Asian Drama

Centers on a 39-year-old pharmacist. She lives a peaceful life, doing the job she loves. However, the man she has loved for a long time has gotten engaged to another woman. On her way home from a drinking party with her colleagues, a younger man appears in front of her, and somehow, they start to live together out of the blue. Meanwhile, she meets another man who gives her peace of mind with his honesty and kindness. As she starts to realize the true meaning of happiness and the importance of being loved by someone, something begins to change within her…

Sakuragi Miyabi is a high school student in Aomori. She lives with her lawyer grandfather and she receives special education from him in the field of law. Sakuragi Miyabi soon becomes the youngest person to pass the bar exam on their first try. A decision is then made to send Sakuragi Miyabi to her grandmother in Tokyo, who works as a director of a law office. Sakuragi Miyabi begins to work as an apprentice lawyer at her grandmother’s law office. Despite her position, she still has the mindset of a teenager and she sometimes has disagreements with senior lawyers. Meanwhile, Sakuragi Miyabi begins classes at her new high school in Tokyo. She hides her lawyer job from people at her high school, but she eventually begins to give counseling at her school on law matters.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Friday

The story revolves around a company called “Office AIR Cleaning” that specializes in providing a unique break-up service for those who cause trouble to others due to their selfish in-house extramarital affairs.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the web comic "Onsha no Furin no Kudan: Zettai ni Wakare Sasemasu" (御社の不倫の件～絶対に別れさせます～) by Tatsuki Yuuma (樹ユウマ).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Tuesday

Oda Teruasa, a gifted high school senior who is the heir of Japan's wealthy trading company Oda Group, lost everything 13 years ago when his father was murdered by a mysterious organization. The culprit was, in fact, after a weathered key which was in Seiji's possession.

Whoever acquires this key will allegedly see their fortune rise with the number of keys they collect, and with 99 keys, one can gain control over everything in this world. Entrusted with this key by his father just before the fatal incident, Teruasa managed to escape overseas, and since then, he has traveled the world, accumulating knowledge and experiences.

Returning to Japan after 13 years to avenge his father, Teruasa finds himself entangled in the "Akuma Game", a life-threatening battle of wits against rivals aiming for the demonic key.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the manga series "Acma:Game" (アクマゲーム) written by Mebu (メーブ) and illustrated by Megumi Koji (恵広史).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 55 min.

Airs On: Sunday

It tells the story of the current Queen Wang Yunci who was murdered. After falling into the water, she was reborn with an ancient jade pendant and had a new identity - Princess Duan Jiang Jinli. His birthday turned into his death anniversary, and his brother-in-law turned into his husband. When he mistakenly thought that Prince Duan was plotting against him and killed him, he decided to take revenge. He repeatedly felt the care and protection of "Prince Duan" for him, so they seemed to be two people with their own concerns. From using each other to giving sincerity, the story of fulfilling each other’s long-cherished wishes and gaining love at the same time.

Adapted from the web novel "Mou Ni" (谋逆) by Zhao Mian Mian (赵眠眠).

(Source: Gmat6594 Gmat6594 at Dramacool)

Episodes: 24

Duration: 13 min.

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

Ratings: 7.0

The legendary thief marries into the Xu family, thus starting a battle of wits and will with a stone-faced inspector. Caught in a cat and mouse game, the two natural enemies learn to become husband and wife.

The real identity of the "willow thief" is Liu Rong . Thirteen years ago, she was rescued by Lord Su from the great floods in the South. In order to repay him, Liu Rong pretends to be his daughter Su Jin Zhen and marries Xu Mu Chen. Under Lord Su's instructions, she must infiltrate the Xu manor in order to find a jade pendant. From the start, neither spouse gave any thought for their sham of a marriage. On the surface, Liu Rong is a gentle and considerate wife. By night, she is a notorious bandit.

The inspector Xu Mu Chen and the thief have been caught in repeated confrontations. Without knowing that the thief he's been trying to catch is his wife, Xu Mu Chen returns from his troublesome run ins with the thief only to find more trouble waiting for him at home. Thereafter, the day-to-day interactions between an official and a thief leads to a sweet romance.

(Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Adapted from the novel "Zei Niang Zi" (贼娘子) by Yan Nong (烟秾).

Episodes: 24

How will popular actor Sugisaka Hana spend her filming break? This is the 4th season in this omnibus series that focuses on how an actor spends their vacation in between the filming of dramas and movies.

On the morning of her break from filming, Sugisaki Hana listens to the horoscope on the radio. “If you are a Libra, tidy up all your clutter today. Your lucky item is a round object!” Hearing this, she tries to clear her laundry, but the washing machine just won’t work. Sugisaki has no choice but to go to the laundromat which she is unfamiliar with and does not know how to pay the 300-yen charge. What she brought with her is a credit card and a 1,000 yen note. Sugisaki follows another laundromat user’s suggestion to get small change from the vending machine outside. However, she ends up getting entranced by the voice of a street musician that she happened to hear and buys a CD with those 1,000 yen…

As a 24 year old woman, Ogata Makoto doesn't like to show her true self or draw attention to herself in her private life or when she is at work. This is because she doesn't want to be disliked. One night, Ogata Makoto has an accident. The accident causes her to lose memory about herself. She finds a male ring in her bag, but she doesn't remember who she was going to give the ring to. Soon, three men appear in front of Ogata Makoto and the ring fits perfectly on all three of the men. One of them proclaims himself as her ex-lover, one man claims to be her only male friend, and the other man claims to be her man of fate. Each of them have their own lies.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 57 min.

Airs On: Tuesday

Bok Gwi Joo and his family were born with different supernatural powers. Bok Gwi Joo is able to travel back in time, but only to happy times in his life. He can't change the past, so he can only dwell on those happy moments. Bok Gwi Joo becomes afflicted with depression, and this leads him to lose his supernatural power.

His family also loses their own powers due to modern-day problems like insomnia, bulimia, and smartphone addiction. One day, Do Da He happens to get involved with Bok Gwi Joo and his family. She begins to live with them, and change occurs.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

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Episodes: 20

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

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Episodes: 26

TV anchor Ye Yu Ran fell into a dream and became a widow and a stepmother of four children in a poor ancient family. Let's see how this newly minted pretty lady fights evil and advanced, gets rich, helps the poor villagers, and captures a proud "noble son" along the way.

Adapted from the web novel "Chuan Cheng Nong Men E Po Po" (穿成农门恶婆婆) by Yu Hua Qi (遇花期).

(Source: Douban, Westley at Dramacool)

Episodes: 24

Duration: 10 min.

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

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Episodes: 16

Aired On: Thursday, Friday

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Episodes: 30

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

Jooshin High School is the most prestigious school in South Korea. The school was established by the conglomerate Jooshin Group. Normally, only students who are chosen at birth to attend Jooshin High School are allowed. Those students include Jeong Jae Yi, who is the first daughter of the family that runs the Jaeyool Group; Kim Ri An, who is the successor of the Jooshin Group; Yoon He Ra, who is the youngest daughter of the trading company International Yoon, and Lee Woo Jin who is the second son of a powerful politician family.

Meanwhile, Kang Ha is transferred to Jooshin High School. He possesses a pure and innocent smile, but he holds a secret. Due to him, the concrete world of Jooshin High School begins to crack.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 7

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Friday

Ye Xi Yan, the daughter of the Ye Group, was almost killed in a car accident while on a trip in the countryside. She was rescued by Lu Ming Yu, the owner of the tea garden in Guyan Village, who happened to pass by. To avoid danger, Ye Xi Yan pretended to have lost her memory but was mistaken for the peasant girl Xiu Fen. She also accidentally got engagement with Lu Ming Yu?! A sweet and smiling cohabitation life began...

However, the appearance of Cui Zi Hao, the son of Cui Group, broke the tranquility of their cohabitation. Ye Xi Yan's identity as a peasant girl was in doubt, and Lu Ming Yu's past as a bodyguard gradually revealed clues. The two people, each with their own concerns, had many misunderstandings, and the conspiracy against the tea garden and Ye Group gradually emerged. Can the two work together to deal with the crisis and stick to their true love?

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Episodes: 24

Duration: 15 min.

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

Adapted from the manga series "RoOT of Oddtaxi" (ルート オブ オッドタクシー ) written by Konomoto Kazuya (此元和津也) and illustrated by Abaraya Takeichi (肋家).

Episodes: 1

While Nishimura Kanade was a 3rd grade middle school student, her father, who worked as a prosecutor, died in an incident. After her father’s death, she and her mother moved to her moved to her mother’s hometown in Nagano Prefecture. Nishimura Kanade wanted to become a prosecutor like her father, and she entered law school at a national university in Nagano Prefecture. There, she had 4 friends, including Nogi Masaki. They became really close friends and shared memorable experiences together. Due to a case involving a death, their relationship ended.

12 years later, Nishimura Kanade is now 35 years old and works as a prosecutor in the Yokohama District Public Prosecutors’ Office. Her boyfriend is Okuda Takashi, who works as a doctor, and they live together. One day, one of her law school classmates, who disappeared after the death case, appears in front of her. Nishimura Kanade must confront the suspicious death case from her law school days. This leads her to examine the truth behind her father’s death from 20 years ago and also the secret faces of her friends.

(Source: Japanese = TV Asahi)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Tuesday

Adapted from a web novel "Chuan Yue Nv Yu Dao Chong Sheng Nan" (穿越女遇到重生男) by Xue Shan Lan (雪山岚).

Episodes: 23

Duration: 10 min.

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

Wo Zai Dong Bei Zuo Bai Shi Di Na Xie Nian (2024)

Lin Huan Huan and Lin Shang Shang are twins. The younger sister, Huan Huan, was sent up to the mountains to learn medical skills since she was a child. Years later, her sister Shang Shang fell in love with the Crown Prince. Unexpectedly, the Empress deliberately bestowed Shang Shang a marriage to Prince Shangguan Li, for which Lin Shang Shang hanged herself. Lin Huan Huan now is forced to marry on behalf of her sister, starting a life of cohabitation between enemies!

(Source: Westley at Dramacool)

Episodes: 18

Duration: 10 min.

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

Two years ago, Noda Tetsuya worked as a doctor. He was a medical intern trained by cardiac surgeon Terashima Koichi. One day, Koichi and his wife were murdered. At that time, Tetsuya lost his right hand. Koichi and his wife left behind their 8-year-old daughter Terashima Yui.

Now, Noda teams up with Yui to lead an illegal secret surgery team, whose ultimate purpose is to find the truth behind the death of her parents. The team consists of 7 members. Noda is called Teacher and Yui is called Dr. Chocolate. She is only 10 years old, but she is a genius in the medical field. She was strongly influenced by her father and acquired advanced medical techniques through her interest in her father's work. To hire the black market surgery team, a fee of 100 million yen in cash is required as well as an NDA requirement and chocolate. The team are able to save the lives of patients no matter the circumstances, but a newspaper reporter begins to chase after them.

Mochizuki Seitaro was full of enthusiasm as a pyrotechnist, but 1 year later (after the season one finale), his enthusiasm for his work has gone away. He hardly goes out, and he lives like a recluse. His fireworks store, which has been passed down for generations in his family, is still open but in danger of going out of business.

Meanwhile, Mizumori Hikari works part-time as a pyrotechnist at a different fireworks store. In the midst of all this, for the first time in a while - a quarrel breaks out between Wataru and Seitaro. Then, a mysterious woman, Fumiko Noguchi, suddenly visits the shop and not only asks to become Seitaro's apprentice but also suddenly proposes to him. Seitaro, Hikari, Fumika, and Wataru will live under one roof.

(Source: natalie.mu, AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Saturday

At the welcome party for the new CEO, the crowd erupted in cheers. However, when he finally turned around… surprise! It was a charming and alluring figure in just a silky robe?! Lin Xue Nong, a staunch believer in the single life, found her calm existence shattered by the arrival of the charismatic new CEO, Zhou Heng.

The tumultuous feelings of a divorced couple are rekindled when they become reunited years later as interns at the same hospital.

As the daughter of the Prime Minister, Mei Yu Shan exchanges her life with Dou Zi, a skilled thief. With very different personalities and identities, they spark many hilarious stories in the process of exchanging their lives. How will Yu Shan win over Nan Gong Yao, the Crown Prince of Jixi Kingdom, by showing a different charm as an "overbearing thief"?

Will the cool and obsessive-compulsive Crown Prince be able to break the prophecy made by the National Master, Bai Ye, which predicts the crown prince's love will lead to the annihilation of the Jixi Kingdom? Can he ultimately fulfill his responsibilities to both his country and his beloved?

(Source: Youku)

Adapted from the novel "Shen Tou Qiao Wang Fei" (神偷俏王妃) by An Yi Mo (安以陌).

Episodes: 24

Duration: 39 min.

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

Ratings: 7.1

Love comes in all flavors.

Secret Ingredient is the story of a Korean man who gives up his entire luxurious life in Seoul in search of his childhood girlfriend, someone he’s never forgotten all these years, in the hopes that she would fall in love with him, not for who they were back then or who they are now, but for what they can aspire to be: happy, fulfilled and blissfully in love with one another.

(Source: Viu PH)

Episodes: 6

Airs On: Tuesday

A delinquent 2nd year student becomes the chairman of the board of a prestigious high school left behind by his father.

Na Yi Soo may have grown up in an environment that others would envy, but he harbors hatred for his father and heads to Balhae High School, which his father cherished, in order to seek revenge. The process of change between Yi Soo, who has lived a rougher life than anyone else, and the nation's most elite students who have lived upright lives, as they get to know each other, and the love that blooms in the process, will be dynamically unfolded.

(Source: Korean = Daum)

Episodes: 12

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Monday

Ratings: 8.3

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Episodes: 24

Duration: 10 min.

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

Xiao Chang Qing, Sun Qian Cheng and Chen Xin Cheng worked hard all their lives. After retirement, they finally got together and co-founded a warm retirement community. In the community, they solved problems that elderly people faced, and in the process, they recognized their own problems and reconciled with their family and with themselves.

Episodes: 36

Duration: 45 min.

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

The drama continues from the first season of the Joy of Life trilogy, following the story of Fan Xian as he gains a stronghold in the court.

Episodes: 36

Duration: 45 min.

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

Ratings: 8.7