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.

A playboy's life changes after he met and slept with a girl who hasn't turned 18 yet.

Two inmates break out of a prison only to discover afterwards that they are up for parole. Desperate to get their lives back on track, they realise their best move is to break back into the prison, without being noticed.

Yang Jing Hua is a young man heir to a famous family of exorcists, but now he is poor and left to himself since the death of his parents. This young comic book owner tries to survive day by day, but bad luck is still on him. One night he meets a rich and handsome exorcist named Duanmu Xi while he was going to eliminate an existing spirit. Yang Jing Hua runs away, but the next time Duanmu Xi appeared right in front of him, Yang Jing Hua was already dead because of getting hit by a heavyweight. Yang Jing Hua makes a contract with Duanmu Xi and his new life begins.

Young-Hoon (Kim Seung-Woo) works for his mother’s restaurant, but he prefers hanging out with his friends. He then meets Yeon-A (Jang Jin-Young), a tough lady that works in a room salon as a barmaid. She takes the initiative by coming to his restaurant, when he is working, and propositions him in a playful way. They become a couple, but their relationship is always volatile. They fight constantly, but the next moment kiss and make up. Meanwhile, Young-Hoon already has another girlfriend, who is his finance! When his mother learns about his new girlfriend Yeon-A, she pushes her son to get married to his finance. Even after he marries his finance, Young-Hoon continues his relationship with Yeon-A. When Young-Hoon’s wife gets pregnant, Yeon-A starts to feel insecure about their relationship and takes matter into her own hands. She decides to call Young-Hoon’s wife and tell her everything about their relationship.

After his mothers death, 12-year-old Jaya (Iqbal S. Manurung) is sent to his father, Johar (Didi Petet), who works as a supervisor on a jermal (a fishing platform perched on log stilts in the middle of the sea). Johar is...

A group of friend determined to express themselves decide to build thier own gunpowder rocket to compete at an annual festival held in their village.

Higashigaoka Junior High School is in turmoil as one of the pupils, Noguchi, who had been bullied, attempted suicide last term. On the first day of the new term, a substitute teacher arrives to take the second year class. When the teacher, Murauchi (Hiroshi Abe), introduces himself, the pupils are surprised by his stutter. He has a speech impediment. Unable to speak eloquently, Murauchi faces his pupils with 'words of truth'. His first instruction to the pupils is to return Noguchi's desk and chair to the original place in the classroom. Every morning Murauchi greets the empty desk, "Good morning, Noguchi." This causes a ripple beyond the classroom and among other teachers and parents, but Murauchi will not stop doing it. Eventually the day comes when Murauchi must leave.