Asian Drama

~~ Adapted from the 6th volume in the novel series "Candle in the Tomb" (鬼吹灯) by Zhang Mu Ye (天下霸唱)

This drama is adapted from Mo Yan Chuan's novel of the same name and it tells the story of Tang Xin, a screenwriter who has had a crush on her boss, Tang Yu, for years. But Tang Yu is pursuing her best friend, so she keeps her unrequited feelings silent...until her friend rejects him. Thinking this is finally her chance to be honest about how she feels, Tang Xin confesses. Realizing that there is no possibility between her and Tang Yu, and hurt from his rejection, she chooses to resign and move on. But Tang Xin's departure doesn't sit well with Tang Yu; what will happen between these two as she tries to move on from him and he tries to pull her back?

The Tenpo period near the end of the Edo period. Katsuie's wife, Onobu, struggles to make ends meet, but never ceases to smile innocently. Her husband is Katsu Kokichi. His arms are very strong and she can't say she doesn't like it when asked. Her son, Rintaro, is clever, intelligent, aspiring to study Dutch studies, and eventually saves the people of Edo as "Katsu Kaishu."

The era is the reform of Tenpo. In addition to the noisy world, every time Kokichi brings in trouble, he is confident. Furthermore, Rintaro falls in love with Fukagawa geisha! Katsuya continues to make a fuss.

Ji Soo Ho and Do Hyun Seo, who once dated for six years, meet again as a young rich CEO and a piano instructor who gave up on her dreams. Despite the awkward reunion, the two start piano lessons for their respective purposes. Meanwhile, talented musician, Kei, accepts Soo Ho's offer to work on a collaborative project and invites Hyun Seo as a fellow collaborator. Annoyed with this new partnership, Soo Ho proposes that they stay and work at his house, which causes subtle tension between the three. Soo Ho becomes confused after learning why Hyun Seo left him. Hyun Seo worries about Soo Ho's health, while Kei doesn't hide his feelings for Hyun Seo. Soo Ho and Hyun Seo embark on a bumpy romantic journey full of twists and turns. Will history repeat itself?

(Source: Disney+)

Episodes: 6

"Wednesday Club" is a club of middle children who feel they haven't been accepted, that no one pays them any attention. There are seven members, Kong, Phali, Tam, May, Kun, Mac and Pheem, and one ironclad rule: members may not form romantic relationships with each other in order to maintain amity.

(Source: Thai = GMMTV)

Adapted from the novel "Tukkata Taem Si" (ตุ๊กตาแต้มสี) by Sunantha (สุนันทา).

Episodes: 10

Vikij is a handsome, rich and clever young man with prosopagnosia, which means that he can't recognise faces. For this reason, he decides to hire an assistant to help connect him with the rest of the world. Mirin becomes the girl responsible for that. Will it be possible to have a relationship beyond employer and employee?

(Source: GMMTV)

Episodes: 10

Pudtarn is modern girl whose nature is that of a strong and self-confident woman who is mean to those who treat her badly.

After the demise of her parents through an accident that caused Pudtarn to lose her memories, she only has her aunt, Wiphawee, as her only living relative.

Pudtarn works as a gardner, which leads her to discover a mysterious box one day. Curious, she instructs a worker to open it. However, upon touching the thin paper in the box, Pudtarn suddenly finds herself in a very different location.

As soon as she arrives in this place, she is kicked by a strange man who claims that the paper in the box is actually a scripture called "Kritsana Kali", and it belongs to his family.

Pudtarn needs the scriptures to go back to her world and so she asks for the paper back, but is stopped by the owner of the garden, Rit, who are the sons of Phraya Wisoot and Karakade.

When she realises that she will not be able to return, Pudtarn attempts to learn how to survive in this new place. However, the longer she lives here, the more attached she feels to the place and its people, including her feelings towards Rit — despite people around her telling her that she does not deserve him.

Adapted from the novel "Prom Likit" (พรหมลิขิต) by Mun Krissanakalee.

Actress Li Wei Wei time travels to ancient times and takes the place of the silly princess Li Cai Wei, who is engaged to Shen Hua Jin. But on the day before they are scheduled to marry, he's murdered. Suddenly she finds that they are all stuck in a time loop, and so Hua Jin and Wei Wei try to save him and break the time loop by solving who is targeting him and why.

(Source: Chinese = ent.qianlong.com; ent.qianlong.com)

Episodes: 30

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A story about five youths Xu Weibiao, Lin Zhihua, Zhang Peng, Wang Lei and Yu Nan who grew up in Beijing in the 1980s, and later separate due to differing beliefs.

Mr. Buntawee, the Executive President of Well Fed Sauce, suffers from Alzheimer's Disease and is searching for his grandson, an heir to the family fortune who disappeared twenty years ago and is due to receive 15% company stock on his twentieth birthday in just a few weeks. The company lawyer, Mr. Chaichan, got drunk and offered the patrons in a bar a huge sum of money if they help him locate the missing grandson. Nam's parents, who swindle others for a living, decided to pass off Nam, whom they had stolen from the hospital as a baby, as the missing grandson. To hide her true identity, Nam was required to live and dress as a boy since birth. Pranee, Nam's foster mother, contacted Mr. Chaichan and convinced him that Nam was the missing grandson in order to receive the award money. Tana is the eldest grandson of Mr. Buntawee and takes care of him. He also wants to find the missing heir because he is battling his ambitious Aunt Marisa for control of the company. Tana wants to combine his stock with that owned by his grandfather and the missing heir so that he can keep the company in the family. Tana forms a deep bond with Nam, whom he treats as his brother, and invites him into his home and offers him an executive position at the company. To conceal her true identity, Nam tells Tana that she is a ladyboy. Tana's ex, Lisa, returns from abroad and wants to reconnect with him but this creates tension between the three of them. Grandpa knew from the start that Nam was not his true heir but decided to play along because he loved Nam and because he knew that Nam (and her parents) was his only hope of finding his missing grandson. Will Nam and Tana find the true heir? What will happen to the relationship between Tana, Nam, and Lisa?

Chi Yue is a modern day action movie star who accidentally time travels back in time into the life of a young widow of the Li family who has a stepson and two stepdaughters. Thrust into a role completely foreign to her she begins to get closer to her children and works hard to take care of them. She punishes the vicious relatives who dare to bully the kids. She becomes able to house, clothe, and feed the kids thanks to the successful winery and business she starts. She even teaches her eldest son to hunt and encourages her second daughter to study. In turn the children grow to love and depend on her. But someone is out to harm Chi Yue, causing her to fall into crisis after crisis. Will her modern day thinking save her... or fail her?

Single 38 year old editor and food writer Kikuchi Izumi works for a small publishing company. She hasn't heard from her partner of 10 years in the last 5 months after lending him 2 million yen. After she suddenly receives a call on her phone, she is yelled at by an older woman. The older woman even enters the same cab with her and they are both heading to the same location. By chance, Izumi learns that the older woman is Nakajima Haruko, the owner of a very popular Tokyo beauty clinic.

Adapted from a novel of the same name.

Why did the girl have to die? The mother becomes the tycoon's father's lover... The father becomes the tycoon's wife's hair stylist... The uncle becomes the tycoon's daughter's Korean tutor... And the sister becomes a journalist investigating the tycoon's son... The family of the high school girl disguise themselves to infiltrate the tycoon's life in order to uncover the truth behind their beloved daughter's death. Revealing shocking truths on the way, this is a story about an imposter family tackling mysteries and seeking revenge!

(Source: YTV)

Episodes: 10

By chance, Ma Jia, a doctor from the First Affiliated Hospital of Jiangnan University, joined the 25th Chinese medical team to aid Sanna and went to Africa. Faced with completely different environments and huge cultural differences between China and Africa Ma Jia experienced both persistence and giving up. Adjusting and correcting his mentality, to gradually understand what it means to be a Chinese foreign aid doctor in practice. During the two years of foreign aid, during the physical and mental training, and under the scrutiny of emotions and low spirits, Ma Jia and his partners in the foreign aid medical team were stationed in "Maile Village", experiencing happiness, touching reunions, separations, and exciting experiences.

Best friends Anda and Lalisa grew up together in an orphanage. Realising that Anda is the daughter of wealthy Ramita who's actively searching for her, Lalisa steals Anda's identity and presents herself to Ramita as her daughter. It's at this point that Anda meets Pheem and Anol.

After falling victim to an attack that landed his father in a coma and stole Pheem's sight, Pheem has installed himself near the oraphanage. He and Anda meet and fall in love.

Pheem's cousin Anol is entirely unlike him. While Pheem is warm and loving, Anol is cold, never having recieved love and feelin inferior to Pheem. Anol has been charged with evicting the inhabitants of Anda's orphanage.

(Source: French = Nautiljon.com)

Episodes: 10

A romantic family drama about a divorced couple who broke up 30 years ago out of hate, reuniting as in-laws through their children and overcoming long overdue conflicts and enmity.

(Source: HanCinema)

Episodes: 120

A drama depicting the story of love and marriage that blooms in the turbulent truth game of a woman who lives a life of manipulation and a woman who struggles to uncover and punish lies.

(Source: Korean = Wikipedia)

Episodes: 120

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Episodes: 26

Gi Yun is a clever and good-looking chairman of WJ Entertainment. He is a rich romanticist of the century who seems perfect on the outside, but he is also an ambitious man with a dark secret that he cannot tell others. His wife, Shin Ju Kyung, was able to rise from poverty by marrying Gi Yun, just like Cinderella from the fairytale. She is a perfect mother and a lovely wife with a great career until an unexpected incident steals everything away from her.

Jung Woo Hyuk, a rookie actor at NA Entertainment who continues his acting career after overcoming the misery of his incompetent agency, misses his mentor, Ju Kyung, who suddenly disappeared. At the moment, Seo Hee Jae, who looks just like Ju Kyung, walks into NA Entertainment. Woo Hyuk gets confused when he sees Hee Jae, and she intentionally approaches Gi Yun.

Who destroyed her life, and how will she get back the perfect life she lost?

(Source: Kocowa+)

Episodes: 100

~~ Adapted from the 6th volume in the novel series "Candle in the Tomb" (鬼吹灯) by Zhang Mu Ye (天下霸唱)

The drama tells the story of Xiao Li Ming as the representative of the peace and security of Chinese builders, facing the complexity of social contradictions in the network fraud, investment mine, corporate compliance and other risky challenges, and interest groups to fight to protect the people's peace and happiness.

(Source: cpophome)

Episodes: 45

Bai Shi Zhou, who majored in clinical medicine and was trained by the state, became a rural doctor in Xiancao Village. Li Chang Sheng, an old Chinese medicine doctor in the Xiancao Village Clinic, has been practicing medicine for several generations and is famous far and wide. Soon, two doctors, one old and one young, have launched a battle between Chinese and Western medicine in a clinic.

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Episodes: 26

A story about five youths Xu Weibiao, Lin Zhihua, Zhang Peng, Wang Lei and Yu Nan who grew up in Beijing in the 1980s, and later separate due to differing beliefs.

The story of KJ Agency, a well-known agency plans to create and produce a series. Including the artists development therefore gathering young people who have dreams Join the "Beyond The Star" project to develop capabilities in all aspects of the entertainment industry, but on the process to become a superstar. There will always be obstacles. Love, commitment, or dreams, which ones are more important?

(Source: 9naaproduction Instagram)

Episodes: 8

Story follows the challenges that young parents face when they become determined to buy a new house so that their son can attend the top elementary school. The couple's different attitudes caused a series of family conflicts.

(Source: Baidu)

Episodes: 40

Career-oriented CEO of Go Food, Keung Tai Mo Tyson, agrees to go on a blind date his grandfather set up for him. Meanwhile, Suen Ho Lee Hollie, a small fry in Go Food, agrees to go on a blind date in her best friend Chan Ying Shu's stead. A love story between the big boss and a low-ranking employee begins with this blind date. On the other hand, Tyson's secretary Cheung Shing Dong Frankie and Chan Ying Shu, a rich man's daughter, fall in love at first sight. The two will experience many unforgettable moments as their relationship develops in this romantic comedy.

Episodes: 15

(Source: Makerville.hk)

Cha Jin Woo has a hearing impairment. He is not comfortable speaking due to his disability. Cha Jin Woo is used to expressing his feelings through drawings instead of speaking. He happens to meet Jung Mo Eun. She is an aspiring actress and expresses her feelings through words. Cha Jin Woo and Jung Mo Eun fall in love with each other.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 16

Sim Jung Woo is an intelligent and handsome young man. He was the youngest to place first in the state examination, but he was picked to become the princess' husband. During their wedding ceremony, the princess suddenly died. Sim Jung Woo's life changed and he became the most unfortunate man. According to the Joseon period custom, he is not able to take the government post and he can't remarry. He then becomes involved with Jung Soon Deok.

Jung Soon Deok is a widow whose late husband was the second son of the first vice-premier. She secretly leads another life under the pseudonym of Yeo Joo Daek. As Yeo Joo Daek, she works as a matchmaker and also peddler of women's items like cosmetics and accessories. She is the best matchmaker in the capital city of Hanyang. Sim Jung Woo and Jung Soon Deok become involved with each other and they try to get older single men and women to marry as matchmakers.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 16

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Episodes: 7

Nagumo Shuji played baseball for a long time. His life revolved around baseball, but while he played for his university baseball team, he was injured. Due to his injury, Nagumo Shuji quit baseball and dropped out of school. He then worked as a sports trainer, but he made the decision to pursue his dream of becoming a teacher. At the age of 32, he enrolled at a university again and studied to become a teacher. Now, Nagumo Shuji works as a social studies teacher at Etsuzan High School in Mie Prefecture. He is married to Mika, and they live with Mika's father and their two children. Their two children are Aozora, who is from Mika's previous relationship, and their daughter Nagisa.

Meanwhile, there is a baseball team at Etsuzan High School, but they have not had many winning seasons. Inuzuka Mikio is a rich man from a prestigious family. His grandson enters Etsuzan High School, and his goal is to play baseball professionally in the United States. For his grandson, Inuzuka Mikio supports the high school baseball team, and Nagumo Shuji becomes an advisor for the team.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10