Asian Drama

A detective who is solving a murder mystery and uncovers some secrets of the past. It's a thriller film about serial murders & deals with social theme of military violence.

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Duration: 1 hr. 50 min.

Set in the backdrop of the mid-to-late 1980s, “The Hidden Dragon” is a suspense drama that tells the story of students at an agricultural high school in Chungcheong Province. Jang Byung Tae is a small and weak boy living in Onyang in South Chungcheong Province. He is at the bottom of the school’s social ladder so he transfers to the neighboring Buyeo Agricultural High School. There, he faces an unexpected incident that becomes a turning point in his life.

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Episodes: 10

Step into the thrilling world of high school student Kang Jin as he fights against debt collectors and the oppressive harassment of Nam Young, who masquerades as a model student. With each day feeling hopeless and bleak, Kang Jin's life takes a dramatic turn when he stumbles upon a lost envelope of money belonging to Rang.

Using this newfound wealth, he takes a stand against Nam Young's girlfriend Da Young. But when Nam Young discovers Kang Jin's actions, he strikes back by stealing his money and issuing dangerous threats. With nowhere to turn, Kang Jin confides in Rang, who reveals a secret knowledge of the debt-collecting world.

Together, they embark on a thrilling journey of power and control, as Kang Jin takes his first steps into the world of loan sharks.

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Duration: 1 hr. 45 min.

Features different stories of far-reaching impact involving at times a serious social message, with unique emotions or perspectives.

The story is set in the year 2035 when a self-aware female robot enters a human family. Throughout her journey, she fights many enemies to protect her family and friends. She becomes in tune with her humanity as she grows, matures and learns about love.

In Shehong City, a man who feels that there are too many household chores buys a robot with the model "synth 2035" to help take care of his children. He names the robot An Yi. His wife is strongly against the idea and it becomes a source of their quarrels. After a while, they notice that the robot is behaving strangely. She seems like a human rather than a robot. A young man, Li Yao, is in the city searching for the whereabouts of An Yi while at the same time avoiding the pursuit of Professor Huo. It turns out that Li Yao's father invented four "synths" with human emotions to be companions for Li Yao. They have developed a deep bond to become family to each other. Due to an accident, three synths are stolen. An Yi is one of them and her memory is erased. Will Li Yao succeed in finding An Yi? How will he evade Professor Huo's pursuits for their family to be whole again?

Remake of the Swedish science fiction drama Real Humans.

Yusuke Urameshi was a tough teen delinquent until one selfless act changed his life...by ending it. When he died saving a little kid from a speeding car, the afterlife didn't know what to do with him, so it gave him a second chance at life. Now, Yusuke is a ghost with a mission, performing good deeds at the behest of Botan, the ferrywoman of the River Styx, and Koenma, the pacifier-sucking judge of the dead.

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Adapted from the manga series "Yu Yu Hakusho" (幽☆遊☆白書) by Togashi Yoshihiro (冨樫義博).

Episodes: 5

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

The blind "knife-catcher" Blind Cheng, who possesses great skills, meets Ni Yan, a restaurant girl who is brutally murdered and abused. Despite not wanting to intervene initially, he was gradually involved in a huge power of the dark strife, Blind Cheng began to embark on the road to seek justice and revenge, along the way, his true identity was also revealed.

Iron Squad 3 is Korea’s best military survival show, is back with its third season, and it’s packed with tougher missions on an overwhelming scale. Four reservists of the elite special forces form a team, and they compete with their physical and mental abilities.

In Iron Squad 3, the competition becomes a global match for the first time. Korea’s elite forces and the US special forces will clash to let us experience thrilling survival. There’s only one winning team at the end. The honor and pride are at stake in this match between the special forces.

Which iron squad will win the title?

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Wang Wenyuan, Xia Fan and their Black Fox commandoes are not afraid of the heavy defense of the Imperial Japanese army after knowing that the rescue of Ma Long Chuan by the Chinese army failed. They must risk their lives to save Soviet military expert Luo Fei from Japanese captivity.

The movie "Dead Silence" is adapted from the fantasy novel "Zi Buyu". The movie tells the story of blacksmith Lu Li, who after several demon slayings, constantly gets rid of his inner entanglements and becomes a real night wanderer

Ten Tigers of Guangdong: Invincible Iron Fist (2022)

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Quick Counterattack (2023)

Residents of Green Home Apartments, including Cha Hyun Soo, fight against monsters to leave their base and venture out into the world. At a baseball stadium, survivors from all over begin to live together. They are threatened by the monsters outside and also by the monstrous desires of the people among them.

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Adapted from a webtoon “Sweet Home” (스위트홈) by Kim Carnby (김칸비) and Hwang Young Chan (황영찬).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 1 hr. 11 min.

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Aired On: Friday

On the night of December 29th, Detective Kudo Yuji drives his car to see his mother, who is hospitalized with a serious health condition. He receives a phone call from the station police chief asking about his involvement in the creation of a slush fund. He also learns that that his mother has passed away. Yuji then accidentally hits a man with his car and that man dies. At the hospital, Yuji tries to cover up the death of the man he hit with his car by placing his dead body into his mother's casket. At that time, he receives a text message from Police Officer Yazaki. The text message warns "You killed a person. I know that."

When Kim Ji Yong was a child, his mother was beaten to death in the street. The culprit only received three and half years in prison. Kim Ji Yong—now an adult—sees that his mother's killer hasn't changed at all. Ji Yong takes matters into his own hands and beats him brutally.

Subsequently, Kim Ji Yong begins living two entirely different lives. On weekdays, he's a model student at the police university. During the weekends, he punishes criminals who'd recieved light sentences and continue to commit criminal acts. Now called Vigilante, Ji Yong receives help from admirer Cho Kang Ok. Meanwhile, Detective Cho Heon chases after the man called Vigilante.

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Adapted from a webtoon "Vigilante" ( 비질란테) written by CRG and illustrated by Kim Gyu Sam (김규삼)

Release dates: October 5, 2023 (Festival)

Episodes: 8

Hotaro is suddenly transported to a parallel world. Awaiting him is a young man named Houou Kaguya Quartz who summoned him using that world's technology, the Aurora Curtain System. His favorite phrase is "Gorgeous" and he protects the world from the clutches of the evil organization called "Hundred". What's more, the person following Kaguya is a butler named Butler, who looks exactly like Hotaro's friend Ryo Kajiki! Kaguya gathers the power of past Kamen Riders who exist in parallel worlds in order to fight against the Hundred. However, unlike the other Kamen Riders, he seems unable to gain power from Gotchard, who is "not gorgeous". Kaguya brought Hotaro into his world in order to make him gorgeous.

Kang Nam Soon has superhuman strength. She went missing as a kid in Mongolia. Now as an adult, she comes to Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea to find her parents. She finally meets her mother Hwang Geum Joo. Her mother is a wealthy woman and is a resident of Gangnam. After she lost her daughter, Hwang Geum Joo tried to find her daughter and she also tried to live a righteous life, obsessed with doing good deeds. Gil Joong Gan is Hwang Geum Joo's mother and Kang Nam Soon’s grandmother. The grandmother and mother were also born with superhuman like strength like Kang Nam Soon.

Somehow, Kang Nam Soon, her mother Hwang Geum Joo and her grandmother Gil Joong Gan get involved in a drug case that takes place in Gangnam. Detective Kang Hee Sik begins to work with the 3 women on the drug case. Detective Kang Hee Sik also becomes attracted to Kang Nam Soon.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 16

The story of hero So Si Min, who once ruled the nation with her top-tier hapkido skills as a high school athlete. Seven years later, after becoming a part-time teacher, So Si Min finds herself the target of the evil student Han Soo Kang.

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Adapted from a webtoon of the same name.

The "love, revenge, and feel-good" story centers on a young man who swears revenge against the yakuza. He studies the art of the "assassination fist" with all his might, and becomes an adult. But this man who is a genius at his martial art form realizes his techniques cannot actually be used to kill anyone.

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Adapted from the manga series "Kenshiro ni Yoroshiku" (ケンシロウによろしく) by Jasmine Gyuh (ジャスミン・ギュ).

Episodes: 6

Nalinya's life reaches a turning point when she accidentally falls off of the Ching Dao cliff. At the bottom, she meets a strange guy. He's no ordinary man, but a martial artist from the Chinese wuxia novel she's translating.

Wang Yi Tian, the leader of the Cloud Tiger sector, was assassinated in the martial world. However, by some miracle, he was brought into a new world. Here, he falls in love with Nalinya and begins to protect her as she too seems to be the target of assassination.

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Four youths who dream of studying in the capital end up in a vocational school as they spelled their school's name wrong on the application. At the school, however, a girl they meet dramatically changes their lives.

(Source: WeTV)

Episodes: 10

Detective Won Ho looks for missing person Rak and he also chases after Teacher Lee, who is the boss of a drug ring. Brian and Keunkal appear in front of Detective Won Ho. Keunkal is the the only one who knows the real identity of Teacher Lee.

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After 10 years in the prison on behalf of his boss, Soo Hyuk is released, but the boss doubts his loyalty. When Soo Hyuk visits his long-abandoned girlfriend, he finds out that he, now, is a father of young girl. He wants to cut ties with the gang, but the boss is not ready to release him, and hires a notorious killer. The killer takes the daughter as hostage, and Soo Hyuk decides to take revenge in a way that he`s best at; violence.

Zhao Tan Tan's senior brother has a magic flower on his forehead, and it will gradually bloom if he is emotional. The magic flower will fall into the devil's hand when it blooms. From then on, Zhao Tan Tan began the hard days of persuading his senior brother to recite more scriptures and be less emotional.

Adapted from the novel "To Blossom" (师兄总是要开花) by Han Yi Shui (韩易水).

Episodes: 30

Established in 1966 by nations all around the world in response to the worldwide outbreak of Kaiju disasters, the Global Guardian Force (GGF) deals with Kaiju and extraterrestrial life forms’ attacks on Earth. Today, Earth sees continued destruction of nature and rapid rise in global warming. One night, a space crustacean Kaiju Bazanga appears. The GGF's cleanup operation is unsuccessful, and the special forces led by Gento Hiruma find themselves in a desperate situation. This is when a mysterious giant emerges from light. It is the unidentified humanoid alien that has been rumored among astronauts for decades, code-named "Ultraman". Later, Gento is summoned to the command center, where he is officially appointed as the commander of SKaRD, short for Special Kaiju Reaction Detachment, a team that had been secretly formed. Leading a special unit that pilots a giant Kaiju-type robot artillery, Earth Garon, to respond with Kaiju disasters. While Gento is ordered to investigate the Ultraman from the Battle of Bazanga, to determine whether it is a threat that needs to be eliminated or not, he has a flashback of a faraway galaxy—a shred of memory of a blazar. "I’ll go." Captain Gento, shrouded by Ultraman Blazar’s light, with the unique members of the newly organized SKaRD, throws themselves into battles against the Kaiju with dauntless courage and an unwavering sense of justice!

Fight Through The Yin-Yang House (2023)

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Han Dong Soo is a livelihood lawyer. He randomly picks a prisoner to visit and picks up a case. He is usually rational and reasonable, but deep within his mind exists a dark side. Something triggers him to cross the line and step into the world of evil. His younger half-brother is Han Beom Jae. Han Beom Jae works at a second-hand computer shop and he also acts as a case broker for Han Dong-soo, bringing him clients. One day, Han Beom Jae notices that Han Dong Soo has changed since he brought him a case.

That case involves Seo Do Young who is the #2 ranked member of a crime organization. He is a former baseball player and appears nothing like a typical gangster. Behind his handsome looks, he hides a cruel and unpredictable madness.

(Source: Asianwiki)

Episodes: 10

Lust, shame, passion, lies and violence - the lives of individuals intertwine in an unyielding web under the red lights of Geylang. A desperate doctor searching for an organ for his daughter, a tormented prostitute paying off her lover's debt, a social worker with political inclinations willing to cross the line, and a ruthless pimp with a dark secret. Nothing is quite what it seems as a long night awaits.

Following the story of Ran, who confronts a mysterious organization by participating in a no-rules deathmatch after discovering her missing younger sister Yuzuki is involved in a crime. With danger at every corner, Ran must trade in her boxing gloves for brass knuckles. Will she save her sister?

(Source: Amazon)

Adapted from the webtoon "Knuckle Girl" (너클걸) written by Jun Sang Young (전상영) and illustrated by You Sang Jin (유상진).