Asian Drama

A police detective investigating the kidnapping of elementary school students becomes involved in the intricate network of the underworld.

Beijing policeman Li Hui Yan has gone alone to a small town in Dongbei due to a kidnapping case. By chance, he meets Zhou You, a mortician who is searching for the truth about his father's death. The two are pulled into grudges and entanglements that span three decades. In twelve days and nights, a secret about human nature is revealed.

A police detective investigating the kidnapping of elementary school students becomes involved in the intricate network of the underworld.

Beijing policeman Li Hui Yan has gone alone to a small town in Dongbei due to a kidnapping case. By chance, he meets Zhou You, a mortician who is searching for the truth about his father's death. The two are pulled into grudges and entanglements that span three decades. In twelve days and nights, a secret about human nature is revealed.

This collection of shocking, unpredictable stories feature the first screen adaptation of the number one young author of his generation, Otsuichi. Working with five different directors, ZOO features five stories (four live-action, one animated) of fear, sadness and pain.

"Zoo" A man kills a woman at an abandoned zoo and takes pictures of her dead body everyday. Then suddenly the zoo is gone and the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred. "Kazari and Yoko" The mother of twin sisters, Kazari and Yoko, loves only one of her daughters, and abuses the other. When the abused tries to break free, things take shocking turns.

"Seven Rooms" One day, a young boy and his older sister find themselves trapped in a small, concrete room. There are seven rooms in all, each containing a different prisoner. On the sixth day, everyone will be massacred. Can they survive?

"So Far" A young boy's father is convinced that his mother is dead. The mother is convinced the father is dead. The boy is the only person that both father and mother can see.

"When the Sun Shines" CG animation about a unique man learning about life and death in a world where most of humanity has already died out.

A best-selling writer is threatened when her private life is leaked and she is stigmatized. Soon after, she is kidnapped while at a bar and wakes up inside an oil drum covered in blood. In order to survive, the writer must confront her enemies and use her imagination to save herself.

“Bossam – Stealing Fate” will tell the story of a person who accidentally kidnaps a princess. Ba Woo who engages in the practice of connecting widows, who had no hopes of getting remarried, with new husbands. He was framed for conspiracy by someone at a young age and though he was able to escape with his life, he has had to hide his identity and live in poverty since. The drama will be set during the reign of King Gwang Hae, and revolve around Ba Woo and princess Soo Kyung. It will be a story of life and love that touches upon the oppression experienced by women and the impoverished.

No one involved in this matter is forgiven!

Jeong Woo, who grew up with Han Na under their adoptive mother, goes abroad to contribute to a difficult family environment.

However, after hearing the news of the death of his adoptive mother in a hit-and-run traffic accident, he returns to Korea, and found out that Cheol Jin, a member of the local organization Taechangpa, and former classmate of Han Na was involved.

Meanwhile, Taechangpa joined hands with the Japanese yakuza organization to expand its power. They kidnapped Han Na to catch Jeong Woo, who was tightening them up. This makes Jeong Woo even angrier.

The anger of a man who lost everything explodes!

The film centers on Iwao Shishido, who at age forty suddenly leaves his rural village, but returns with a foreign bride during his father's funeral.

This is adapted by director Keisuke Yoshida from Hideki Arai’s 1990s manga series with the same title.

Cheongdam-dong is the seat of wealth and prestige in Korean high society, but an ugly, deeply rooted scandal shakes it to its core when a woman who is determined to get pregnant learns that she is being deceived by the family (her mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and her husband) she was married into, and discovering that the building designer (whose mother supposedly had died) that she just befriended was a person she saved when she was a young girl. She is unaware that she is being sought after by her birth mother (after a woman kidnapped her when she was a baby), who is now married to a businessman and now has a daughter who happens to be jealous of her because she sees her as a rival for the love of her life.

When Tarn decides to get back together with her college sweetheart, her new boyfriend takes the news very badly and lures her into a dangerous trap.

Three sons and one daughter gather at the eldest son’s house at their father’s deathbed. They need to divide up their father′s legacy of 2 billion won. In the presence of a public notary, the father leaves half of the inheritance to his eldest son and the other half to be shared by the rest of the children. The first son is disappointed that he only got half while the others complain about their small inheritance. In the midst of this escalating sibling dispute, the first son receives a phone call from someone claiming to have kidnapped his son! The kidnapper threatens to kill the boy if he doesn′t pay 2 billion won. To save his only son, the first son starts demanding his siblings hand over their share of father′s two billion won to the kidnapper. The film is rich in ideas that will draw the audience in. As the inheritance gets tangled up with the kidnapping, the situation goes from bad to worse. Each character is affected, unleashing more of their personality, as events race towards an unexpected conclusion.

Even when they were orphans, Wang Yi Zhi has always been in love with Xin Xin. Now older, Yi Zhi decides to train as a boxer before he allows himself to profess his love, but only for her to fall for a geeky computer engineer who is secretly a popular superhero. When Xin Xin gets kidnapped, Yi Zhi must prove his love and his fighting skills to get the girl of his dreams.

A futuristic film about a crisis near the brink of war after three leaders are kidnapped by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup d’état during a summit between the two Koreas and the United States.

Jung Ju has lost her son to heart disease and can’t break free from the pain of that loss. She spends most of her waking hours working, drinking and going to church, but it doesn’t help her at all. One day, Min Gu, a young man newly out of prison joins her company. Looking shabby and his face covered with scars, Min Gu brings Jung Ju’s old memories that she forgot 12 years ago.

Kyung Min is an average female living by herself in a studio apartment. When she gets to her place after work, she finds her door lock cover left open. Slightly scared of this, she changes her password. However, just before she goes to sleep, she hears someone trying to unlock her door. Startled by this, Kyung Min calls the police. Yet, the cops only show annoyance and no sympathy towards the frightened Kyung Min. A few days later, she finds more hints of someone trying to enter her home, and a murder incident occurs. Realizing she’s not safe and that the police are not to be trusted, she starts investigating on her own. A door lock case left open, unknown fingerprints on the keypads, and a cigarette bud found in front of her door; someone’s here.

Dong Chul and Ji Soo are a happily married couple. Dong Chul was once a notorious gangster, but he has changed his ways. One day, Dong Chul comes to home to find his house in disarray and his wife missing. Dong Chul then receives a phone call from someone offering to pay him to give up his wife. Dong Chul vows to save his wife.

Listen closely, because skilled voice profiler Kang Kwon Joo is back. Working tirelessly at the Emergency Call Center, she uses her first-rate hearing to save lives and catch culprits. When it comes to responding to emergencies within the vital “golden time,” Kang Kwon Joo is simply the best.

Do Kang Woo is a mysterious man who’s able to tap into the mind of a criminal. He also hides a secret pain that he doesn’t share with anyone. When he meets Kang Kwon Joo, they reluctantly form a team. She can hear crime; he can think it. Together, they take on the most dangerous criminals their city has ever seen.

Jin Il and Ga Yeong are teenage runaways who live like a family with other runaway children. Sometimes they do some delivery work, sometimes they steal things to make their living. When they run out of money, they make Ga Yeong lure a middle-aged man to a motel. She seduces him as if she were selling her body, but she fails to take any money from him, as he takes her hostage and demands Jin Il brings him money. It turns out that he is a crooked Karaoke bar owner who forces runaway girls like Ga Yeong to work for him. Can Jin Il rescue her?

Ki Joon and Hee Yeol are new students at the Korean National Police University. They are not the best students, but they are sincere when it matters. They decide to go out one evening. Towards the end of their night, they witness a young woman being kidnapped. Ki Joon and Hee Yeol try to get the police involved, but they meet apathy and bureaucracy. The two police cadets decide to save the young woman's life before it's too late.

Jung Ho, a famous photographer, has just returned to Korea from abroad. Jung Ho still can't get rid of traumatic memories of his late girlfriend who ended her life in front of him. In the midst of this, Jung Ho becomes a temporary guardian for Soo Yeon, a little girl whose mother is in a vegetative state and father who died in a car accident. However, at the same time, gruesome killings started happening that targeted little girls. Detective Kim begins to suspect Jung Ho is involved in the events.

After an extremely close national assembly race, Jong Chan wins the nomination of his party. He and his wife Yeon Hong are fully committed to the campaign and when their teenager daughter Min Jin goes missing, Jong Chan convinces Yeon Hong not to notify the authorities fearing negative publicity. With the election imminent, Yeon Hong decides to look for her daughter, but instead uncovers a twisted series of conspiracy, secrets, and lies surrounding Min Jin’s disappearance.

Dae Ho can purposefully control his dream environment while lucid dreaming.

His child gets kidnapped, and in order to unpack the facts he’s buried in his memory, he has to get the help of someone who can send him back into his dreams while half-awake. They race against the clock while poking around in his dreams for clues about the crime, which he collects in bits and pieces.

Tos is a grape plantation owner. He is very protective over his sick younger sister, Vithinee, who has fallen for Pong. Pong already has a girlfriend, Bow. Pong gets Vithinee pregnant when he is cheating on Bow.

Not wanting Bow to ruin his sister's happiness with Pong, Tos forces Bow into marriage. He does this using deception. When they first met, Bow was very drunk and is drugged by a guy and taken to a hotel to be raped. Tos saw what was happening and saved her. He takes her to his hotel. When she wakes up, she thinks Tos has raped her. Later on, he uses this incident to his advantage and forces her into marriage. Tos secretly starts to fall in love with Bow, but still teases her.

Pong, on the other hand, marries Vithinee, eventhough he is still madly in love with Bow. He tries very hard to get rid of Vithinee so that he can return to Bow.

A kidnapper disappeared 15 years ago without a trace. Five days before the case's statute of limitations expires, someone anonymously leaves a flower at the crime scene. A few days later, another kidnapping takes place using the same method on a similar target. Three people team up to solve the case before it's too late: the grandfather (Song Young-chang), who lost his granddaughter right in front of him, the mother (Uhm Jung-hwa), who has been searching for the person who abducted her daughter 15 years ago, and the detective with a guilty conscience (Kim Sang-kyung), who puts everything into this long-unsolved case.

Fifteen years ago, a female child was kidnapped on the way from school. At that time, Park Hae Yeong, who was an elementary school student, witnessed the girl being taken away. A few days later, the girl was found dead, and detectives couldn't find the culprit. As time went by, Hae Yeong started distrusting the police. Fifteen years later, Hae Yeong is now a police officer and criminal profiler. One day, he finds a walkie-talkie that allows him to get in contact with Detective Lee Jae Han who is in the past. Police officers Hae Yeong, Jae Han and Cha So Hyun then set out on a journey to solve cold cases.

Jung-Ho (Kim Sang-Kyung), a famous photographer who has a special ability to read people’s minds, has just returned to Korea from abroad. Jung-Ho still can’t get rid of traumatic memories of his late girlfriend who ended her life in front of him. In the midst of this, Jung-Ho becomes a temporary guardian for Soo-Yeon (Han Bo-Bae), a little girl whose mother is in a coma. Detective Kim (Park Yong-Woo) begins to suspect Jung-Ho is involved in the gruesome events that surround him. And the case becomes even more desperate when Soo-Yeon herself disappears.

The film is about "people who are dissatisfied with the country carrying out a kidnapping plan and take revenge toward the people who reign over them", according to Korea Media Rating Board (KMRB). "Regarding the images, it included heavily violent content throughout the whole film", said an official from KMRB, explaining the R-rating and why they prohibit people under 18 from seeing the movie.

A little girl is kidnapped and murdered in the jurisdiction of gang buster detective Yang Chun-dong, who fights against the gangs for three years now. Also the case of the murdered girl is up to him. During the case, he realizes the crime scene is the same as the mysterious wall paper he saw once on the street. He starts tracking down the painter, a young man called Joon. But when Chun-dong is arresting Joon, he realizes that this boy has the so-called 'psycho-metry' ability to see the past by touching someone or something with his right hand. His whole life he had lived alone because he thought about his ability as a curse. So, as a monetary, he tried to help to solve crimes. However, for the police Joon is the main suspect for the murder case. But Detective Yang believes Joon and that is only witness of the murder. Or in other words: the only chance to find the true killer before he strikes again.

Suzuhara Nao, an expert observer of migratory birds, becomes a substitute teacher at an elementary school. She's in charge of of first-year students and doesn't have much passion for her job. One of her young students named Reina becomes attached to her new teacher.

One day, Nao knows about bruises on Reina and realizes that she is the victim of child abuse. At first Nao doesn't say anything, but Nao notices more bruises with each passing day and Reina's absences from school become more frequent. Nao's maternal instincts kicks in and she decides to take care of Reina. Nao & Reina then takes a train from their native Hokkaido to Tokyo ...

As a child, Park Hoon and his father were kidnapped by North Korea. In North Korea, Park Hoon was trained to become a doctor by his father who was already a doctor. Park Hoon became a genius like chest surgeon. He then flees to South Korea.

Park Hoon begins to work as a doctor in South Korea's top hospital Myungwoo University Hospital, but he feels like a complete outsider. To bring his love from North Korea, he does anything to make money.

A kidnapper disappeared 15 years ago without a trace. Five days before the case's statute of limitations expires, someone anonymously leaves a flower at the crime scene. A few days later, another kidnapping takes place using the same method on a similar target. Three people team up to solve the case before it's too late: the grandfather (Song Young-chang), who lost his granddaughter right in front of him, the mother (Uhm Jung-hwa), who has been searching for the person who abducted her daughter 15 years ago, and the detective with a guilty conscience (Kim Sang-kyung), who puts everything into this long-unsolved case.