's. One day, a young man named Yoshioka Seigo (Sakaguchi) arrives at the only elementary school on a small island in the Seto Inland Sea to become a temporary teacher. When the kids encounter their new burly teacher and discover that he is a mute, they quickly tag him with the nickname “Kikansha Sensei (Teacher Locomotive).” Initially, many of the grownup islanders are wary about hiring the mute teacher; but the kind-hearted Yoshioka slowly gains the acceptance of the adults and the love of the children. However, one day, tragedy strikes...