Asian Drama

One a bright spring day before a school trip, Se Mi, falls asleep on one side of the classroom, and suddenly awakens in tears over an ominous dream. She runs to Ha Eun, who is in the hospital after injuring her leg in a bicycle accident. Se Mi and Ha Eun are best friends. The film depicts a special day between the two.

(Source: Jung Han Seok at biff.kr)

Release dates: October 9, 2022 (Festival) | October 25, 2023 (Cinema)

Duration: 1 hr. 58 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

A series of murders occurred in Yunyin Town, causing panic among the people. They decided to hold a grand ceremony in honor of the River God to pray for peace. Physician Tao Ran was assigned to investigate the serial murders. While solving the cases with his apprentice, Tao Ran accidentally saved a little fox named Hua Zhi, who witnessed one of the crimes and also made friends with the heavy-drinking wandering sorcerer, Mr. Xiao, and together, they joined forces to crack the case.

In the thick of it, an embroidery workshop caught their eye, and the truth slowly came to light. As it turned out, the bizarre happenings were all tied to the grand River God ceremony...

(Source: YoYo Movie Official Channel)

Duration: 1 hr. 15 min.

Many years ago, dressed in a suit, Zhou Ke broke into a gang den alone and rescued his brother Ba Nuo, but was eventually arrested and imprisoned. Fast forward a few years, Zhou Ke is released from prison and lives a carefree life in the city under the pseudonym Li Fei. However, the undercurrents in the calm streets are surging, and the new wave of evil is even more horrific. This time, where should Zhou Ke go?

(Source: iQIYI)

Duration: 1 hr. 40 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Yeon Joo, who is judging short films at a film festival, is embarrassed when she sees Seon Min's film based on the same story as her screenplay. She calls Seon Min and tries to find out the whole story, but Seon Min's explanation was that she just wrote what she experienced and Yeon Joo's stance that she cannot believe it only made the situation tense. In order to reveal what happened to Seon Min, the two head to Gyeongju to meet the visually impaired couple who appeared in the movie. There, you will watch the reading play written by a visually impaired person. As their second destination, they head to Woljeongsa Temple on Odaesan Mountain in Gangneung, which appears in the background of Seon Min's movie. After meeting the monk, both Yeon Joo and Seon Min learn that they have a connection to the monk, but their misunderstanding is not easily resolved. The two break up, and Yeon Joo visits Director Kim, the male protagonist in the movie.

(Source: HanCinema)

Duration: 1 hr. 59 min.

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).

Tells the story of the Japanese, puppet, and Communist Party infiltrating each other during the Anti-Japanese War in 1940, and Nanjing folded into an adult hell. CCP ace agents Jin Shen Shui and Lin Ying Ying and a group of dedicated agents.

In Nanjing in 1940, various forces were intertwined and internal fighting continued. With family sorrows, Jin Shen Shui and Lin Ying Ying join forces for survival. In the process of self-protection, they discovered the brutal "Spring Thunder Plan" of the Japanese army. In order to protect their homes and defend the country, the two of them walked on the tip of a knife with a mortal heart.

(Source: douban and IGN china)

Duration: 2 hr. 1 min.

The story takes place during a summer of continuous sunshine when water supply restrictions are issued in the city. Shunsaku Iwakiri works for the city's water department and his job is to visit homes and stores that are behind on their bills and either collect the money or shut off the water supply (water suspension enforcement). Shunsaku is separated from his wife and children, and his heart grows thirsty as he spends his days visiting poor households and being abhorred. One day, during a water shutoff, Shunsaku meets two young sisters who have been neglected. He sees them as his own children and offers them a helping hand.

Adapted from the novel "Kassui" (渇水) by Kawabayashi Mitsuru (河林満).

Duration: 1 hr. 39 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

The movie revolves around the protagonist of the story, Japanese rock musician Miyavi, portraying himself and his adventures when he goes back 20 years in time.

Duration: 1 hr. 6 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Has the world suddenly split into four? Keiwa Sakurai, Neon Kurama, Michinaga Azuma, and Tsumuri are flung into different worlds. And for some reason, a different Ace exists in each of the four worlds. The cause seems to be from the "World Doomsday Game" started by the staff from the future. In light of this crisis, the mysterious X-Geats appears. Just what will happen to Ace and his friends?

(Source: kamenrider.wikia.com)

Duration: 60 min.

Three unlikely thieves break into a mansion looking for the cash they believe its owner is hiding, only to encounter unexpected complications.

(Source: Netflix)

Episodes: 1

Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Aired On: Wednesday

Hinata is murdered again by the Tokyo Manjikai Gang in front of Takemichi. In order to save Hinata, Takemichi travels 10 years back in time again. Takemichi has to change a key case that can save Hinata. The key case involves a sad incident that occurred to 6 men, who later formed the Tokyo Manjikai Gang.

Adapted from the manga series "Tokyo Revengers" (東京卍リベンジャーズ) by Wakui Ken (和久井健).

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.

Set 2 years after Sangenya Machi and Yashiro Dai left Teiko Real Estate's Shinjuku office.

The real estate office has seen a steep decline in business due to competition. Niwano Seiji visits Sangenya Machi for help, but he is surprised to see her holding a baby.

The next day, Sangenya appears at Teiko Real Estate and deals with customers who are having problems.

A crime action thriller about the process of chasing and being chased by a murder suspect and a homicide detective.

Zhi Li is one of the centers of the textile industry and people around rural areas flock there for work. They toil away tirelessly, live in squalid conditions, face prejudice from their families, and have to fight for better pay.

Duration: 3 hr. 32 min.

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Duration: 1 hr. 20 min.

The one-hundred-year-old Fujiya Inn stands in the quiet region of Kyoto. Mikoto is standing at the back of the building in front of the Kibune river when she is called back to work. But two minutes later, she finds herself back at the river again. The whole inn seems to be stuck in a time loop!

(Source: TMDb)

Duration: 1 hr. 26 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

Wang Xilin, 86, is one of China’s most important modern classical composers. During the Cultural Revolution he was the target of severe persecution, enduring beatings, imprisonment and torture. With excerpts from his Symphonies, he revisits for this film some of the horrifying events that still live on in his memory as testimony to an era that saw the dehumanization of the entire Chinese nation.

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Duration: 1 hr. 33 min.

In the Edo period, at the remote village of Okitsu, the evil cult leader Koushirou uses ninjutsu to bewitch sharks and forces them to attack local pearl divers so the cult can steal the pearls from their mangled corpses. Desperate for help, the village chief hires Kotaro Shiozaki, a guard at a nearby temple, but Kotaro soon finds his path blocked by lady ninja Kikuma and a gigantic shark that doesn't seem like something from this world.

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

Toshihide works as a doctor at a clinic located by the sea. One day, he meets Ako. She looks exactly like the woman he admires. Due to her, his heart flutters. Soon, Toshihide realizes that Ako is not his ideal woman. A case leads to Ako to begin living with Toshihide and his family. Living with the warm-hearted family, Ako slowly regains herself and becomes a person with a truthful and honest mind.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Duration: 1 hr. 53 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

"Ice Cream Fever" tells the story of four women whose ages range from their teens to thirties, and their lives intersect at an ice cream shop.

Adapted from the short story "Aisukurimu Netsu" (アイスクリーム熱) from the collection "Ai no Yume Toka" (愛の夢とか) by Kawakami Mieko.

A town with no future and no hope.

Seventeen-year-old Yeon Gyu was born in this place and has never been anywhere else. While enduring the repeated violence inflicted by his stepfather, he saves up money in the lone hope of moving to the Netherlands with his mother. Chi Geon, born and raised in this town, is now a mid-level boss in a criminal organization. Having learned early in life that this world is hell, he gets by in his own way.

One day Yeon Gyu gets into a fight to protect his stepsister Ha Yan. Unable to raise the settlement money, Yeon Gyu is helped by Chi Geon, and in that way Yeon Gyu comes to start a new life as a member of Chi Geon’s gang. Although scared and awkward, Yeon Gyu gradually adjusts with the help of Chi Ggeon who is like an older brother to him. Having earned Chi Geon’s trust while fighting to survive in the gang, Yeon Gyu begins to fall into more and more dangerous circumstances.

In order to escape from hell, they become a part of it.

(Source: International Festival de Cannes press kit)

The film tells the story of a father’s revenge after his daughter’s murder.

A fisherman, Lao Jin, finds out his daughter was murdered while studying in Japan and is determined to avenge his daughter. Meanwhile, Li Miao Miao, the victim’s boyfriend and biggest suspect, has avoided persecution by returning to China with the help of his parents.

(Source: cfensi)

Adapted from the novel "She Guo Fen Nu Di Hai" by Lao Huang.

Duration: 2 hr. 24 min.

Set in the 1960's, high school student Watanabe Toru loses his only friend Kizuki after he commits suicide. Toru, now looking for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, Toru meets Kizuki's ex-girlfriend Naoko in the university. They grow close because they both share the same loss.

As Toru and Naoko grow even closer, Naoko's sense of loss also grows. After Naoko's 20th birthday, she leaves for a sanitarium in Kyoto. Toru, devastated by the situation, meets pure-hearted Midori during the spring semester. Midori looks like a small animal that just came into the world.

Duration: 2 hr. 13 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Taka, a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his brother, Mune. Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl along the way, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet shop owners.

(Source: IMDb)

Duration: 1 hr. 28 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

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"G-Men" follows the story of Shouta Kadomatsu, who transfers to an all boys school in hopes of finding a girlfriend, as the school is surrounded by four all-girls schools. A rumor at his school states that there is a 120% of losing your virginity before graduation, however, Shouta finds himself in class G, which is the lowest ranked class in the entire school, and is filled with delinquents, nerds and losers - the types of guys girls aren't interested in.

(Source: anilist)

Adapted from the manga series "G Men" (Gメン) by Ozawa Toshio (小沢としお).

Duration: 2 hr. 0 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

Heeding the words of a fortune teller, Phloeng becomes engaged to Rawi, a boy from the countryside. Both enter into it reluctantly. Disbelieving the prophecy but appeasing his parents, Phloeng agrees to the arrangement on the condition that, should six months pass without the relationship deepening, he'll call it off.

Throughout his stay with Phloeng's family, Rawi is haunted by a spirit. When he begins staying with Phloeng, however, the spirit is quiet. It soon becomes clear that whatever is haunting the house is focused entirely on Rawi.

Adapted from the novel "Dap Saeng Rawi" (ดับแสงรวี) by CEO.

Set in China, during the Warring States Period. The powerful neighboring country of Zhao suddenly attacks Qin. Shin, who dreamed of becoming a great general, fights against Zhao.

(Source: Asianwiki)

Adapted from the manga series "Kingdom" (キングダム) by Hara Yasuhisa (原泰久).

Duration: 2 hr. 9 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

This true story retells the incredible tale of the 2012 National High School Basketball Championship, in which a new coach and six players from the weakest basketball team ran nonstop for eight days.