The Official Asian Drama Thread

Good idea for a thread!

Right now I'm watching Iljimae, which started off a bit slow but seems to be getting more and more entertaining with each passing episode.

Asian Film List
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I haven't seen any of the historical ones yet. Most of them seem to be very long though.

Where's my elephant?

I've seen Boys before flowers and Cofee Prince, but I almost only watch historical Korean dramas. The negative thing about them is that they tend to drag on too long and they all have similar endings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAgcz1iPpOI

Yeah most of them seem to be incredibly long.

And speaking of that, I thought that even Boys Before Flowers dragged on too much.

Where's my elephant?

The longest drama I've seen is Three Kingdoms, it has 95 episodes! I only finished it to improve my Chinese. Have you seen any Chinese/Taiwanese dramas? I did a list of Mainland Chinese/Taiwanese dramas I've seen so far:

Heavenly sword and dragon sabre
Butterfly lovers
Three kingdoms
Young warriors of the yang clan
Tearful sword
the great revival
Return of the condor hereos
The condor heroes
Genius physiscian
Great tales of Liao Zhai
Mischievous princess
Demon gods, semi devils
The four
Twin of brother
Chinese Paladin
Sword stained with royal blood
State of divinity
Princess returnig pearl
Lotus lantern
Momo love
Devil beside you
Meteor shower
My secret garden
Love corner
Romantic princess
Summer's desire
Corner with love
Meteor garden
Mars
Hi my sweetheart
Love contract
Why why love
Bull fighting
To get her
Autum concerto
It started with a kiss
Tokyo Juliet
At dolphin bay
Love buffet


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAgcz1iPpOI

Wow - thanks for that list! Which are your favorites?

I used to watch Taiwanese dramas years ago when they were broadcast on a local Chinese-language TV channel and I'm interested in seeing more now that they're easily available on DVD.

There was one that I saw from the late 1980's/early 1990's - a historical drama (late Qing?) about 3 brothers from a wealthy clan who fell in love with the same girl (I think she was a maid or servant). I can't recall the name of the series. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

I haven't seen the drama you're talking about, but this sounds like it could be the one, except that they're cousins instead of brothershttp://wiki.d-addicts.com/Hong_Lou_Meng_(1987)

The more romantic teen dramas that I loved was Mars, The devil beside you, Meteor garden(the original Boys before flowers)Autumn's concerto and The outsiders.

Butterfly lovers is an old and very beautiful Chinese legend, similar to Romeo and Juliet. Princess returning pearl, Mischievous princess and Young warriors of the Yang clan are also good. They all have an historical setting.

If your're interested in Wuxia (not everyone is) I can recommend the Tearful sword, State of divinity, the four detectives and Heavenly sword and dragon sabre. The quality and special effects are not the best though.

http://wiki.d-addicts.com/ is a very good site to find dramas if you're interested

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAgcz1iPpOI

"Hong Lou Meng" isn't the one I saw but it looks interesting. Thanks for checking it.

And thanks so much for all the other recommendations!