Asian Drama

Park Do Ra is a bright, brave woman with a challenging personality who became a top actress because her mother, Baek Mi Ja, said it was the only way to escape poverty. After earning fame and fortune as a top star, all Do Ra wants to do is rest and enjoy her riches, but her mother keeps causing trouble. Mi Ja always adorns herself in luxury, even more than any top star, thanks to Do Ra's success. However, Mi Ja wants more. Do Ra can't handle her tight schedule due to Mi Ja's desires and wants to quit her new drama "Straightforward Romance," but she can't because she met her first love, Go Pil Sung, the assistant director.

Pil Sung is passionate about his job but tries to leave "Straightforward Romance" because of Do Ra, who was very particular to him when he was young. Unfortunately, an unusual assignment to exclusively lead her falls in his lap. Will Do Ra find her happiness by escaping her mother's never-ending desires?

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Episodes: 50

Duration: 1 hr. 20 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

It's the graduation season again in Shanghai's Lujiazui Financial City. Tao Wu Ji, a young man from a small town, was admitted to the Pudong branch of a bank. He started as a teller at the lowest level. Tao Wu Ji was diligent and determined to make progress, relying on his own abilities and emotional intelligence. He stood out and was selected by Zhao Hui, vice president of the branch, to be recruited into the "Sunshine Project" project. Zhao Hui saw the shadow of his own youth in Tao Wu Ji and cultivated him carefully; Tao Wu Ji also followed Zhao Hui's example and gradually found the meaning and direction of his work in the bank. But in the face of interests, temptations, and favors, Tao Wu Ji's spiritual mentor, Zhao Hui, made mistakes step by step and fell deeper and deeper into the quagmire. Miao Che, the head of the branch's audit department, was upright and resisted pressure from all parties to investigate Zhao Hui, an old classmate and colleague.

Jian Ke Ke, a super frugal white-collar worker not looking for love, meets the spendthrift Wang Hai Kuo. Fashionista Elly and Jian Ke Ke dislike each other. The sweetheart Sun Jia Li meets a silly and cute college student Li Yuan Chong. How will the bunch with completely different values choose between love and money?

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Co-production with Singapore.

Episodes: 24

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Aired On: Sunday

50 years ago, a match between a Chinese and a Japanese karate expert ended in a dead heat. Together, they wrote a martial arts book that has caused storms across the martial arts world ever since. In 2019, Chong Wai fought hard and defeated her Japanese rival to win her first karate championship. However, the match left her seriously injured. Meanwhile, in Japan, Saori Kisaragi goes through hardships and is shunned by her teammates because of the martial arts book. When she learns of Chong, who has defeated one of her senior clan members, she travels to Hong Kong to challenge Chong and to find the book. When the Hong Kong karate team withdrew from the Tokyo Olympics, Chong was devastated as she felt that her years of training had been wasted. She stays away from all things related to karate while her friend Chi Ho manages the dojo, hoping for Chong to return. Chong finds an office job and meets her boss, Darwin, who takes good care of her. On the day Chong packs up her personal belongings at the sports institute, Kisaragi comes and challenges her. Chong’s teammate Tin Oi fights on her behalf and is instantly defeated. Chong is dumbfounded. Kisaragi throws down the gauntlet before she leaves.

Sex counselor Mok Tai-hung (Eddie Cheung) and sex therapist Lam Ching-yee (Sharon Chan) have been dating for five years. The two love each other very much and want to take their relationship to the next step by getting married. But Ching-yee's strict and conservative mother Liu Doi-lam, is highly against them being together due to Tai-hung's financial status, him being a bit older than her daughter and also him having a son from a previous relationship. Tai-hung puts up with Ching-yee's mother bias of him and hopes she will come around one day. After the two are married they still find roadblocks in their relationship as Tai-hung constantly has to put up with his new mother in-law to show he is the perfect son in-law. While Ching-yee has to adjust to life at Tai-hung's family home and tries not to offend her mother in-law who overly tries to be helpful but only makes matters worst. Tai-hung's immature friend Kam Cheung (Louis Yuen) once lived an affluent life, until he was swindled out of his inheritance. Now he lives a desolated life in a small rundown apartment where he can't even afford to pay his electric bill. When he cons Tai-hung's equally immature younger sister Mok Siu-tou (Elena Kong) into lending him money to start his underwear business, he didn't expect her to cling onto him until he repays her. Tai-hung helps Cheung repay his debt to Siu-tou, Cheung does not learn his lesson and uses Siu-tou's identity as a co-signer when he takes out a loan from loan sharks. Meanwhile, Ching-yee's uncle Liu Chun-cheung (Benz Hui), who is in his late middle age is getting married for the first time. His much younger newly wed wife Tong Tim-tim (May Chan) just immigrated to Hong Kong from mainland China, not long after marrying Chun-cheung. Ching-yee's mother Liu Doi-lam. who has taken care of her dependent older brother all her life does not trust Tim-tim and is afraid that Tim-tim will con her brother, even when the entire family tells her, Chun-cheung doesn't have anything worth conning. The problem with Chun-cheung and Tim-tim's marriage is, he finds himself unable to keep up with his wife's sex drive as she wants to have intimacy every night. Even with the help of his friends in helping him avoid having sex with his wife each night, Chun-cheung finds himself unable to resist Tim-tim when she is in costume for foreplay. At Ching-yee's younger sister's high school, extreme conservative literature teacher To Tak-kee (Sammy Sum), feels that all the students should be like him, remain a virgin until marriage. When he sees students from his ultra conservative all girls school mingle with the opposite sex from another school he goes as far as to stalk them after school and then telling them to stop seeing the male students from the other school or else he will tell their parents. When Tak-kee finds out that fellow teacher Emma Chung (Grace Wong) lives a promiscuous life outside of work he threatens to tell the school principle. Emma won't allow him the chance to tell the principle about her secret lifestyle, when she tries to seduce him and then uses that against him.

A young boy with insurmountable potential starts on an adventure to become a great hero who fights on the side of good. Along the way, he forms lasting friendships and finds love. Mu Chen was born in the Mu region. His father is the Mu Chief, but a series of tragic events forced his mother to abandon Mu Chen early in his life. Mu Chen swore to become strong, seek out his mother, and reunite with her. Mu Chen’s natural talents give him the chance to cultivate his skills for competition. During his training, he saves a young girl, Luo Li, and the two quickly fall in love. In order to find his birth mother, Mu Chen leaves his hometown and enters the earthly world to face dark forces and save his loved ones.

It was a vacation that they will never forget. Shen Xi (Vivian Sung) is a peppy college student who is majoring in dance but loves to eat just a little too much. He Zhi Zhou (Tong Meng Shi) is an aloof, moody engineering major at a nearby university. While Shen Xi goes on vacation with a group of her girlfriends, Zhi Zhou also is on vacation with his engineering friends at the same location. During the vacation, Shen Xi falls into the water at the same time that Zhi Zhou is struck by lightning! They end up swapping souls, and Zhi Zhou suddenly finds himself in the body of Shen Xi and Shen Xi finds herself inside the body of Zhi Zhou. While Shen Xi is delighted by the wonders of her new body and the fact that she can now get close to her crush, who happens to be one of Zhi Zhou’s roommates, Zhi Zhou is freaked out about being stuck inside a woman’s body. What will become of this soul-swapping duo? “Proud of Love” is a 2016 Chinese drama series directed by Shen Qin Yuan. It is adapted from the novel “Don’t Be So Proud” by Sui Hou Zhu.

A guardian of the stars, Chi Yu, is charged with maintaining the balance of power in the cosmos. When he loses the key to his power, the precious Sun Moon Jade, he’s forced to wander the realm of mortals in a desperate attempt to find it.

Wandering Earth, he finds himself drawn to a strong female general who eventually captures his heart. Desperate to keep her with him always, Chi Yu attempts to rewrite her fate and in so doing, dooms her to die at the age of thirty in each of her subsequent lives.

As punishment for his actions, Chi Yu is imprisoned in the stars for 3,000 years. Once free, he vows to fix the problems he caused and so returns to Earth. Lifetimes have passed since his last visit and much has changed but none so much as the reincarnation of his lost love. A big-time film producer, Wen Xi, is nothing like the woman he remembers, but Chi Yu refuses to let her go until he’s made amends.

Will Chi Yu be able to right millennia of wrongs? Can a fate so detrimentally entwined really end in true love?

"What's Da Bao Bao" is a 2015 Chinese web series directed by Cong Er and Zhang Shuo.

The drama has themes of time-travel and is basically about a character who gets to travel back in time to protect his first love. Kang Bae Ho (Yoo Seung Ho) and Ham Yi Seul (Park Eun Bin) have been best friends since elementary school. Baek Ho fell long ago for the lively and cheerful Yi Seul. But Yi Seul is about to get married to another man. Baek Ho and his friends are invited to the wedding. Right there in the wedding ceremony, Baek Ho regrets that he didn’t confess his love to the bride. A fairy appears gives him a second chance to win the girl he loves. The fairy sends Baek Ho to travel back to the past, to the all moments he has with the bride. He gets sent back in time, and this time he’s determined to protect his first love. He re-creates that moments, tries to get the bride’s heart. Baek Ho will try to confess his feelings and win Yi Seul’s heart by trying to fix the past in order to change his and Yi Seul’s future. In the end, will he success? ~koreandrama.org

The revival project for AKBINGO!. The participating members would be picked from the top of the member leaderboards in the mobile card game AKB48 no Dobbon! Hitorijime! (AKB48のどっぼーん！ひとりじめ！), in which players can contribute points to support members of their choice, by the end of the month.

Areum becomes a single mother while studying in the US and returns home. And here is a man named Seongwoon who is deeply hurt by his family. One day, Aaron Choi, the biological father of Areum's child shows up in front of them. Seongwoon decides to take care of the child and protects her from Aaron who seems to be busy enjoying his life. "Love & Secret" features these three characters who challenge themselves to succeed in their career, love, and family business.