Asian Drama

~~ Adapted from the novel "Qiang Tou Ma Shang" (墙头马上) by Tao Jiang (桃酱).

Episodes: 24

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

Duration: 10 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

A coming-of-age drama about the friendship, rivalries and love of three best friends: Mana, Shin and Tawan. They spent almost all their lives together, growing up alongside one another. Tawan is the centre of their universe, both men in love with her. As close as they are, Mana and Shin don't want to hurt each other's feelings.

(Source: CH3+; edited by MyDramaList)

Tags: Coming Of Age, Love Triangle, Friendship (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 22

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Country: Thailand

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday

Aired: Jul 22, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Kojima Toru is a medical school student, but he is bored with his life that always seems the same. One day, he meets an architect, Asano Shifumi, and he is invited to her office. He enjoys a pleasant time with her. They drink coffee and listen to music. At that time, he sees a black and white photo of the Tokyo Tower on her office wall. He asks her if she likes the Tokyo Tower, and she replies that she does not because it looks lonely to her. Kojima Toru loves the time he spends with her. A couple of days later, he visits her office again and tells her that he wants to know more about her.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the novel "Tokyo Tower" (東京タワー) by Ekuni Kaori (江國香織).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Saturday

Ratings: 7.9

Model Plawan has been a pad kaprao—no long beans—enthusiast all his life. Offered a hefty sum, he's hired to train at a well-known chef's table restaurant under head chef Chef Oab. His secret mission is to make Chef Oab fall for him and and to become his successor. Unfortunately, he's shaken by the harsh and stern-looking chef who smells like holy basil. Apart from being known for his skills in the kitchen, he's also said to be a serious perfectionist, instilling fear even in his peers. How, then, can amateur Plawan hope to measure up?

Adapted from the web novel "No Beans and Love Me More" (รักนี้ไม่มีถั่วฝักยาว) by Ninepinta (นายพินต้า).

Airs On: Friday

Marriage and divorce come a little too easily in modern Beijing society. When Long Xia (Tong Da Wei) and Yu Xiao Yu (Wang Li Kun) are both betrayed by their partners in different ways, they meet in Beijing and end up becoming roommates. But when their parents find out that they are cohabitating, they force the two to get married. Long Xia and Xiao Yu accept the situation without much thought. After marriage, the down-to-earth Xiao Yu discovers that the more materialistic Long Xia is her polar opposite. As conflicts arise with regular frequency between the impetuous newlyweds, they discover the importance of really getting to know someone before jumping in marriage. Can the unlikely couple make their marriage work? “Think Before You Marry” is a 2015 Chinese drama series.

Jiang Yi Yi is a graduate student majoring in artificial intelligence. Ever since her twin sister passed away, she has been carrying a sense of guilt and has been determined to develop an AI that can "resurrect" her sister. This led her to be enter the world OG "Al Guru", Gu Yu.

Gu Yu, althouth hailed as a master in the field of AI, has a little-known mental illness. He has been searching for his childhood "Green Plum" to cure his illness, but by coincidence, he found Yi Yi, the older sister of his "Green Plum".

These tw "romantic fools" who should not haven fallen in love, gradually grew closer to each other during their joint research project, at their values aligned. As they helped each other solve problems, the seeds of love began to sprout.

Mochizuki Kohei married Maria, the beautiful and talented daughter of a wealthy family. He quit his job at a medium-sized advertising agency to run a café and appears to have everything going well with him. Although Kohei pretends to be the perfect husband, he feels suffocated by his wife’s consideration and restrictions and plots her murder at the instigation of his café partner and lover Kitasato Anna. However, the situation drastically changes just as he makes the decision to kill Maria. When Kohei returns home, she has been kidnapped and the kidnapper demands an enormous ransom. To make things worse, he is made a suspect at some point in this kidnapping case and driven into a corner. In the middle of this, Maria’s frightening true face which was completely unknown to Kohei gradually emerges.

Lei Hao Yang is a cat spirit who gets irritated by humans claiming themselves as the most intelligent species on the planet. To Lei, it’s a joke how incredible the stupidity of humankind is, as shown by the huge number of humans crazy about cats. However, there is one human to whom Lei feels indebted to - Jiang Ke Qi. To pay her back for saving his life when he was young, Lei has set up a company to secretly provide her with a stable job and high income. When he feels the time is right for her to succeed him as the boss, he realizes that he has fallen victim to the human love that he once so strongly despised.

(Source: Taiwan Pavilion, Chinese = Wikipedia || Edited by/Translation = olivestulip at MyDramaList)

Episodes: 7

Duration: 15 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

Aired On: Friday, Saturday

Presenter: Dennis Yang [楊志光]

Producer: Pan Xin Hui [潘心慧]

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Set during the late Meiji era to post-World War II period at Osaka, featuring the lead character Fujioka Ten who is modeled after Yoshimoto Sei, the founder of Yoshimoto Kogyo and a female comedy show promoter. Ten is born into a family managing a drug wholesale business in Kyoto and meets Kitamura Tōkichi who is the son of a family in the rice dealing business. When they fall in love, Ten goes against her parents' wishes to marry Tokichi who is a big lover of comedy. Ten unwittingly becomes the manager of a vaudeville theater with her husband, and eventually becomes the first woman in Japan to make comedy into a business, transforming Osaka into a capital of comedy.

Twelve years ago, several homicides caused a sensation in the city. The victims were all from the bottom of society, and their bodies were found in deserted and remote places.It is speculated that the murderer may be the same person, but because of his extremely cunning, the case is very difficult for the time being. Through unremitting investigations and evidence collection, the criminal police gradually identified the main suspect. On the way to a meeting with his daughter Ling Ran, the criminal policeman Ling Bin hunted down the suspect and died in the line of duty.

Twelve years later, Ling Bin's daughter Ling Ran (played by Yu Nan) worked in the Polygraph Center of the Technical Division of the Criminal Police Detachment. She used polygraph technology to successfully solve several major cases and became famous. Chen Hu, head of Interpol Detachment Crime Unit (Xing Jiadong ornaments) and her partner, although the two have different ideas to solve the case in terms of the criminal investigation, but also quite understanding, but a spate of mystery.

This drama is based on a true case, The film-level production team was jointly created by Xiaoran Pictures and Kujing Pictures, and starred by Yu Nan's partner Xing Jiadong. This is also the second collaboration between the two old classmates after a long absence.

Set in Kumamoto, one year after Iruma Michio was transferred out of “Ichikei”. Whilst Michio is busy vigorously conducting trials at the Kumamoto District Court 2nd Branch, a case of grievous bodily harm arises, revolving around a young man named Suwa Haruto who intervened in a gang fight and is in critical condition. The suspect, Uchida Wataru, pleads guilty to the charges, and on the surface, it appears to be a cut and dry case that will result in a suspended sentence. However, as the investigation proceeds, it becomes clear that Wataru initially denied the charges during his police interrogation. Sensing there is more to the story and doubting the suspects’ guilt, Michio activates his authority and begins his own investigation.

Meanwhile, in Tokyo, Komazawa Yoshio, the head judge of “Ichikei”, is deliberating over a personal injury case between employees of the large company "Hoshizumi Holdings." The employees belonged to factions of the next company president candidates, and the case resembles a war by proxy. The parties involved, Oyabu Shigeyuki and Shimazu Natsuko only care about ending the trial as quickly as possible, which makes Komazawa even more irritated.

From these two completely unrelated cases, an unexpected connection arises. When things finally come to trial, what dreadful heartbreak and deep darkness is hidden at the center of these cases?

(Source: Japan Program Catalog)

Adapted from the manga "Ichikei no Karasu" (イチケイのカラス) by Asami Rito (浅見理都).

Episodes: 1