Favorite Dramas
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1. Signal
Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes
Summary:
Fifteen years ago, a young girl was kidnapped on the way from school, and Park Hae Yeong, who was an elementary school student at that time, witnessed the crime. A few days later, the girl was found dead, and the police were not able to find the culprit.
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.
Comment: One awesome awesome awesome series! I was hooked from the first episode on, not even sleep or hunger could win against Signal. -
2. Watcher
Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes
Summary:
After a dramatic incident 15 years ago, a senior detective, Do Chi Kwang, a former prosecutor Han Tae Joo and a young policeman, Kim Young Koon, become members of an internal affairs investigation team to uncover the truth and root out corruption and injustice from within the ranks of the police.
Comment: This is out of the norm amazing. Absolute masterpiece of a thriller drama! I was watching it weekly and after each episode it kept me holding my breath and guessing. I have never experienced anything like this. An absolute masterpiece of masterpieces. -
3. Burning Ice
Chinese Drama - 2017, 12 episodes
Summary:
To protect the woman he loves, a white-collar worker unintentionally becomes involved in a murder case and is from then on a suspect. In the blink of an eye, his quiet and boring life gets completely shaken up as he suddenly is both being chased by the police as well as gangsters. -
4. Trinity of Shadows
Taiwanese Drama - 2021, 15 episodes
Summary:
After the discovery of a murder that has similarities to a cold case from three years ago, the lead detective, an up-and-coming public official, and a rookie policeman are drawn together into a dark labyrinth of power play. -
5. Move to Heaven
Korean Drama - 2021, 10 episodes
Summary:
Geu Roo is a young autistic man. He works for his father’s business “Move To Heaven.” Their job is to arrange items left by deceased people. One day, Geu Roo's own father dies. Geu Roo is left alone, but his uncle Sang Koo suddenly appears in front of him. Sang Koo is a cold man. He was a martial artist who fought in underground matches. He went to prison because of what happened at his fight. Sang Koo now becomes Geu Roo’s guardian. They run “Move To Heaven” together.Comment:This is so golden, more than a masterpiece. I cannot find the right words to describe it. Everything was perfect, the music, the production, the cinematography, the acting, the characters, the story.....everything was absolutely amazing!
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6. Big Issue
Korean Drama - 2019, 32 episodes
Summary:
Set within the frenzy world of the paparazzi media. Due to a photograph, Han Seok Joo loses everything, including his job as a photographer for a top newspaper and his family. Ji Soo Hyun is the notorious chief editor of a paparazzi group. She hires the man to become a paparazzi photographer. -
7. Tientsin Mystic
Chinese Drama - 2017, 24 episodes
Summary:
During the Republican era, a river is haunted by inexplicable occurrences. Guo De You is a policeman who succeeds in his master 'Old River God' and has inherited his ability to weed out the guilty whenever he lights the pipe. He ends up being suspected of the murder of a distinguished chairman whose son Ding Mao joins hands with him to uncover the truth. Together with some unlikely partners, they begin an investigation that leads them to an incident that happened twenty years ago. -
8. Money Flower
Korean Drama - 2017, 24 episodes
Summary:
“Money Flower” portrays a story of interlinked relationships between Pil Joo who is capable of bringing down Chungah, Mo Hyun who seeks love and a young Chungah Group scion named Bu Cheon. And these characters all come to the fore as money dictates their lives in a web of desire, greed, and love. -
9. The World of the Married
Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes
Summary:
Everything seems perfect in the life of the successful family doctor and associate director, Ji Sun Woo. She lives happily in Gosan with her handsome husband Lee Tae Oh, whom she financially helped establish an entertainment company, and their teenage son, Joon Young. However, the perfect image of a happy, loving family life shatters when she discovers that her husband is having an affair, and even their mutual friends are helping him conceal it. Devastated by the betrayal, she sets on a path of seeking revenge and recollecting her broken self. -
10. My Mister
Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
Summary:
Park Dong Hoon is a middle-aged engineer who is married to attorney Kang Yoon Hee. However, his life is not that happy as he has two unemployed brothers, Sang Hoon and Gi Hoon, who rely on him. Moreover, his wife is secretly having an affair with CEO Do Joon Yeong, his current boss and college junior.
Receiving an unexpected bribe one day, Dong Hoon notices that his co-worker Lee Ji An witnessed the incident. Ji An is a young part-time worker at Dong Hoon's company who is drowning in debt and left alone to take care of her ill grandmother. Dong Hoon then gets entangled in his brothers' struggle to get back on their feet and the company's internal rivalry between the company's CEO and the people opposing him. All the while, unaware that CEO Joon Yeong wants to get rid of him and that Ji An is working for him. -
11. Inspector Koo
Korean Drama - 2021, 12 episodes
Summary:
A hard-boiled investigative comedy drama that centers around the insurance investigator Koo Kyung Yi who investigates a murder case. Koo Kyung Yi, an intelligent woman who solves cold cases for the thrill of cracking the case rather than bringing justice to the world. By hook or by crook, she ferociously chases the truth behind every case. A college student who is a serial killer plots an accidental murder case to defraud her insurance money. -
12. Stranger
Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
Summary:
Hwang Shi Mok underwent brain surgery as a child to curb his violent temper, which left him devoid of emotions. Hwang becomes a prosecutor known for his piercing intelligence and logic, but he is ostracized because he lacks empathy and social skills. He is also one of only a handful of upright prosecutors who have refused to take bribes. One day, he encounters a stabbing victim while investigating corruption. He meets Lieutenant Han Yeo Jin at the crime scene. They join forces to root out corruption at the prosecutors’ office and solve a serial murder case. -
13. Pinocchio
Korean Drama - 2014, 20 episodes
Summary:
The idealistic Choi In Ha has her work cut out for her when she becomes a broadcast journalist, especially when she suffers from a condition known as “Pinocchio syndrome,” which makes her break out into hiccups whenever she tells a lie. Her rookie colleagues include Choi Dal Po, whose shabby appearance masks his true eloquence and sharp memory; Seo Bum Jo, a wealthy heir who has had everything handed to him in life; and Yoon Yoo Rae, whose fangirl knowledge comes in handy in covering the news. The 20-something newbie reporters pursue justice as they try to discover themselves in the process. -
14. One Spring Night
Korean Drama - 2019, 32 episodes
Summary:
Feeling trapped in a stale four-year relationship and reluctant to take the next step into marriage, Lee Jung In stumbles into Yu Ji Ho's pharmacy one morning, nursing a hangover after a night of drinking with her friend. As she tries to reassemble herself before going to work, Jung In discovers that she has forgotten her wallet and cannot pay. Ji Ho kindly helps Jung In, despite her prickly personality. What begins as an innocent daily interaction, develops into a deeper attachment as the two find themselves drawn to one another. They embark on a secret friendship while navigating the minefield of familial and societal expectations. -
15. Subete ga F ni Naru
Japanese Drama - 2014, 10 episodes
Summary:
Due to Professor Kita’s suggestion, student Nishinosono Moe and Associate Professor Saikawa Sohei head to Professor Kita’s research institute. There, various experiments have been conducted in a low temperature research room. During the night a murder takes place. Two graduate students are found dead in the low temperature research room. -
16. Gold Panning
Chinese Drama - 2022, 12 episodes
Summary:
In 1986, 20-year-old Chen Bao Jin came to the Altai region to find his brother who was missing in the gold rush. He was tangled between life and death in the complicated environment and was also trapped between many forces. At the same time, strange things happened one after another. After layers of uncovering, the clues all point to the mysterious place with huge treasures and no survivors—Sister Sea. -
17. Nobody Knows
Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes
Summary:
Detective Young Jin, from the regional investigation unit, has only one thing on her mind: to catch the 'Stigmata' serial killer that murdered her friend 19 years ago. She carries guilt and trauma over the event. Her downstairs neighbor’s son, Eun Ho, has built a friendship with her ever since she moved above their apartment. One day Eun Ho, seems to have fallen off the roof of their apartment building and left in a coma. Young Jin senses foul play and decides to take it upon herself to get to the bottom of it. -
18. Siren
Japanese Drama - 2015, 9 episodes
Summary:
Satomi Shinobu works in the Mobile Investigation Unit of The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The Mobile Investigation Unit conducts the initial investigation at all crime scenes. He works with Inokuma Yuki. They are a couple, but they keep their relationship a secret at work. They both hope to work at the #1 Investigation Station. One day, they meet beautiful Tachibana Kara at the site where a dead body was found. Kara appears at the other crime scenes involving grotesque murders. She shows an interest in Yuki. Satomi Shinobu thinks it's a bad sign for Yuki. To protect his girlfriend from danger, he struggles to find uncover the truth behind the serial murder cases and Kara’s identity. -
19. Touch
Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes
Summary:
A popular make-up artist, known for his never-ending quest for perfection, Cha Jung Hyeok was at the top of his game. But destiny, it seemed, wouldn’t let him stay there for long. Now unemployed and drowning in debt, Jung Hyeok is desperate to find a way out of this most miserable of slumps; but he’s not the only one.
An idol trainee for the past ten years, Han Soo Yeon is desperate to finally get her big break. Deciding it’s now or never, she agrees to participate in an idol audition program, but fails to make the cut. Booted from the program, Soo Yeon finds herself wondering if this is really the path she’s meant to take in life.
Desperation and destiny come together in unexpected ways when Jung Hyeok and Soo Yeon cross paths. -
20. Ishi no Mayu
Japanese Drama - 2015, 5 episodes
Summary:
Toko Kisaragi is a new female detective who was transferred to 11 Section of the 1st Investigation Division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department as she wishes. Her father was a former detective of the same police department.
On March 9, a murder case was reported and the victim's body was found cemented. The next morning, the killer brazenly calls the police department and he identifies himself as Toremi. Toko Kisaragi becomes Toremi's negotiator. The murderer continues to shake the investigation headquarters, calling the investigation headquarters frequently and presenting information about his murder. Toremi leads the police to the second victim. There, the police discovered the victim's body cemented. -
21. The K2
Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes
Summary:
Kim Je Ha is a former mercenary soldier known as “K2” who suddenly turns into a fugitive when he is wrongfully accused of killing his girlfriend while he is serving in Iraq. He finds his way back to Korea and gets a job as a bodyguard for Choi Yoo Jin, the owner of JSS Security and the wife of Jang Se Joon, who is running for president.
Je Ha uses his new job to plan his revenge on Park Kwan Soo, the leader of the current ruling party and Se Joon’s rival, whom Je Ha believes ordered the murder of his girlfriend.
When Je Ha is assigned to guard Go An Na, the reclusive illegitimate daughter of Se Joon, they begin to develop feelings for each other. But what happens when the person who wants to harm An Na the most is Yoo Jin, Je Ha’s boss, and revenge ally? Where will Je Ha’s loyalty lay? -
22. Avengers Social Club
Korean Drama - 2017, 12 episodes
Summary:
Features three women from different walks of life coming together for revenge: a middle-aged fish store owner who envisioned a better life for herself, a housewife, and an heiress who was raised like a delicate greenhouse flower. They’re an unlikely trio who would never otherwise meet, but they join forces to carry out their individual revenge. Although they start out as co-conspirators, along the way they’ll build a strong friendship. -
23. Vacation of Love
Chinese Drama - 2021, 35 episodes
Summary:
Omnibus-style drama about a family and their romance stories during the chinese new year holidays 2021 -
24. The Burning River
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
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25. Galileo
Japanese Drama - 2007, 10 episodes