Asian Drama

In the deep of the night, Indonesian migrant fisherman Abdul-Adl brutally murders the captain and his family. The appointed indigenous public defender Bao Ju treats the case with contempt. His team also includes Jin Ping, who has a bright future but also a manipulative father, and Leena, an Indonesian nurse who is harassed by her employer. They team up, translating for and defending the murderer. Bao Ju’s team finds evidence that implicates Zhen Xiong, the owner of a fishery group. Witness collusion, a biased judge and disagreements on mental evaluation worsen the situation. Bao Ju goes to his ex-lover Qing Xue, the Minister of Justice, for help. Jin Ping and Leena become intimate. Bao Ju’s team finds the key witness, Suprianto, but he disappears after receiving death threats. Overwhelmed by setbacks, Bao Ju loses the case. To overturn the decision, Bao Ju has to regroup, but more obstacles appear. Bao Ju discovers evidence that can halt the death penalty, but Qing Xue approves the execution. With limited time, Bao Ju must come up with a perfect solution to save his client.

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Adapted from the novel "Ba Chi Men De Bian Hu Ren" (八尺门的辩护人) by Tang Fu Rui (唐福睿).

Zhou Xin Xing is a young woman who has been through a lot. Her first marriage, to a dermatologist, ended in failure. She had once dreamed of opening a French-style patisserie and living a long, happy life with her husband. But those dreams are now in tatters. She has had to shelve her dreams of opening her own shop, after a death in the family, followed by financial difficulties. She takes a job at a dessert store named Les Années Lentes.

And it is here that she encounters Xia Tian Yu, the third-generation heir of the Yucheng business group. His family wants him to become the group’s CEO, but Xia Tian Yu has no intention of doing so. Although he seems cold and uncaring, he actually has a warm heart, and is suffering due to a traumatic childhood incident. He also ends up working at Les Années Lentes. Eventually, he begins to develop feelings for Zhou Xin Xing. And the duo resolves to enter a prestigious dessert-making contest. But love rivals are not far away, with long-term admirers of both Zhou Xin Xing and Xia Tian Yu ready to make their moves! Will this unlikely duo find love – or will societal pressures take their toll?

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Wang Fa Cai is a famous chef with three sons. The eldest Zi Yao inherited his exquisite craftsmanship and became the main chef of the "Consumer Pavilion" at the age of thirty, enjoying a high reputation in the chef world. The second son, Zi Wen, just wanted to be his brother's right hand. As soon as the third son Ziyi graduated elementary school, he got sent abroad. Ziyao and Ziwen focused on cooking. Ziyi learned to manage the restaurant. The three sons performed their duties, and the brothers worked together for the family business.

Episodes: 63

Duration: 60 min.

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Ratings: 6.8

Cheng Mei, Gua Ju, Qu Shou, Xing Hua, and Song Gang are friends who met in a student association in university. Because of love, they all had a taste of heartbreak! From students to graduates entering society, facing obstacles that revolve around same-sex relationship, workplace bullying, female autonomy, extramarital affairs, and May-December romance, how do they maintain their friendship and resolve all the challenges that arise from life and love?

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Adapted from the manga series "Asunaro Hakusho" (あすなろ白書) by Fumi Saimon (柴門ふみ).

Episodes: 15

A love story revolves around the 9th Princess of Western Liang as she journeys to the Central Plains to fulfill a marriage alliance with the Crown Prince.

Having received overwhelming love and admiration as the 9th Princess, Xiao Feng is forced to leave the life that she has known in order to become the Crown Princess. Her husband, the black-bellied Crown Prince, holds the highest position second only to one, the Emperor. However, the Eastern Palace is the most dangerous place to be. For political reasons, the Prince has no choice but to marry the Princess from a foreign land. He has his own favored concubine while she has her own life. Two parallel lines begin to intersect in a place fraught with danger and deadly power play and buried somewhere deep inside are memories that have yet to resurface.

Can a woman who can’t remember her past and a man who is trying to hide his true identity break a swim team’s losing streak? Yu Die (Mandy Wei) was a genius child prodigy who lost everything she loved. Yu Die’s mother drowned while trying to save Yu Die and, in one very bad day, Yu Die lost her mother, her memory and her ability to swim. Years later, she crosses paths with Gao Hai Fei (Kingone Wang), the CEO of a multibillion corporation. Intrigued by Yu Die’s lost memories, Hai Fei hides his true identity from her and gets mistaken for a professional part-time worker who is a jack-of-all-trades. Yu Die asks Hai Fei for his help with the “Sea Horse” Men’s Swim Team, which has never been able to win a meet and is the laughing stock of the sport of swimming. With Hai Fei searching for a “mermaid” crush from his past, will he agree to help Yu Die turn the losing swim team around? “Swimming Battle” is a 2016 Taiwanese drama series.

Can a woman who can’t remember her past and a man who is trying to hide his true identity break a swim team’s losing streak? Yu Die (Mandy Wei) was a genius child prodigy who lost everything she loved. Yu Die’s mother drowned while trying to save Yu Die and, in one very bad day, Yu Die lost her mother, her memory and her ability to swim. Years later, she crosses paths with Gao Hai Fei (Kingone Wang), the CEO of a multibillion corporation. Intrigued by Yu Die’s lost memories, Hai Fei hides his true identity from her and gets mistaken for a professional part-time worker who is a jack-of-all-trades. Yu Die asks Hai Fei for his help with the “Sea Horse” Men’s Swim Team, which has never been able to win a meet and is the laughing stock of the sport of swimming. With Hai Fei searching for a “mermaid” crush from his past, will he agree to help Yu Die turn the losing swim team around? “Swimming Battle” is a 2016 Taiwanese drama series.

Can two childhood friends be forced to marry each other if they can’t find other suitable mates? Pei Zheng Xi (Kingone Wang) and Mo Cheng Zhen (Jennifer Hong) have been friends all their lives and their mothers are also friends. Their mothers have always held out hope that the two would marry, but Zheng Xi and Cheng Zhen feel nothing other than friendship for each other. Zero chemistry. But their mothers have decided that if they cannot find suitable marriage partners by their 32nd birthdays, Zheng Xi and Cheng Zhen will have to marry each other.

Park Jung Min plays Po Xi Huan, a Taiwanese-Korean second-generation chaebol from a Korean company who does not wish to inherit his family business. Kingone Wang is his Taiwanese cousin, Yan Han Xiang, who would gladly take over the company, and who runs the family business division in Taiwan. Han Xiang is a little annoyed that younger cousin is uninterested in taking over the business yet might inherit over him. Xi Huan meets Mi En, a talented pastry chef who has caught the eye of Han Xiang, and gradually falls in love with her. Lia Lee is Chen Ai Lin, the daughter of the owner of a pastry conglomerate in Taiwan and also Mi En's college best friend, who is in love with Han Xiang.

A man loses everything in one day in a tragic car accident. Fang Zhan Cheng lost his fiancée, Liang Luo Han , but he also lost his own eyesight. Devastated by the loss of his fiancée, Zhan Cheng is inconsolable and even refuses a corneal transplant that could restore his vision. But his life takes an unexpected turn when Wang Yu Xi, who looks exactly like his fiancée, is hired to become Zhan Cheng’s day nurse. Another young woman, Xu Ya Ti, receives Luo Han’s heart in a transplant and begins to exhibit many of Luo Han’s mannerisms and personality. Caught between a woman who looks exactly like his beloved dead fiancée and another woman who behaves just like her, what will Zhan Cheng do? “Someone Like You” is a 2015 Taiwanese drama series directed by Chen Rong Hui.

Tong Jia Di needs a life besides work, paying down family debt, and more work. So her best friend Jiang Xiao Nan sneaks in a “Love” coupon in Jia Di's raffle box praying that the lucky guy who draws it will sweep Jia Di off her feet. As it so happens, Huo Yan, the compassionate manager Jia Di has secret crush on, is the lucky guy. But, tho' the prince can exchange the coupon for Cinderella's love, it doesn't mean he will, especially when his devilish younger brother is determined to exchange his “Master/Angel” coupon for her servitude.

Qi Yue played by Rainie Yang is ready to give her love letter to the captain of the basketball team- Shang Yuan Yi(Kingone Wang). However, it ends up in the hands of the devil of the school- Ah Meng played by Mike He. He threatens Qi Yue and demands that he do whatever he asks of her. She agrees because she does not want the love letter to be seen by everyone in the school. She ends up being frustrated with the way Ah Meng bullies her and ends up confessing her love to Yuan Yi. To her surprise, he likes her back. Qi Yue thought that it would be the end of the devil however she finds out that her mom is going to re-marry the principal of her school who is also the father of Ah Meng. She ends up spending a lot of time with Ah Meng and eventually they start liking each other. While this goes on their parents do not know that they are dating but Qi Yue’s mom has some suspicions. What will happen to Ah Meng’s relationship with Qi Yue since their parents are dating one another? Will one couple end up breaking up with the other or will they all date and not care about what other people think about their relationship?

Life doesn’t always allow you to do things in the proper order. Li Xiao Mei is a career woman who works as a manager for a wedding consulting firm. When she finds out that she suffers from a condition that has to be treated by removing her uterus, Xiao Mei finds a sperm donor so that she can have a child before removing her womb. A wedding gown designer, Liu Zi Jun, falls in love with Xiao Mei and tries earnestly to win her over. But Xiao Mei’s unexpected new boss, Huang Shi Jia, develops feelings for her as well. Which suitor will she choose to tie to knot?

On the train to Shenzhen, Hunan ordinary girl met Tam Miu Miu Wan Tong more than eager to live a good life, the two became good friends, started by a dream trip to Shenzhen. Miu Miu Wan Tong Tan and I together in Shenzhen chasing their dreams. Miu Miu and Zhu Xinyu romance proven, finally coming into fruition. Photo by Huang Lili because Miu Miu's true identity by blow, depressed, Miu Miu and Xinyu no use trying to discuss her favor. Contrary Palace Lady appeared on the photo by Huang Lili cynical, inspired her to fight. Gong Lei Fang and his wife in order to compete, regardless of the strength of the family business, the blind expansion of business, resulting in Zhu corporate bankruptcy due to funding strand breaks. Critical moment, kind of Miu Miu to the photo by Huang Lili and Zhu great care. Under her go-between, Zhu Xi to be staying in the family bakery, looking for an opportunity to make a comeback.

When a woman discovers she's pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's child, she decides to return to her hometown to have the baby. There, she meets three men, who each for their own reasons, are also escaping to this town to avoid dealing with their personal problems. Although they are meeting at the worst time in their lives, they help one another learn to be selfless, brave, and trustworthy in love.

Pi Zi and Ying Xiong are two cops who are as different as day and night. One does nothing except for drinking coffee and living a luxurious lifestyle while waiting for information from dubious sources to crack his cases. Another believes law and justice are the pillars of society and is constantly on the street catching criminals... a little overzealously for his superior's liking. When a case brought these two top crime solvers together, sparks flied and a little light peeked into this dark city where the nation's President is on friendly terms with the local triad and twins kill people while drinking milkshake.

Xu Le is a bestselling author who has never left home. After being struck with a case of writer's block, he decides to search for inspiration. He moves into his former classmate, Ma Yong Rui's, five-star hotel and begins a job as a taxi driver hoping that by listening to his passengers, he'll find inspiration for his writing. When he meets Pan Neng Xian, a 24-year-old girl working at the hotel, he discovers there's a spark of inspiration every time he touches her hand. They go from enemies to friends once Neng Xian realizes his writing dilemma and decides to help him. As a taxi driver, Xue Le also encounters another former classmate, Ah Hao, who is also a taxi driver and whom he has not seen for years. Lu Yi, the dream girl that they all wanted in the past, is now a fashion magazine editor and becomes entangled in the friend group.

When the Tai Zi baseball team is thrown out of a competition, it’s in danger of being completely disbanded by a humiliated board of directors. The coach, Ah Nuo, refuses to quietly follow along with the decision and protests until the team is granted three month to win the gold cup at the university championship in order to save their reputation and team. Working towards this goal, Ah Nuo discovers Zhui Feng, a former top pitcher who quit the team after a family accident. Faced with the challenge of convincing Zhui Feng to return and improving his current team members, Ah Nuo refuses to give up.