A Title that has Been Remade Again by the Original Country
Help each other out and add titles that are have remakes/adaptations from the original country (i.e. the original country has 2+ titles/versions of the same story).
Feel free to explain your choice in the comment section or send us a link of your own to a list with titles that fit the description to this prompt.
MDL Watch Challenge 2024 Dec 10, 2023
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![The Beauty Inside]()
What would you do if you woke up with a new face every day? Woo Jin, a man who designs furniture for a living, is used to this. An elderly man, a ...more -
![Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha]()
After a conflict with her boss, dentist Yoon Hye Jin escapes the city to a seaside village where she'd vacationed to before as a little girl. When she learns the village is ...more -
![Something about 1 Percent]()
Growing up in a wealthy family, Lee Jae In had the best of everything. As an adult he was smart, good looking, had a well-paying job, in short, it seemed like he ...more -
![Bad Genius]()
Lynn, a genius high school student who makes money by cheating tests, receives a new task that leads her to set foot on Sydney, Australia. In order to complete the millions-Baht task, ...more -
![Ao Haru Ride Season 2]()
Yoshioka Futaba was once a middle school student who fell for her warm-hearted classmate Tanaka Kou. But young love proved to be cruel, and the duo was separated due to circumstances beyond ...more -
![Ao Haru Ride]()
At the end of the first year of high school, Yoshioka Futaba meets Tanaka Kou, who was her first love. In their middle school days, they attended the same school, but he ...more -
![Blue Spring Ride]()
When she was a middle school student, Yoshioka Futaba liked Tanaka Kou, who was unlike the other boys and quite gentle. Kou then moved away, and they lost contact. At the end ...more -
![Mr. Hong]()
Hong Doo Shik, there is something special about him. He's a good-looking 31-year-old man who knows everything and knows how to do everything: He's a delivery man for a Chinese restaurant. He's ...more -
![Kimi wa Petto]()
In education, career, and appearance... Sumire is perfect, too perfect for even her boyfriend, who summarily dumps her. Also sexually harassed at work, Sumire takes matters into her own hands. Returning home ...more -
![From Me to You]()
Well-meaning but socially awkward, Kuronuma Sawako is nicknamed "Sadako" by her high school classmates because of her similar hair style with the main character from the horror movie "Ring." She doesn't have ...more -
![The Gifted]()
Ritdha Wittayakom High School has a "Gifted Program." The program offers special classes to a handful of "special" students chosen by the school administration. Incredibly, Pang, a tenth-year student from the lowest ...more -
![Kimi wa Petto]()
29-year-old Iwaya Sumire has had a bad day. Make that the worst of all bad days. She has been dumped by her boyfriend of 5 years when she was anticipating a marriage ...more -
![Itazura na Kiss: Love in Tokyo]()
At a high school entrance ceremony, high school student Aihara Kotoko, who isn't that smart, notices the pretty boy Irie Naoki. She falls in love with him immediately. Kotoko initially doesn't express ...more -
![From Me to You]()
Well-meaning but socially awkward, Kuronuma Sawako is nicknamed "Sadako" by her high school classmates because of her similar hair style with the main character from the horror movie "Ring." She doesn't have ...more -
![Love O2O]()
Xiao Nai is a gaming expert who, courtesy of his basketball skills, academic excellence, swimming talent, and game company presidency, also happens to be the most popular student on campus. When he ...more -
![Ditto]()
In 1999, Yong studies mechanical engineering at a university. He first entered the school in 1995, but took time off to perform his mandatory military service. After finishing his military service, he ...more -
![Papa to Musume no Nanokakan]()
Kawahara Kome is a female high school student and she has feelings for Osugi Kenta. He is the ace player on their school's soccer team. Osugi Kenta is sincere, diligent and a ...more -
![Hana Yori Dango]()
~~ Adapted from the manga “Hana Yori Dango” (花より男子) by Kamio Yoko (神尾葉子). -
![Ditto]()
'Ditto' focuses on a female university student from 1979 who begins talking via HAM radio with another student from her school. They hope to meet, but through a series of misunderstandings, she ...more -
![Perfect World]()
Architect Ayukawa Itsuki is paralyzed from the waist down. Although he was the ace of the basketball team back in high school, he injured his spinal cord in an accident while in ...more -
![My Sassy Girl]()
Gyun Woo is a college student, more interested in picking up girls, drinking with his buddies and avoiding his nagging mother whenever possible. While riding the subway, a drunken girl then changes ...more -
![1% of Anything]()
Kim Jung Hwa is a young and sincere middle school teacher, who has little interest in money. She is also extremely warm-hearted and loves to help other people. When she helps carry ...more -
![Papa to Musume no Nanokakan]()
This home comedy tells the story of Kyoichiro and his teenage daughter Koume. One day, the two ride a train together after visiting Kyoichiro's mother-in-law. He sees it as a chance to ...more -
![Perfect World]()
Architect Ayukawa Itsuki is left paralyzed from the waist down by a sudden accident and is confined to using a wheelchair. Kawana Tsugumi works at an interior design company and one day ...more -
![Our Shining Days]()
The story of Chen Jing, a high school student who loves traditional folk music, her efforts to form a folk music band and spreads the love together with her friends, how they ...more -
![Fall in Love at First Kiss]()
Xiang Qin, an ordinary girl with a stubborn crush on the school genius, Jiang Zhi Shu, faces rejection after confessing her feelings. Just when she's ready to give up, circumstances lead her ...more -
![Hana Yori Dango]()
Makino Tsukushi is the only poor student at Eitoku Gakuen, a school for the ridiculously rich and privileged. Eitoku Gakuen is ruled by the Flower 4, otherwise known as the F4, a ...more -
![Love in the Big City]()
An audacious tale of two roommates, one a gay man and another a straight woman. Through the eyes of Mi Ae begins Ko Yeong’s clumsy love story. Stories of laughter, tears, and ...more -
![The Fallen Angel]()
A depressed artist makes his way to Tokyo where, struggling with addiction, his attempts to connect with people are frustrated by his own self-loathing. (Source: Netflix Japan) -
![Rahut Rissaya]()
After her parents’ deaths, Palai decided to find evidence that her parents’ deaths were not accidental, but actually murder. She not only lost her parents, but she lost her house, her company ...more -
![Tokyo Tower]()
Toru, a 20-year old man, falls in love with a woman who is not only married but also 20 years older than he. Complicating matters even further, she also happens to be ...more -
![The Prince of Tennis]()
Lu Xia is a tennis prodigy who lived overseas since he was a child with his parents. He has inherited his father's outstanding strength and tennis talent. However, trapped under the shadow ...more -
![The Silent Sea]()
Set in the future, when the planet suffers from a lack of water and food caused by desertification. Yoon Jae is a soldier for the space agency. He is selected for a ...more -
![Death Note]()
Light Yagami is an ordinary university student. One day, he receives a Death Note which changes his life. The Death Note awakens his warped sense of justice and genius. He becomes murderer ...more -
![Soul Mate]()
In the bustling life of 30-year-old Li An Sheng in Shanghai, tranquility is shattered when a novel, "Qi Yue and An Sheng," surfaces, recounting her past friendship with Qi Yue. Encountering Su ...more -
![Iljimae]()
The Korean version of Robin Hood, "Il-Ji-Mae" deals with a hero who helped the unprotected poor men by robbing the rich and the powerful ones. -
![Unrequited Love]()
A story revolving around two students, Huai Nan and Luo Zhi, who immediately hit it off when they meet in university, but a message from an ex complicates things. Furthermore, Huai Nan ...more -
![Feel 100%]()
Jerry, Cherrie, and Lok are a pop trio, and the boys have agreed not to court Cherrie for the good of the group. Jerry's a feckless playboy, but he falls hard for ...more -
![Painted Skin]()
During the Han Dynasty. Xiao Wei is a fox spirit who feasts on human hearts in order to maintain her lovely, youthful appearance. When General Wang Sheng rescues her from a band ...more -
![Cheese in the Trap]()
Having returned to college after a year long break due to her family's poor background, Hong Seol, a hardworking over-achiever, inadvertently gets on the wrong side of her senior, Yoo Jung, who's ...more -
![Phoenix]()
Love is timing. Love needs just the "right time". It's not because you loved him or her less that you parted. Heaven brings you your soul mate when the time is just ...more -
![Rak Prakasit]()
Nid is a working woman who asked for a job as a secretary at Puchit's farm, but instead was assigned to be a manager working in the farm. As a boss and ...more -
![Pee Mak]()
In the Rattanakosin Kingdom, Mak leaves his pregnant wife Nak to join the war and meets four soldiers who become his best friends. During this time, his wife Nak struggles to give ...more -
![Kleun Cheewit]()
Jeerawat ''Jee'' is a brilliant actress with a painful past. She grew up with her grandmother because her mother remarried. When her mother was away on business, her stepfather always found an ...more -
![Tokyo Tower]()
Kojima Toru is a medical school student, but he is bored with his life that always seems the same. One day, he meets an architect, Asano Shifumi, and he is invited to ...more -
![Hana Kimi Remake]()
Ashiya Mizuki has just come back to Japan from California where she was raised. She fell in love with Sano Izumi, a hopeful high jump hero, who has quit after an accident. ...more -
![Painted Skin: The Guo Jingming Edition]()
A different rendition to the original story with role-reverse and different story direction. Xiao Wei is a fox demon who feasts on human hearts in order to maintain his clean, youthful appearance. ...more -
![Wanida]()
Set in the 1940's, this lakorn revolves around two families, the old and proud, but money poor Mahasak family and the newly rich Wongwiboon family. Wanida is the daughter of Dao, a ...more -
![Behind the Revenge]()
Ponwalai, Yodthian's sister, is Prakob's mistress. He devoted his money and himself to her, but she already had another man. When Prakob finds out, he dies of a heart attack and leaves ...more -
![Nang Nak]()
Mak leaves for Bangkok and is seriously wounded in the Chiang Toong War. His wife Nak dies together along with her stillborn child. However, when Mak returns, they continue to live together, ...more -
![Late Autumn]()
Anna is on her way to Seattle to attend her mother’s funeral on a special weekend release from prison where she is serving time for manslaughter for killing her abusive husband. On ...more -
![Detective Chinatown]()
After being rejected from the police college, a mannerly man travels to Bangkok where he and an energetic distant relative must solve a murder case. -
![Painted Skin]()
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![Love in the Big City]()
Characterized by her sharp tongue and daring attitude, Jae Hee is always at the center of gossip and hateful rumors. Meanwhile, Heung Soo is set on keeping his gay identity a secret ...more -
![Mae Nak Phra Khanong]()
The story is about a beautiful young woman named Nak, who lived on the banks of the Phra Khanong Canal, and her undying love for her husband, Mak. With Nak was pregnant, ...more -
![Itazura na Kiss]()
Late for a meeting, Kotoko was running along the corridor in school and bumped into Naoki, their lips meeting. Naoki showed his disgust, but Kotoko started to idolise him, who was good ...more -
![Medical Examiner Dr. Qin]()
Qin Ming's assistant resigned because of his unbearable and quirky temper. Li Da Bao of the Department of Mark Inspection was ordered to join the working group. At the beginning, Qin doesn't ...more -
![Cry Me a Sad River]()
Yi Yao and Qi Ming are neighbors and friends who go to the same class. Transfer student Tang Xiao Mi takes a liking to Qi Ming and becomes jealous of Yi Yao's ...more -
![Nang Nak Saphai Phra Khanong]()
Based on a Thai legend, it tells the unearthly love story between Mak and his wife Nak who died in childbirth while her husband was at war and nevertheless remained around with ...more -
![River Flows to You]()
Qi Ming and Yi Yao are neighbors who live in the same alley. As an older brother, Qi Ming is always helping and protecting Yi Yao. Qi Ming plants a tree for ...more -
![Mischievous Kiss the Movie: High School]()
A love between high school students Naoki and Kotoko. Naoki is handsome, good at sports and smart. Even though Kotoko is not very smart, she has a bright personality and a strong ...more -
![It Started with a Kiss]()
After an earthquake destroys Xiang Qin's house, she and her father move in with the family of her father's college buddy. To her surprise, her new kind and amicable aunt and uncle ...more -
![The Journey of Flower]()
It tells the story of Hua Qian Gu. On the day of her birth, flowers wilted and the skies turned dark as her mother passed during child birth. Her father passed away ...more -
![Ooku]()
In an alternative feudal Japan, a strange disease that only affects males caused a massive population reduction, leaving females to fill the vacant jobs, therefore changing the social structure. Now, 80 years ...more -
![The Journey of Flower]()
Hua Qian Gu, determined to change her ominous fate, faces numerous trials to become Bai Zi Hua’s disciple. Saved by him, she secretly loves Bai Zi Hua, the leader of the Chang ...more -
![Miss in Kiss]()
A quirk of fate sends an ordinary, sweet-natured high school girl and her father into the home of the school genius, on whom she has a huge crush. (Source: IMDb) ~~ Adapted ...more -
![Bargain]()
A middle-aged man takes a high school girl to a motel room and bargains with her about the payment for sex. He argues for a discount on the grounds that she is ...more -
![Detective Chinatown]()
Strange crimes occur in Thailand as the ranking for the world's best detective sees a shift. New detectives come into the picture to tackle three difficult cases. Lin Mo is the student ...more -
![Chinese Paladin]()
The story takes place in a fantasy medieval China. Li Xiao Yao, a "Stinky Punk", journeys to Dream Island to find a cure for his sick aunt. There he meets and marries ...more -
![Ooku]()
In the year 1716, a mysterious epidemic strikes men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the ...more -
![Sword and Fairy 1]()
Li Xiao Yao, a young inn attendant who dreams of becoming a great hero, accidentally meets Zhao Ling Er, a descendant of the goddess Nuwa. Together, they embark on a quest to ...more -
![Oshin]()
The 31st NHK Asadora Drama is Oshin. Oshin tells the story of a girl born in a very poor rural family in Japan, who through hard work and perseverance eventually triumphs over ...more -
![Hanazakari no Kimitachi e]()
This hilarious comedy follows the chaos, troubles, and friendship at a boys' boarding school after a girl disguised as a boy joins. Ashiya Mizuki has just come back to Japan from California ...more -
![Oshin]()
A young girl named Oshin is sent to work for another family, because of her own family's financial condition. Nevertheless, the young girl lives strongly. (Source: AsianWiki)
