Asian Drama

Chen Mai Dong was once a rebellious youth, but after experiencing a life-changing event, he chose to become a funeral makeup artist. Zhuang Jie became disabled due to a car accident, but she worked hard and became a career elite in the big city in order to pursue a better self.

One is a funeral makeup artist with a rebellious personality but is emotionally and physically lonely; the other is a brave and dazzling medical salesperson with physical defects. Through constant struggles, they gradually understand and respect each other, healing each other’s “imperfections” with love.

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Adapted from the web novel "Qing Ren" (情人) by She Mu Si (舍目斯).

Episodes: 21

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

Knowing nothing more than the working-class life he is born into, headstrong Lu Xiao Lu reluctantly starts down the path he is expected to follow. At age nineteen in 1990s China, he feels pressure to follow suit with those around him and takes a job at the town’s saccharin factory. Slowly, he adjusts to the bureaucratic factory routine, making the best of the situation by bonding with coworkers, flirting with girls, and refusing to give in completely to the expectations of those around him.

As Lu Xiao Lu finds his way, a startling portrait of an economically expanding China comes into view; the propaganda of a common goal gives way to a bottom-line system that he sees as indifferent to individual happiness. But thanks to the relationships he develops, Lu Xiao Lu decides to fight for the life he wants.

(Source: Goodreads)

Adapted from the novel "Young Babylon" (少年巴比伦) by Lu Nei (路内).

Episodes: 26

Duration: 45 min.

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

Ratings: 8.3

Joe, the stunt man of famous actor Tong, happened to meet Ming. Having developed a deep relationship, Joe didn't realise that Ming had always seen him as Tong's replacement. When the truth is revealed, Joe has to take work on a foreign set where an accident takes his life. When he wakes, Joe's in the body of a young man likewise named Joe who'd met with an accident on the same day. With help, he's soon living the same life as he was before—with the same people—and he meets Ming once more. In this life, Ming wants Joe back at his side as before and Joe doesn't know why. Ming, who's kept all memories of the old Joe, tries to find the truth about Joe's continued life in order to return Joe to his side and give him the explanation he never had the chance to.

Story is set in the Anti-Japanese War period. It tells the story of Xia Ji Cheng, a proud son from a wealthy high-ranking political family, who originally wanted to go to the Navy to fulfill his dream of becoming a captain. However, an unexpected trip to Shanghai changes his life completely and he becomes a low-ranked police officer.

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Episodes: 34

Duration: 45 min.

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

Kurumi Ichiki (Ayame Gouriki) is 25-years-old. When she was young, she went to France. Now, after she came back to Japan, she works as a waitress at high end traditional restaurant (ryotei). She is talented with cooking. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ichiro Ato (Fumiyo Kohinata) and Executive Secretary of Prime Minister Seiji Koga (Kenichi Takito) decide to hire a cook for the prime minister's residence for the first time in 70 years. Due to an incident, Seiji meets Kurumi Ichiki and discovers that she has a natural talent for cooking. Seiji asks her to be a cook for the Prime Minister. After a hesitation, Kurumi Ichiki says yes. She begins work at the prime minister's residence, but she struggles in a hostile environment with the chef and his subordinates at the restaurant of the prime minister's official residence.

The story revolves around the sweet campus life of a freshman of the sports rehabilitation course and a freshman of the gaming course.

Hasebe Kaori is a rookie movie director. She consults with new screenwriter Kai Chihiro about her movie's screenplay. The script is based on the Sasazukacho Family Murder Case that occurred 15 years ago. That murder case involved a hikikomori man who murdered his younger sister at their home and then set their home on fire. The fire also killed his parents. The town where the murder took place is also the hometown of Kai Chihiro. Both Hasebe Kaori and Kai Chihiro have secrets related to the family murder case. While Hasebe Kaori and Kai Chihiro look into this murder case for their movie, a shocking truth is uncovered.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the novel "Rakujitsu" (落日) by Minato Kanae (湊かなえ).

Episodes: 4

Half a year has passed since Yoshinari Chinami rose to the position of editor of her dream fashion magazine First Class and saved it from closing down despite harassment in the editorial department. She has now become an up-and-coming designer in the fashion brand industry. See her transform from “everyone else but me is bad” to “everyone is bad including me”.

Petch is an engineer that Namneung fell in love with when she was still in high school. She is very happy when Petch tells her that he loves her and asks her to marry him, but Namneung's father Kriengsak and mother Daranee don't agree because they have a different social status. Namneung's friend Phak secretly loves her and does not pay attention to other women, even if Alice was the one wholoved him. Even though Numneung's parents don't agree, they get married and Petch takes Namneung to his house. There, Namneung meets Petch's mother Taptim and Petch's sister Ploy. They seem unfriendly and cold to her, especially Ploy, who looks as if she hated Namneung from the first second they meet because she is disabled due to an accident caused by Namneung's father. This seems to be a part of a revenge.

Republican drama starring Zu Feng and Wang Zi Wen, both known from "Ode to Joy".

Youth variety show We Are Young will gather Chinese trainees forming an international standard boy group, becoming the ICON of the era.

After the Jinshan Mountain was flooded, Snake Xiao Qing was sealed by Monk Fa Hai and guarded by the Demon Control Department. Five hundred years later, Li Xiu Ning, who came here to take the talent election exam of the Demon Control Department, stepped into Xiao Qing's sealing area and broke the seal by accident. As a result, Xiao Qing woke up but lost her memory because the seal was broken by force. To find her memory back and get to know the world, Xiao Qing went to Qingyun Valley with Li Xiu Ning and started a new life. As they grew familiar with each other, Xiao Qing found out about another identity of Li Xiu Ning. Just like that, what happened 500 years ago gradually came out and a love tragedy began between them…