Asian Drama

Han Jin Woo, South Korea’s top medical examiner, he leads a team of forensic medicine experts as they try to solve hard-to-crack homicides and other major crimes and put the perpetrators behind bars. But can Jin Woo solve all of the tough cases that come before him or will a case be too difficult even for him to solve?

Uno Meiko is the daughter of parents who run a western style restaurant in Tokyo. She marries and moves to Osaka with her husband. Meiko experiences cultural differences between Tokyo and Osaka, as she lives as a mother and wife in Osaka.

Comment by Aaron Gerow The Daily Yomiuri, 8 July 1999 It is commonplace to mourn the inability of contemporary youth to communicate. Lost in their virtual realities of video games and cellular phones, they seem unable to handle people of flesh and blood--other than perhaps through random violence. It is as if they cannot establish contact because they don't even acknowledge the existence of their conversation partner. Aoyama Shinji has always maintained an ambiguous stance toward this image. The teenage hero of Helpless (1996), like so many Aoyama heroes, seemed to confirm this media stereotype by resorting to violence as a means of contact. Yet he, too, develops a moral code based precisely on protecting others. The young man in An Obsession ("Tsumetai chi," 1997) also goes on a killing spree, which culminates in the death of his lover and himself, but that couple's demise through mutual consent represents--at least to each of them--the only confirmation of the love and existence of the other. Always maintaining a distance from these characters, Aoyama appears to simultaneously confirm, doubt and offer a solution to problems often stereotypically viewed by the media. This tricky stance becomes more complicated in Shady Grove, if only because, as a love romance, it is his first film without any killing. Of course, An Obsession showed that the connection between love and violence is sometimes greater than we think, but Shady Grove, with none of the noirish wit of Aoyama's other romantic film, Wild Life (1997), is closer to the realm of the trendy drama (the title sparks memories of Fuji TV's Nemureru mori). Fujio Rika (Kurita Rei) is a bright young woman so set on marrying her ideal (i.e., rich, tall and handsome) boyfriend Ono Seiichi (Sekiguchi Tomohiro), an up-and-coming executive, that she descends into an almost neurotic state of shock when he suddenly dumps her. Drunk one night, she begins calling people randomly on her cell phone, until one, Kono Shingo (Arata), finally responds. But she seems unable to follow the advice that he or self-help books give; she confronts Ono at his apartment, threatens to commit suicide and hires a private investigator to follow him. Not only Rika, but also Ono and Kono are extremely self-centered. Rika is so set on her plans that she ignores Ono's input; when Ono finally decides to marry her, it is only because it is necessary for promotion in his company. Kono, a publicist at a movie distributor, is so unsure of himself that he takes the extreme opposite tact of insisting he is always right. These may not be the rampaging teens of Helpless, but these yuppies still seem to conform to the stereotype of solipsistic and uncommunicative young Japanese. Aoyama's assertion, however, is that even these three problem cases can find a solution by coming to terms with their own identities through recognizing how others see them. Just as Rika uses her cell phone, the bane of contemporary youth culture to many, as her means of reaching out, Aoyama insists today's youth can establish their own communication if given the chance. Even this solution, however, would be trite if Aoyama had not decided to throw a couple of wrenches into the works. For instance, 80 percent of Shady Grove (mostly the scenes showing the everyday life of the characters) is shot on digital video, giving a grainy quality that Aoyama has associated with his view of reality. Against these images, the film presents scenes of the eponymous grove shot on 35mm film, functioning as a dreamlike place of repose that first Rika, and then Kono, desire. This apparent reality-vs-dream opposition becomes complicated at the end when Rika and Kono finally unite in the forest (a place from Rika's childhood itself supposedly bulldozed under years ago) in a crisp 35mm film image. Is their union--and their solution--then dream or reality? Another problem is that the narrator of the movie, speaking throughout about the internal states of Rika and Kono, ends up being the voice of the private investigator who could not possibly know such things. This impossibility at the center of the film's narration reflects Aoyama's ambiguous stance, spanning, as it does, the real and the unreal, the conventional and the unconventional, as well as the often contradictory genres of trendy drama, social problem movie, comedy and art film. What, then, do we make of Shady Grove? Much of the dialogue seems like something we have heard before, but Aoyama skillfully shoots it with slow camera movements or long takes that give us the opportunity to work with the film on our own rather than have the director's views imposed on us. Shady Grove works if we can take the images and relate them to our own lives. It is our cinematic opportunity to define ourselves through the lives of others.

37-year-old Hasumi Rika is the customer centre supervisor at a medium-sized mail order company. Her father has passed away and because her younger sister married first, she lives in the family home with her mother. She has always thought to herself that it is her part to look after her mother Tomoko in her old age.

One day, Rika is invited by her yoga instructor Kiyota Etsuko to attend a marriage hunting party and finds herself paired with Sakamoto Eikichi, a man who does not even maintain his nostril hair. Meanwhile, Tomoko suddenly declares that she is remarrying. Worried about her mother, Rika accesses the marriage hunting website she has used. She is initially doubtful but arranges to meet a man who sent her an email. She gradually gets into the “marriage hunting market” and becomes involved in it. At first, she makes light of it, thinking that a person like herself will be able to find a good partner immediately. But she sees with her own eyes the marriage hunting situation of a female around 40 and is made to realise her own value on the “market”.

However, her competitive spirit and the encouragement of fellow marriage hunters makes her continue marriage hunting. As Rika does so, she learns what kind of person she is, what she truly wants and what really matters in life. Just as she is starting to look once again at the marriage and future that she wishes for …

For the past 2 years, Prosecutor Takemura Ririko has worked in the Yokohama District Public Prosecutor’s Office. Ririko, who is a hard worker and has a strong sense of justice, is not good at her job. Ririko grows as a prosecutor and a woman after being in charge of multiple cases.

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Kim, a 15-year-old teenager, is having the worst year of her life. She has not quite come to terms with her mother's death a couple of years ago and has problems adjusting to her new school. At this time, her father Choon has decided to remarry Na, who hails from a remote village in Indonesia. Na experiences a lot of hostility in her new home, from Kim, her mother-in-law Mrs Lee and the maid Rosa. Further, it seems that her arrival has sparked off a series of spooky incidents at home. Things improve when Na becomes pregnant. Mrs Lee - who longs for another grandchild - starts treating her better, and even cajoles Kim to do the same. Meanwhile, Choon's lackluster career takes a turn for better. Just when all seems rosy, tragedy strikes with Mrs Lee getting terribly injured and it is discovered that Na has brought with her from Indonesia a macabre urn, one which contains a Toyol. When she forces Na to get rid of it, the consequences are tragic and horrifying...

Yuri Saotome is a charismatic beautician who runs a major sports gym and aesthetic salon. Her older brother died in an accident just before his opportunity to achieve a gold medal at the Olympics, so she chose to marry a wrestling gold medalist. After giving birth to four children, she and her husband broke off their marriage, leaving Yuri to raise the kids by herself. With their excellent genes, three of them have been raised as possible candidates for the next Olympic games.

Han Gong Ju is taken to a home in an unfamiliar area. The home belongs to her former high school teacher's mother. The mother wants to know why her son is leaving Han Gong Ju there, even though he promised she will be there for only a week. A police investigation is ongoing back in Han Gong Ju's hometown. Can Han Gong Ju ever escape from her past?

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Qi Yi Tiao is a tabloid reporter who bumps into a superstar by accident, and ends up signing a short term contract with him to be his assistant.

A popular poet, Goku, becomes depressed when his editor jokingly suggests that he is a sell-out.

Sang Man attempts to commit suicide, but he keeps failing every time. In one of his suicidal attempts, he overdoses by medicine and his heart stops. However, he is transported to the hospital and is saved. When he wakes up, he starts seeing ghosts. He visits a shaman to make those ghosts leave him, but he is told that the ghosts will not leave and they will not let him commit suicide either. Sang Man learns that if he helps the ghosts fulfil their unrealized dreams, he would get them to leave him alone and he then can commit suicide. Meanwhile, Sang Man meets a nurse Jung Yun Soo at the hospital and quickly falls in love. But the ghosts start taking over Sang Man's body.

The Story is about a woman named Ji Hyun who had a problem on her job so she transferred in a broadcasting company as a scriptwriter. At the first day of her new work, she then discovered her ex-lover Yong Woo is also working in her company as a PD. To prove that she is worth it to be a scriptwriter, she convinced Korea's top star Kang Min to work with her, only then she realized there's a twist at the end. Will she fall to the arrogant and womanizer top star Kang Min or will she go back to her failed relationship with PD Yong Woo? (~www.soompi.com)

Ho Goo has a twin sister Ho Gyeong. He has tried to pass the civil service examination, but has failed for 7 years. He also has never dated in his life. One day, he meets Do Hee. She was the most popular girl back in his high school days. She is a member of the national swimming team and has a burning desire to win. She also talks like one of the guys. They spend the night together, but the next morning he finds a baby next next to him and Do Hee is gone. After Ho Goo meets Do Hee again, he becomes involved in a complicated romantic relationship and a dangerous friendship.

Minchan working in hoseuteuba happened just like they know the facts and tycoon and friend 3 years Kyung Jun-ki, Bongsu and putting together the coolest room Salon squeeze the mission to hit a fraud Madame Kim. Madam Kim conglomerate do not know the situation and called the La Madame Madame Choi Kyung Min 3 years (?) - To skip to the spine of-fact minchan To hire an entertaining squeeze albasaeng planning essential to the soul. Only two sides are unpretentious to simulate eopchirak dwichirak winner eventually also spread this new journey with no losers.

Qingyuan rivers and lakes within the first month a large green Xiepai Church Daughter suddenly made miserable night massacre, recruited Leilie is being sucked into a mummy, caused a sensation throughout the lakes, rivers and lakes rumors "magic soldiers come...

Set within the backdrop of an emergency room at a hospital. Kang Jae-In (Hwang Jung-Eum) is the heiress of Ikhyo Foundation, which owns a medical university and five hospitals, but Jae-In is unaware that she is the heiress. Jae-In only cares about her ex-boyfriend.

A soldier-turned-high school teacher uses unusual methods to reach to a class of poor students, while dealing with a greedy entrepreneur and his gang of fighters as well as the government.

To pursue her dreams, Sakurai Kazumi (Wakui Emi) quits her job and goes to New York to study jewelry design, against the objections of her naggy and stubborn but well-meaning father (Takeda Tetsuya). As part of remaking herself, she changes from spectacles to contact lenses, even though she has problems adapting to them. When she accidentally drops her contact lenses, a mysterious man helps prevent them from being stepped on, but he walks away before she can talk to him. Some years pass, and Kazumi is on a plane home after receiving a letter from her brother Taku saying their father is critically ill. She has morning sickness and has some run-ins on the plane with a sloppily-dressed man, and it is only when she drops her contacts and the man helps her in a similar way that she recognises him (Sorimachi Takashi). She chases after him and asks, "would you like to do some work (arubaito)?" It turns out that Kazumi in her last letter from New York had written that she was in a relationship with someone and that they might soon marry, but since then she has broken up with him, and she didn't want to make her father upset by coming home alone. The man, a freelance journalist named Yoshimi Kaoru, agrees to pretend to be her fiancé. On reaching home, Kazumi discovers that her father is not actually on his deathbed (he just had minor surgery), and everyone discovers that Taku had written that letter back to Kazumi where their father says he's happy about the relationship. But the biggest shock comes when Kazumi admits that she's pregnant, and that she wants to have the baby...

Girls killed by evil boys come back from hell and fight as a Ghost Squad to revenge!

Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge...

In 2006 Oh! My God came out of nowhere to become a surprise box office hit. The raucous comedy returns to the big screen just as suddenly in 2009 for Oh! My God 2. Popular comedy actor Choi Sung Kook, a familiar face from movies like Sex is Zero and Master Kims, is back as philandering hero Im Jung Hwan, but this time his character is a taxi driver. Rising starlet Lee Young Eun (Summer Whispers) plays his sassy romantic counterpart, along with Ahn Moon Sook and Jo Sang Gi, who was also in Oh! My God. Directed by Hwang Seung Jae, Oh! My God 2 is every bit as funny and entertaining as its predecessor. As heir to Korea's biggest taxi company, playboy Im Jung Hwan (Choi Sung Kook) spends money like water and stirs up trouble in droves. Life is totally great for Jung Hwan until his mother (Kim Hyung Ja) suddenly cracks down and takes away his money. What's more, she orders him to start driving a taxi to earn his keep! Jung Hwan, who's never worked a day in his life, can only comply, but he keeps angering his customers and even tries to put up his taxi as collateral for a loan. When Jung Hwan's first passenger, Eun Ji (Lee Young Eun), runs off without paying, it marks the fateful beginning of a bickering romance between the poor girl and the down-on-luck heir in disguise. But it's only a matter of time before Jung Hwan's old ways come creeping back!

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Golf King comes back with the exciting third season! Celebrities, from avid golf lovers to beginners, dream of being the best celebrity golfer. Kim Mi-hyun, the LPGA winner and golf legend, teaches and trains them. And the trainees have a weekly match with a team of actors, models, professional golfers, etc. The winning team can donate the prize with their name.

Mi-kyung drives a van for a private tutor institute. Yi-man works part time at a local supermarket. Bong-sun lives with her sick children, and Eun-ji is being chased down because of her father's debt. Nothing can get any worse for these women and they only dream to live a simple life in the future, but one day, they get themselves into a big mess when Hyae-ran runs off with their money. Mi-kyung gathers up others to catch her and get their money back, and this is how the 'Bongchon 3-dong Girl Scout' was organized. As they fall deep into a cruel underground world, the situation turns for the worse. 

A high school boy and girl: Itsuki Kamiyama and Yoru Morino are "GOTH," who have an obsessive interest in the dark side of humankind. One day, Yoru picks up a note in a cafe that serves as the meeting ground for geeks. Included on the note are all the details about the bizarre murder cases that have occurred in many places recently. Intrigued by the cases, she asks Itsuki to go to one of a homicide scene, where they go in search of an unfound dead body.

Legend has it that more than 2,000 years ago, the Kingdom of Nangnang possessed a mystical Ja Myung Drum which will sound by itself when enemies invade. In reality, Ja Myung Go does not represent the drum but instead, is embodied by the King's daughter, Princess Ja Myung.

Princess Ja Myung and Princess Nak Rang are born on the same day and time to the same father but different mothers. It is predicted that one princess will become the nation's saviour while the other will bring the entire nation down. Using her family's powerful background, Princess Nak Rang's mother successfully establishes her daughter as the savior princess while Princess Ja Myung, who is branded the princess of destruction, escapes death with the help of her mother and grows up among the common folk.

Third year high school student Haru Hiiragi  is popular with his peers, but isn't interested in his studies or love. Koto Harukawa  is first year high school student who is the target of bullying. One day, Haru sees Koto getting bullied and comes to her defense. Haru and Koto become friends and start their own "Kingyo Club" (Goldfish Club) as their safe haven. Problems from the outside still threatens their relationship.

Shi Miao hates her brother Shi Fen. So, she makes a birthday wish: She wants her brother gone. However, she did not expect the wish come true.

Immortal Tatsu the legendary yakuza who single-handedly defeated a rival gang with a lead pipe, is a name known to strike fear in both hardened police officers and vicious criminals. Soon after his sudden disappearance, he resurfaces with a slight change in profession. Now equipped with an apron, Tatsu has given up violence and is trying to make an honest living as a house husband. While adapting to mundane household tasks, Tatsu finds that being a house husband has its own challenges, from the battlefield known as supermarket sales to failures in the kitchen. Despite living peacefully, misunderstandings seem to follow him left and right. Gokushufudou follows the daily life of the comically serious ex-yakuza as he leaves behind his dangerous previous life to become a stay-at-home husband. ~~ Adapted from the webcomic series "Gokushufudo" by Kousuke Oono.

Chain, a young projectionist, decides to join Yod's mission to illegally film a new release horror movie. Chain falls asleep during the screening and wakes up to find out that Yod has already disappeared and left his camera behind. Chain starts to feel the fear creeping inside him.