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Set in the Ming Dynasty under the rule of Emperor Zhu Qi Zhen when women doctors were not in practice, Hang Yun Xian comes from a long line of medical practitioners, her family having served as court physicians for several generations. However, ever since her grandfather was falsely accused of medical malpractice, the family stopped practicing medicine and changed their name from Tan to Hang. Yet, Yun Xian is determined to learn medicine and so she does it in secret, except things become difficult when she crosses paths with the Emperor Qi Zhen and his brother Qi Zhu capturing the hearts of both men, thus starting a love story spanning several decades. Edit Translation

  • English
  • 中文(简体)
  • Русский
  • Español
  • Country: China
  • Type: Drama
  • Episodes: 50
  • Aired: Feb 13, 2016 - Mar 9, 2016
  • Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
  • Original Network: JSTV
  • Duration: 45 min.
  • Score: 7.8 (scored by 1,646 users)
  • Ranked: #3399
  • Popularity: #2593
  • Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

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blackstar_aria
16 people found this review helpful
Apr 18, 2016
50 of 50 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 7.0
Imperial Doctress was a great drama that showed you the hard life a woman had defying the odds in Imperial China. This drama covers nearly 22+ years of happenings in 50 episodes but each episode is totally enjoyable and keeps the watcher engaged and on baited breath. I do not normally watch dramas with more than 50 eps because I get bored easily but this one was perfect. I even had to Wikipedia the historical facts so I could find out how the story turned out!

The Good:
1. The main actors are tremendous! I started watching because I liked Wallace, but in the end I fell in love with Cecilia. They played the main characters perfectly portraying the chemistry and forbidden romantic tension between the emperor and the doctress. Although these actors were awesome, just like in any other drama some of the supporting cast got the side-eye.
2. In a long drama like this it is difficult to tell if days, months or years are passing, I liked that the drama gave hints to the timeline of how much time had passed so we wouldn’t be confused.
3. Overall, the story line was particularly thoughtfully written and didn’t stray too much from the main story of the happenings around the doctress. At every turn she was learning something new, meeting new people and being a total bad a@#.
4. I love a strong female lead character. This drama had one of the strongest female characters I have seen in a long time. Once she learned how to bat an eyelash and flirt a little she was unstoppable!
5. The character development was remarkable and well planned. I was so happy to see so many characters developing and having “life”
The Bad: Well… There isn’t much bad to the drama but in 50 episodes you find stuff wrong.
1. I HATED their lace front wigs, they didn’t match the hair colors for women and above all I saw clothes tags. smh. I couldn’t focus on what some of the characters were saying because of bad lace-mustaches… and don’t get me started on Essen’s drawn on eyebrows!! Hair and makeup should be ashamed, but the costumer was extraordinary.
2. Plot dragging- While the story line was good; there were some plot drags after ep 25 or so. The emperors temper tantrum would last way too long, or the empress’ despicable plotting would go on for way to long and I would be forced to jump ahead.
3. The evil stepmother. There were so many evil stepmother/evil women in this story I was sick of them. These women were overly evil, cunning and had poor excuses. I understand that this is historical based but the evil women in this were almost overwhelming.
Overall- this is worth the time! This has a unique somewhat happy ending but don't get your hopes high. If you like historical dramas with strong female characters, or if you just like strong female leads this one is for you!

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Completed
ItsMeDramaQueen
29 people found this review helpful
Mar 31, 2016
50 of 50 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 6.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 7.0
Story
- For the first half of the drama, the balance between romance and medical was really good. However towards the end, the romance got really complicated (rather than love triangle.. it became a square?) and confusing. The medical part of it pretty much got lost after episode 30.
- I enjoyed the medical parts of the drama more since the context of the drama was about how Yu Xian was the first imperial doctress and attempt to rid of the negative connotations for female doctors.
- It felt like the drama lost its point and was trying hard to push the romance.
- The ending happened very quickly and weirdly...

Characters/Actors:
- I felt the actors was well chosen
- There was chemistry between all 3 main characters but Yu Xian's personality was predictable - like the typical 'innocent and pure' character.

Music:
- i didnt pay much attention towards the music of the drama, but the song that was used during the romantic scenes was really nice

Overall:
- Overall its a nice drama to watch, at least first half. Its pretty long - 50 episodes, I recommend watching it when you have loads of free time. Since first half the drama got me waiting for the next since I was following it as it aired (2 episodes everyday), so you might get hooked initially. But around episode 30 - you probably will slow down.
- Its a Chinese soap opera - so if chinese isn't you first language you won't be able to enjoy what they say as much since they speak in the 'ancient' way. Even as a chinese speaker, some parts are hard to understand.

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  • Drama: The Imperial Doctress
  • Country: China
  • Episodes: 50
  • Aired: Feb 13, 2016 - Mar 9, 2016
  • Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
  • Original Network: JSTV
  • Duration: 45 min.
  • Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

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  • Score: 7.8 (scored by 1,646 users)
  • Ranked: #3399
  • Popularity: #2593
  • Watchers: 5,423

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