Asian Drama

A female college student has fallen from a building. Cheng Rui, the deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment who is new to his post, has been commissioned by deputy director Du Yulin to investigate the case.

During his investigation, Cheng Rui discovers that the woman's death is related to crimes like fraud masked as loans and subsequent violence from aggressive debt collectors.

Businessman An Yiming has been listed as a key target for investigation. Cheng Rui wants to look into the case further but he has been asked to close the case as soon as possible. In a city full of danger, An Yiming's wife Zhou Tong and economics professor Zhao Xianyu are caught in the fray. Cheng Rui and his colleagues are deep into the case without realizing that there is a bigger conspiracy behind it.

Duration: 1 hr. 52 min.

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Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Saturday

In the late 1970s, on the steam train from Ningyang to Hacheng, young conductor Wang Xin diligently performed his duties among the bustling passengers. Mistaking the old railway policeman Ma Kui for a fugitive, they began an unlikely mentor-disciple relationship. From initial dislike to mutual respect, Wang Xin and Ma Kui fought side by side on the front line of railway public security. They tackled issues such as theft, abduction, drug enforcement, patrolling, and combating thefts and robberies, always prioritizing the safety of every passenger, and selflessly safeguarding the security of trains travelling between north and south. Wang Xin and Ma Kui passed on the torch of railway police across generations, witnessing the development of China's railways from steam locomotives to electric locomotives and then to high-speed trains, witnessing the rapid changes in China.

Seo Jae Won has near perfect personal and work lives. She is the CEO of a successful furniture company and is a social media influencer with over a million followers. She scouts designer Yoon Teo to become the general manager of design at her company. In her personal life, Jae Won has a beloved husband, Heo Soon Young, and their lovely child. Soon Young is warm-hearted and hardly ever bursts out in an anger. After their marriage, Soon Young prioritizes his family over everything else.

Kwon Yun Jin graduated in the same university art department as Jae Won. She's experiencing a difficult time with her divorce and her art career is quickly fading. After she reconnects with Jae Won, she becomes jealous of her near-perfect life. Jae Won’s life soon changes as she is betrayed by people who she trusts and she faces secrets that people around her hide.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

It tells the legendary story of Di Renjie who is known for his crime-solving abilities. Di Renjie has conquered the imperial examinations and awaits his official appointment in Chang'an. However, he was suddenly dispatched by Empress Wu Zetian to a border town where he encounters many mysteries. Di Renjie stands up to the challenge of upholding the duty of the higher judiciary to bring peace and prosperity to the people.

(Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Two versions available: 30 episodes (TV) || 32 episodes (Online).

Episodes: 36

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

In 1999, Young Mi, cruelly nicknamed “Ms. Apocalypse,” develops a crush on a married man who is imprisoned for embezzlement. Young Mi ends up imprisoned for aiding his crime. When she is released, her crush’s wife, Yu Jin, visits, offering to pay off her husband’s debt. Yet, because Yu Jin is physically disabled, Young Mi feels uneasy about taking her money. The two women eventually begin to live together. Their story is poignant yet consistently cheery, enlivening, and energetic.

(Source: BIFF)

Release dates: Oct 5, 2023 (Festival) || Jan 24, 2024 (Cinema)

Duration: 1 hr. 56 min.

Cho Yeo Hwa has been a widow for 15 years. Her in-laws are the most prestigious noble family in the area. During the day, she lives quietly at home and never goes outside. But, during the night, Yeo Hwa secretly jumps over the surrounding wall and takes care of people who need help. In the process, she gets involved with Park Soo Ho, and she begins to dream about her future. Meanwhile, Soo Ho is a senior officer. He is good at his job and has an attractive appearance.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 12

Airs On: Friday, Saturday

Hajime Madoka is a police officer in the Special Accounts Section and has been dispatched from the headquarter to Mancho Police Station with a special order to cut costs. Madoka oversees the budget used on investigations and proposes cost-cutting measures to the detectives. At the same time, Madoka looks at cases from the angle of "money" and solves them using her unique methods.

(Source: DramaWiki)

Episodes: 11

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Monday

Remake of the Spanish movie "The Invisible Guest" (Contratiempo) [2017].

Shinno Akari is a detective with a special ability. She is able to see the eight human emotions in color. Due to a case, she teams up with Detective Kazehaya Ryo. They work together to reveal the truth behind heinous crimes.

The story follows Lee Tang, an ordinary college student, who gets into an argument with a customer during a part-time job at a convenience store at night, unconsciously swings a hammer, and kills him. Suffering from guilt and fear of murder, Lee Tang learns one day that the person he killed was a serial killer and slowly realizes that he has a supernatural ability to identify "bad seeds". He soon becomes a dark hero who punishes people who committed unethical evils in the past.

A cold-blooded, charismatic and persistent detective starts to chase Lee Tang.

(Source: nbntv.co.kr)

Adapted from the webtoon "Sarinjaonangam" (살인자ㅇ난감).

Episodes: 8

Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

Airs On: Friday

Yaemori Arisu runs a small restaurant named Alice’s Kitchen. She has autism spectrum disorder, which leads her to be stubborn at times and generally poor at communicating with other people. Her condition also allows her to have a phenomenal memory. She became interested in chemistry due to her single father, Yaemori Shingo, who teaches chemistry at a university. With her vast knowledge of chemistry, she understands nutrients and the cooking process from a scientific viewpoint. Her cooking skills are extraordinary, and her food always pleases.

At her restaurant, she works with her childhood friend Mitsumata Kazusa. Even though the restaurant is quite popular, they are the only two employees who work there. While Alice cooks dishes in the kitchen, Mitsumata is in charge of greeting and serving food to the customers.

One day, a young man named Sakae Kosei appears at the restaurant and asks to work there as a live-in part-time worker. Since then, Yaemori Arisu has experienced a big change in her life.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Sunday

The murder of Sudo Isao, a used car dealer, occurs in Shizuoka Prefecture in 2008. Detective Kusaka Satoru of the Shizuoka Prefectural Police’s Susuno Precinct, checks his background. He learns that Sudo’s young son Obata Mamoru from a previous marriage, died in a kidnapping incident in Shizuoka in 1974. In 1988, with just one year before the statute of limitation on the kidnapping case ran out, a special investigation unit was formed under the instructions of the Shizuoka Prefectural Police’s police chief Hashibami Yasuhide. Shigeto Seiichiro, who rose to the rank of superintendent despite being a non-career officer, became the director and led a group of six capable detectives in the re-investigation. Kusaka cannot comprehend why Sudo, who lived in Tokyo more than 20 years after the death of his son, was murdered in Shizuoka Prefecture. He instinctively knows that delving into the kidnap and murder of the child will shed light on the case. Kusaka visits Shigeto who has left the police for a long time and searches for clues. He makes contact with Mamoru’s mother Saeko and her older sister Rie, and gradually draws near the real culprit.

Dong, an aspiring actor who is finally getting a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fame, wakes up with a dead woman, Meng, beside him. Unable to piece together the night before, Dong is determined not to let it stand in his way. He cleans up the scene and sets it up like a robbery went wrong, but unknowingly leaves traces of himself to be found. While the police search the apartment, it turns out all the residents have something to hide. Unravelling the cause of Meng’s death proves difficult, as everyone seems to have a motive for this murder...

(Source: pavilion.taicca.tw; edited by olivestulip at MyDramaList)

Episodes: 8

Duration: 45 min.

Aired On: Wednesday

Writer Hua Qing Ge transforms into a character within the world of her own novels. She thought she was in control of the script, but falling in love with Ji Chu was not part of the plan.

(Source: Baidu)

Episodes: 36

Duration: 30 min.

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

Paramet is a wealthy widower in conflict with his daughter Pin over his decision to marry Rata. Rata is a younger woman who Pin believes wants nothing more than to inherit her father's assets. The conflict exacerbates until the day Paramet has a fatal heart attack and comes back in the body of a younger man.

Kim Baek Doo participates in the traditional Korean wrestling sport of ssireum and is a member of the ssireum team for the Geosan County Office. Baek Doo was born as the youngest son of a prestigious ssireum family. In the past, he was known as a genius like ssireum wrestler, but not anymore. He is thinking about retiring from the sport altogether. One day, Baek Doo meets his childhood friend Oh Yoo Kyung and has a turning point in his ssireum life. Yoo Kyung and Baek Doo grew up together in Geosan County. She begins to work as a leader of the management team for the ssireum team, which is on the verge of disbanding.

Meanwhile, they have people around them like Min Hyun Wook, who suddenly appears at Geosan County and adjusts well to life here, and Joo Mi Ran, who is a mysterious cafe owner. There's also the new coach, Kwak Jin Soo, of the ssireum team and Cho Seok Hee, who is Baek Doo’s best friend and works as a police constable.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

The external environment and the emotions of others are huge stimuli to the "highly sensitive" policewoman Yao Zi Ru, but her keen sense of touch can help solve the case.

Before sin, most people were just "spectators." But there are more "perpetrators" than criminals in the world, because of cold violence, and emotional abuse... It's not a crime.

Until they met the restaurant owner, Wang Mi Xi, who had the same empathy, and the two fell in love.

The perpetrators who had been at large in the past were killed, and there were traces of burning sage next to their bodies. "Sage Killer" wants to purify the world. The policewoman pursued it freely, but she never thought that the killer was Mi Xi. Mi Xi does not want to be a bystander but uses extreme means. You can only make painful choices...

(Source: inf.news)

Episodes: 20

This is the story of a chief inspector in the anti-narcotics unit who holds true to his beliefs as a police officer. He puts everything on the line to crack down on drugs and bring drug traffickers to justice. How will our hero resolve this “bursting point” crisis?

(Source: thefilmcatalogue.com)

The story of Song Ci who is the originator of forensic medicine.

(Source: ChineseDrama.info)

Episodes: 25

Duration: 38 min.

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

Two years after Iruma Michio left first criminal court ("Ichikei") of the Tokyo District Court, he now works as a judge at Setouchi in Okayama Prefecture. He currently has an injury case involving Japan's youngest ever Minister of Defense.

Meanwhile, Sakama Chizuru works as a lawyer, following the system of judges' gain other work experience. She is currently working on a case involving a large local company. Her case is located in a neighboring town from where Iruma Michio works. Their two cases seem totally unrelated, but a secret is revealed between the two cases.

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

A love-hate drama series that follows Noyama Honoka as a florist shop owner who finds her comfortable life messed up by distrust and suspicion when she receives a letter that her newlywed husband Masamichi is hiding a secret from her. As time goes on, she begins to become suspicious of the women around Masamichi, and her negative emotions develop into ones of betrayal and revenge.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Thursday

Following the showdown with his arch nemesis Ando, Detective Ango Ishikawa takes on a new case with his uncanny ability to communicate with the dead.

Satake Junko has been arrested as the main suspect in the serial killing of 5 men. The news is making sensational headlines in variety and talk shows too. Tanabe Junko is a journalist who starts investigating into the murders, with the hope of getting a scoop out of it. She contacted Shinoda Junko, an ex-middle high school classmate of Satake, who claims to be buddies with her. Shinoda invited Tanabe to come up to her office for a chat. Meanwhile, having seen Tanabe on TV, Fukutome Junko, an ex-colleague of hers, called her up and invited her to her home. Tanabe paid her a visit, thinking she has a lead on the case, but instead, Fukutome, now a housewife, just keeps talking about her problem with the hierarchy within her company housing complex.

Then one day, a man calls her, claiming that he may have been an intended victim of Satake. A man who is the son of another woman named Junko... by WOWOW

Guan Yu, who was a soldier, has a meticulous mind, rigorous style, and extremely hard physical and mental quality. He has solved numerous major and small cases. From a simple and fierce little white criminal policeman, he has grown all the way to a wise and experienced Lanhe County Criminal Police Team Captain. Guan Yu's physical condition went from bad to worse after being promoted to captain of the criminal police. After the 1223 major case, Guan Yu was faced with danger. Under the pressure of time, pressure from superiors, and the loss of relatives and comrades in arms, the black hand of evil is still hidden under the glacier. In the face of this case with many intertwined and implicated cases, can Guan Yu hold high the light of justice and the fire of hope in his hands?

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Episodes: 12

A woman who inherits a gravesite under mysterious circumstances as her family's history starts to unravel.

(Source: The Swoon Netflix)

Episodes: 6

Airs On: Friday

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

The Profilers are back and still trying to get rid of crime in the world! To fight against the vicious criminals that have spread all over the world, the group has moved on from a beginners class to an intermediate class. Lead profiler Kwon Il Yong reunites with the aspiring team of profilers and a new face that will bring new ideas and emotions as they upgrade to the next level. They should demonstrate their collective deductive skills to prove they are the best team of profilers! Will the be able to do it?

(Source: Korean = TVING)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

It seems like a car accident by chance, but it hides a huge secret. Yang Qing, a writer oppressed by her controlling and mad husband Yin Hong, has amnesia after a car accident. When searching for memories, various clues indicate that her mind and her body wasn't her, and her every move was under her husband's supervision. Can Yang Qing escape from this trap?

(Source: Chinese = Tencent)

Episodes: 18

Duration: 7 min.

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

When Wen Tong, the red thief, and Gu Jin Cheng join forces to investigate an unsolved case of disappearance, their clues lead them to more unsolved cases that only get more complicated and dangerous. Will they be able to find the truth amidst the turbulent forces against them?

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Episodes: 25

Duration: 10 min.

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

Mysterious deaths befall on employees of a VR-tech company. There's an unprecedented fear waiting between reality and the virtual world.

(Source: IMDb)

Duration: 1 hr. 49 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Cha Se Eum used to be a violinist, but she is now a conductor of an orchestra. She has pursued her career boldly and with passion. She is now in a position where others are envious. What others don't know is that Cha Se Eum carries a secret. That secret will shake her life.

Meanwhile, mysterious cases take place within her orchestra. Cha Se Eum looks into the cases and approaches the truth surrounding her.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Remake of the French TV series “Philharmonia" [2019].

Episodes: 12

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Saturday, Sunday

Horror story about mysterious events happened 20 years before. It creates a story about vengeance that leads nowadays.