Asian Drama

Doll Bride (2024)

In 1598, the seven-year Imjin War nears an end as Wae invaders prepare to withdraw from Joseon. Admiral Yi Sun-shin leads an allied fleet of Joseon and Ming ships to annihilate the Wae army. Joseon, Ming, and Wae forces clash at Noryang Strait, the deadly sea where Admiral Yi fights his last valiant battle.

(Source: HanCinema)

Duration: 2 hr. 33 min.

After suffering from serial paranormal events, a wealthy family living in LA summons a young rising shaman duo Hwa Rim and Bong Gil to save the newborn of the family. Once they arrive, Hwa Rim senses a dark shadow of their ancestor has latched on the family in a so-called 'Grave Calling'.

In order to exhume the grave and relieve the ancestor, Hwa Rim seeks help from top-notch geomancer Sang Deok and mortician Yeong Geun. To their dismay, the four find the grave at a shady location in a remote village in Korea. Unaware of the consequences, the exhumation is carried out, unleashing a malevolent force buried underneath.

(Source: showbox.co.kr)

Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Hana is a high school student. Her parents suddenly died in an accident. Since then, Hana doesn't have any hope to live. One day, a man introduces himself to Hana as an agent from a special government agency. He asks Hana to talk about a dream she. She is confused by what he talked about. On that night, Hana has a strange dream.

Having been betrayed in her latest relationship, Ji Soo believes that people's garbage reveals their true colors. One day, she comes across garbage that's been neatly sorted and discarded, which immediately piques her interest. The person who did such a good job is none other than her next-door neighbor, Woo Jae. She grows curious about him and goes as far as collecting clues found in his trash to amass the information to get closer to him. As they get to know each other, Woo Jae's warm-hearted and friendly temperament allows her to open up little by little. Then a chance meeting with his ex-girlfriend, Se Ra, hurts Ji Soo's feelings. Unable to trust Woo Jae again, Ji Soo treats him with cold indifference. Woo Jae becomes troubled by Ji Soo's sudden change of attitude. One night, he sees Ji Soo enter the apartment building with a trash bag in her hand and follows her. They have a fight, and the bag bursts open, exposing Ji Soo's secret. After that day, Ji Soo's apartment seems to remain empty.

Sen no Rikyu is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences upon the Japanese tea ceremony. With his elegant esthetics, Sen no Rikyu is favored by the most powerful man in Japan Toyotomi Hideyoshi and becomes one of his closest advisors. Due to conflicts, Toyotomi Hideyoshi then orders Sen no Rikyu to commit seppuku (suicide).

Adapted from the novel "Rikyu ni Tazuneyo" by Kenichi Yamamoto.

Kasuga Takao is a boy who loves reading books, particularly Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. A girl at his school, Saeki Nanako, is his muse and his Venus, and he admires her from a distance. One day, he forgets his copy of Les Fleurs du Mal in the classroom and runs back alone to pick it up. In the classroom, he finds not only his book but Saeki's gym uniform. On a mad impulse, he steals it.

Now everyone knows "some pervert" stole Saeki's uniform, and Kasuga is dying with shame and guilt. Furthermore, the weird, creepy, and friendless girl of the class, Nakamura, saw him take the uniform. Instead of revealing it was him, she recognizes his kindred deviant spirit and uses her knowledge to take control of his life. Will it be possible for Kasuga to get closer to Saeki, despite Nakamura's meddling and his dark secret? What exactly does Nakamura intend to do with him?

When the emperor’s health was in near-death condition, General Bai Yu finally marries Princess Shengning. But Empress Dowager’s order forbade them tp sleep with each other. After examination by the imperial physician, the emperor died of rapid aging, and Bai Yi must to start investigation

In 1161, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty was split, and Jin Zhuwan Yan Liang invaded and occupied the Central Plains. The People in the Central Plains could not bear the harsh crushing and rose up to fight back.

Young Eon, an innocent girl-next-door type who has a remarkable talent for singing. When her best friend Sun Min shows up at the music room, Young Eon has to decline her offer to hang out because she wants to continue practicing. Of course, spooky things start to happen when Young Eon is left alone in the school, a fact which culminates in our heroine getting killed in a gruesome, yet slightly hilarious way - death by paper cut. Or is that actually what happens?

Kasagi Kozo (Sorimachi Takashi), a city assembly member and also the nephew of the mayor, Tayama Yotaro (Issei Ogata), receives a call from his mother about his uncle’s death. The very diligent mayor had suddenly disappeared while on official business. A few days later, his dead body is discovered at a hot spring resort. The mayor has been absent from the assembly for six days without prior notice. At a regular session at the Yokogawa City Hall, jeers about the mayor fly back and forth and it gets chaotic inside. The mayor’s secretary, Yazaki, is hounded. Yazaki has been wondering about something the mayor had abruptly said to him while observing a classic concert. “I wish to skip tomorrow’s session because I suddenly recalled something I have to do.” Furthermore, he had called the hot spring resort he was headed to “Shimagawa Onsen”, which made Yazaki suspect that it was not his first time going to that town. With the help of the mayor’s housekeeper, Tezuka Sumiko (Baisho Mitsuko), Kasagi who doubts that his strait-laced uncle would have excused himself from work for a private matter, cleans up the belongings in his room after his death. That is when Kasagi finds a diary and learns from its contents that his uncle was besotted with a woman called Fujishima Yoshiko (Kimura Tae)! Is there a connection between the details in the diary and his uncle’s disappearance?

Tells the story of a lawyer named Jung In trying to prove her mother’s innocence and uncover the secrets of a small village with the help of the local mayor. Her mother, Hwa Ja was accused of murder after the rice wine was poisoned at her husband’s funeral, but she is suffering from memory loss and cannot defend herself.