Asian Drama

A reporter discovers the existence of a "comment unit" while reporting on online public opinion manipulation and encounters a shocking reality while covering them.

(Source: Daum)

Adapted from the novel "Daetkkeulbudae" (댓글부대) by Jang Kang Myung (장강명).

A coastal city in Brazil. Kai arrives from Taiwan for holidays with a broken heart. A broken air conditioner sends her into Fu Ang’s umbrella store. He could become a friend, but the rainy season doesn't arrive and his shop disappears. While looking for Fu Ang, Kai discovers the story of Xiaoxin and a group of Chinese workers in a posh skyscraper. Kai finds herself strangely mirrored in Xiaoxin’s tale.

Adapted from the novel "Novoland: Revival" (九州·龙悸) by Tang Que.

In the Wanli Year of the Ming Dynasty, marauders team up with spies in the imperial court to frame the family of Lord Qiu, Minister of War. However, the youngest daughter Qiu Moyan is rescued by the warrior Zhou Huai'an. Before his death, Lord Qiu hands over the Ming Dynasty's coastal defense plan to his daughter, hoping to entrust it to someone who could shoulder the important responsibility of saving the dynasty. In order to obtain the defense plan, the marauders hunt down Zhou Huai’an and Qiu Moyan. The imperial court also lists the two as the most wanted criminals. To protect the defense plan and the descendant of the Qiu family, Zhou Huai’an looks for Dragon Gate Inn’s boss Jin Xiangyu for help. For the love of her life, Jin Xiangyu hides the defense map in the inn and transforms the inn into a dragon ship that stays away from the martial world, protecting the defense map until the right time comes. Unexpectedly, Qiu Moyan accidentally falls into the hands of the marauders. At the same time, the imperial court also sends Xu Yi, a crime-solving expert, to the ship to arrest Zhou Huai’an and Qiu Moyan. With different agendas, several forces fight to the death on this strange dragon ship.

Duration: 1 hr. 13 min.

A complex story of murder, passion and haunting memories for three estranged brothers and their ailing father. Ilham (Faizal Hussein), Bakar (Pekin Ibrahim) and Adil (Zahiril Adzim) are three estranged half-brothers, sons of the old wayang kulit puppetmaster Pok Eng (Wan Hanafi Su). Ilham is a hitman for a Thai crime syndicate, charged by his keeper Deng (Bront Palarae) with finding a tomoi kickboxer who fled his fight and doesn't necessarily have to bring him back alive. Adil is that kickboxer, reluctantly rescued by his friend Muski (Amerul Affendi) and brought back to his old mentor Pok Wah (Namron). Bakar is scheming to obtain his father's ancestral lands in order to sell it to developers, and has his henchman Jolok (Hushairy Hussein) bribing and threatening anyone who stands in his way. The fractured family converge on their home village - aptly named Bunohan, loosely meaning "murder" - where the spectre of Ilham's mother Mek Yah (Tengku Azura) still haunts the swamps and beaches. Their tale will be one of corruption, betrayal, despair, violence - and yes, murder

Lawyer Chen Zhi Qi, who excels in her work-line, unintentionally finds herself involved in an heinous conspiracy theory that involves her client who is in death row.

Facing doubts by the inmate's family members, especially by Lin Shu, Chen Zhi Qi teams up with police officer Jin Zhi Xiong to investigate the situation, but the already suspicious case is gradually growing stranger and bloodier by the day...

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Golden Escape (2022)

Ppong-Ddol dreams of forming a band. One day, he picks up an old orange cart and this inspires him to name the band "Golden Chariot." Ppong-Ddol invites his neighborhood friends to join the band which they willingly accept. Problem is, they are not that good and they also need money. Ppong-Ddol offers to Chul-Wook the job of becoming the band's manager if he can provide funding for the band. Chul-Wook goes asks his mom for money. Ppong-Ddol’s older brother Dong-Ho visits him for the first time in a lengthy while. They recall the past, including getting kicked out of their family. They blame each other. Both of them are also in need of money. They decide to go see their oldest brother and ask for forgiveness and some money, but their afraid of his fist.

PLOT SUMMARY: Before he portrayed the legendary blind swordsman, Zatoichi, Shintaro Katsu played Suganoichi, a blind court masseur with a dark side. An outcast since birth, he learned from a young age that the only way to get ahead was to take advantage of others. Now an expert con-artist with a heart of coal, Suganoichi is on a vile quest for power, and everyone else will suffer along the way!

Yoo-Jin becomes a temporary teacher for 3 months at a school for troubled students. Her students include Jung-Hoon who was kicked out from the soccer team due to a violent incident and Sung-Ah who lives with her mother from Yanbian, China. Yoo-Jin gets these troubled students to take part in a musical for a talent show hosted by the district office.

Jin wakes up from a nightmare of a traffic accident on. It drives him to the very spot and witnesses an accident, which replicates his dream. He follows the police to the suspect’s home and watches as Ran denies the hit-and-run accusation since she was asleep the entire night. Jin explains his dream to them and asks to be charged instead. He is convinced that there’s an unexplainable connection between the two. They discover that when he dreams, she acts out his dream in her sleep.

Interpol has nothing on ESPY, an elite international law-enforcement agency. Its members have supernormal powers, including telepathy and clairvoyance. Discerning a pattern to the series of political assassinations which have rocked the world, ESPY dispatches its best agents to Istanbul, to counter the efforts of an anti-ESPY organization, masterminded by Ulrov before the Prime Minister of Baltonia is killed. The combined force of the battling telepaths causes natural disturbances around the world including earthquakes and auroras.