Underrated Gems That Deserve a Chance (Viewership)
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Tae Ho Dec 13, 2019
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![Watashi wo Hanasanaide]()
Hoshina Kyoko, Doi Tomohiko and Sakai Miwa have been leading ordinary lives working as adults. Raised at Yoko Gakuen which was isolated from the world and located on the mountain, the three ...more -
![The Princess's Man]()
Princess Se Ryung is the headstrong and forward-thinking daughter of Grand Prince Su Yang, who is determined to be King. She falls in love with the son of his mortal enemy, and ...more -
![Sketch]()
Nabi Project Team is a small-scale secret group secretly operated by the National Police Agency. The group is named after the Hebrew/Arabic word ‘Nabi,’ meaning ‘Prophet,’ because they attempt to solve cases ...more -
![Gonzo]()
Kuroki was once an ace detective, but after being traumatized from a case, he became unable to work and was transferred to another division, where he idles his time away. One day, ...more -
![Asa ga Kita]()
In the late Tokugawa Shogunate, Asa was born as the second daughter of a wealthy merchant in Kyoto, Japan. Later, in Osaka, Asa entered various business fields like coal mines, banks, life ...more -
![Secret Investigation Record]()
Secret Investigation Record is based on cases detailed in the Annals of Joseon History with a bizarre twist; these incidents incorporate mysterious, supernatural elements that cannot be explained through science. Kim Hyung ...more -
![Nice Witch]()
A housewife too nice for her own good is married to an unemployed husband. She switches places with her selfish, opinionated twin sister, who works as a flight attendant. Although they are ...more -
![The Third Charm]()
The Third Charm tells the 12-year love story of how two young people with completely different personalities manage to find each other again. From the tender age of 20 to 27 years ...more -
![The Crown Princess]()
The main heroine - a princess of a small country, comes into danger after her coronation. To protect her they send her to Thailand, where the main hero - a navy man- ...more -
![Beautiful World]()
This drama is about a boy on the edge of life and death, and his family's quest to find the truth. Amidst the lies and secrets, mistrust and pain, the family looks ...more -
![Fukuyado Honpo - Kyoto Love Story]()
Fukuyoshi Hina, Arare, and Hana are three sisters whose family run Fukuya, a 450-year-old traditional Japanese confectionery shop in Kyoto. This is the story of their individual romances, love of family and ...more -
![Life]()
This series examines the hospital as a breeding ground for misuse of power. It is a place of conflicting interests and clashing egos. The doctors have the power to save lives, but ...more -
![Fumo Chitai]()
Iki Tadashi is a military leader who was captured by the Soviets during World War II. Treated as a war criminal, he was sentenced to many years of labor in a harsh ...more -
![Kazoku no Uta]()
Hayakawa Seigi was once a popular member of the rock band "Out of Justice," but after the breakup of the band 13 years ago, Hayakawa Seigi's life has become a mess. He ...more -
![Cheongdamdong Alice]()
Han Se Kyung is a young woman with a very positive character. Her motto is "effort will take me as far as I want to go". She wins many designing contests and ...more -
![The Spirit of the Ruler]()
Captain Phurit, a skillful sniper with a firm heart, finds himself wavering for the first time after meeting Dr. Napaschon. Napaschon is working as a volunteer doctor in a village near the ...more -
![Dung Duang Haruetai]()
Three neighboring kingdoms share a common border where all three meet, called the Tripoint. Mountainous Kasik, in the north, is the wealthiest and most powerful but lacks a sea route, which is ...more -
![Iari: Mienai Kao]()
Several nights after the wife of university professor Hirokawa Seiji died of illness, an unknown woman visits their house and asks if his wife is at home. When he hurriedly opens the ...more -
![Kiken na Aneki]()
Hiroko is the number-one hostess club girl. Hailing from the Miyazaki countryside, she has been told since her youth that all she has is a beautiful face. Her brilliant younger brother, who ...more -
![Yoiko no Mikata]()
Ask any nursery-aged little girl what she wants to be when she grows up, and she's bound to say nurse, florist, or ballerina. Ask any nursery-aged little boy what he wants to ...more -
![High and Low]()
"High and Low" focuses on Gondo Kingo, a powerhouse executive in the Japanese shoe industry. In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a proposition that throws him in ...more -
![Radiant Office]()
After failing several job interviews, Ho Won coincidentally hears that she has six months to live. And when everything seems hopeless, she finally lands on a job. She decides to make the ...more -
![Camouflage]()
The series consists of four 3-episode chapters, each handled by a different director. The directors were given freedom in their stories, but they all share a common theme: lies. --Tokyograph All of ...more -
![Kurokouchi]()
Detective Keita Kurokouchi continues to extort money from politicians from whom Keita Kurokouchi has information. By using his information, he is able to crack unsolved cases. Rookie Detective Mayo Seike is excellent ...more -
![Big Issue]()
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 ...more -
![Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi]()
Forced out of his research group after conflicts with his colleagues, Ogawa Takanobu takes up an offer to teach at a girls' high school in Nara. When taking roll call on the ...more -
![Once Upon a Time... in My Heart]()
Fahsai is heartbroken after her ex-boyfriend cheated on her. Yet he still has the nerve to ask her to take him back so, to avoid him, Fahsai's friend took her on a ...more -
![Tokyo Tarareba Musume]()
30-year-old Kamata Rinko is single and a struggling scriptwriter. She has no boyfriend and keeps having night outs at drinking spots with her girlfriends Kaori and Koyuki. “If I become beautiful, a ...more -
![Love Story]()
Misaki is a 30-year old unlucky in love editor. She tends to fall in love hard and smothers her boyfriends to death. With no major accomplishments under her belt, she is told ...more -
![Sexy Voice and Robo]()
Hayashi Niko is a mature middle school student with heightened hearing and the ability to mimic the voice of anyone she encounters. Sudo Ichiro is an immature Otaku who is obsessed with ...more -
![Poisonous Passion]()
Parichat became pregnant before discovering that her partner, Trin, was already married. After forcibly having the child aborted, he abandons her. Parichat is left alone and suicidal until her sister and brother-in-law ...more -
![Oasis]()
Jong Du is autistic and ignores society's rules, unaware or unconcerned with the consequences of his actions. Unable to hold a job and always on the edge, he has been in jail ...more -
![The Great White Tower]()
A striking drama of the amazingly gifted surgeon Zaizen Goro, caught up by his desire for power and fame, and his contemporary physician Satomi Shuji, who selflessly continues a quest to save ...more -
![Oh! My Girl!!]()
Yamashita Kotaro was living a peaceful life as a publisher part-timer aspiring to be a mobile phone novelist until two females suddenly appeared in his life. One is his six-year-old celebrity niece ...more -
![Save Me Season 2]()
With their municipality scheduled to be flooded to make way for the construction of a new dam, the devout denizens of a rural village have placed their faith in Choi Gyung Seok, ...more -
![Evasive Inquiry Agency]()
Moo Yeol, a taekwondo instructor, falls for Eun Jae at first sight when she comes to his agency and asks for help finding gold treasures. Hee Kyung is a tarot card master, ...more -
![Fah Mee Tawan]()
The story follows a young businessman, Paul, who plans to get back Crown Diamond, the company once owned by his mother. He is determined to take revenge and retrieve everything from the ...more -
![Onibaba]()
Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. Forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, ...more -
![Soratobu Kouhoushitsu]()
Inaba Rika, whose childhood dream was to become a news reporter, is instead a director for an informative TV program. At one point, she was a reporter; however, her career was cut ...more -
![Slow Dance]()
A man who constantly applies the brake in his life, a woman who could do with a brake in her life. They have their careers, but they are both failures in love. ...more -
![Otoko Meshi]()
University student Wakamizu Ryota, who is the middle of job hunting, gets caught up in a sudden gang dispute. Ryota’s life is saved by Yanagiba Ryuichi, the boss of Yanagiba-gumi, and Ryota ...more -
![Nang Rai]()
The love story of a superstar nang rai (female antagonist) in the entertainment business, although she is a superstar, her real story is very different. Her love is separated by status as ...more -
![Tamiou]()
One day, the current prime minister of Japan, Muto Taizan, and his useless son, Sho, suddenly discover that they have switched bodies. With no known cause or solution at hand, Sho reluctantly ...more -
![Saigo Kara Nibanme no Koi]()
Koizumi’s last lead role in a drama series was in 2001 in TBS’s “Koi wo Nannen Yasundemasu ka.” This time, she will play a 45-year-old single woman who works as a TV ...more -
![Ruri no Shima]()
On Hatomi, a small island in Okinawa state part of Japan's southern sea frontier, the social environment is suffering. With the last student of the elementary school leaving the place, the closing ...more -
![Petero no Souretsu]()
Saburo Sugimura works for the PR department of a company which his father-in-law runs. His job is to edit the company newspaper. One day, on the bus, Saburo Sugimura faces a hijacking ...more -
![Tampopo]()
Tampopo is a celebration of the role of food in Japanese culture. Acclaimed director Juzo Itami's (The Funeral. A Taxing Woman) hit satire was dubbed the first "noodle western" for its delightful ...more -
![Ashi Girl]()
Hayakawa Yui is a 16-year-old girl whose only strong point is her ability to run fast. When her reclusive but genius younger brother invents a time machine, she accidentally gets sent to ...more -
![Suika]()
34-year-old Motoko, an employee at a credit union, is stunned when she learns her best friend and co-worker, Mariko, has embezzled 300 million yen and disappeared. Motoko, still un-married, lives at home ...more -
![Bangkok Breaking]()
The six-episode series is centered around the wild world of Bangkok's road rescue services and Wanchai who is newly arrived in Bangkok and must unravel a city-wide conspiracy alongside a young, upstart ...more -
![Smile, You]()
Seo Jung In is the second daughter of a chaebol family, whose family suddenly meets with financial ruin. She is dumped by her husband, Lee Han Se, after their wedding ceremony when ...more -
![Be Melodramatic]()
Im Jin Joo, Lee Eun Jung, and Hwang Han Joo are best friends who are 30-years-old. Hwang Han Joo is the head of a marketing team for a drama production company. She ...more -
![Tokyo Love Story]()
When Kanchi first came to Tokyo to work, he is full of uncertainties. He is 'lost' in his work and his love relationship is in a mess. During those times, Rika, his ...more -
![Nabi, My Stepdarling]()
Pichet is married to Waree and has a son, Kawin. Sirin manages Pichet's DUBAI CLUB. Pichet loves and trusts Sirin so much that Waree thinks she's Pichet's mistress. Waree’s sister, Weeranat, planted ...more -
![Infernal Affairs]()
Jiang Zi Dan, a Chinese police officer, is sent to Hong Kong to go undercover as a triad member. The same triad sends Wei Jun Xuan as an informant into the police ...more -
![Yutori Desu ga Nani ka SP]()
Story is set one year later after drama series “We're Millennials Got a Problem?” -
![Toho Nanahun]()
32-year-old Kurosaki Yoriko has no man, no friends and no job. She starts to live alone for the first time and comes in touch with a new world. This is the story ...more -
![Love Sick]()
Punn has a girlfriend, but his father wants him to date his friend's daughter. Punn's little sister, Pang, is obsessed with boys' love. Punn's father doesn't listen to Punn well but adores ...more -
![Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring]()
The film is divided into five segments (the five seasons of the title), each segment depicting a different stage in the life of a Buddhist monk (each segment is roughly ten to ...more -
![Go Ho's Starry Night]()
At twenty-nine-years-old, Go Ho faces the struggles of the modern-day woman, namely the struggles to succeed in work and romance in the 21st Century. An advertisement contractor who is unlucky in love, ...more -
![I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK]()
Yeong Goon works at manufacturing plant assembling radios. She also has a secret... Yeong Goon believes she is a cyborg. One day, while working at the factory, she decides to re-charge herself ...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 -
![The Chaser]()
Detective Baek Hong-Suk lost his 15-year-old daughter in a car accident and his wife died from shock shortly afterwards. Detective Baek Hong-Suk then searches for the truth related to his daughter's death ...more -
![Bow See Chompoo]()
Bow is a beautiful women who dates rich men. Unluckily she happens to be dating Det and Det's father at the same time. Worse yet, both Det and his father have close ...more -
![A Love]()
At the age of 17, In Ho had his future planned, he will work hard, go to university and make his poor mother proud. When he accidentally meets his childhood crush Mi ...more -
![Love of the Aegean Sea]()
Beautifully filmed at Aegean Sea with lovely music, this romantic drama series with an all star-cast from Taiwan and Korea is a must-watch. Guan Xiao Tong is a talented music student who ...more -
![My Heart Twinkle Twinkle]()
Soon Jin's father owns chicken restaurant Jinshim. She has two younger sisters: Soon Soo and Soon Jung. Since her mother died, Soon Jin has taken care of her father and her two ...more -
![Cheap Love]()
Cheap love is about Nanami, a teacher, and Junichi, who is a scout for nightclubs. Nanami lives a boring life preparing to get married to a boring man. When she meets Junichi, ...more -
![Roy Ruk Raeng Kaen]()
Kimhan and Mookarin were engaged to be married but a tragedy destroyed their happiness. Mon, Kimhan's sister, was found dead and her husband Tada, Mook's brother, was accused of killing her. The ...more -
![Going by the Book]()
A string of bank robberies puts the public in a panic and they demand action from the newly appointed police chief to crack down on the perpetrators. In order to appease the ...more -
![Punch]()
Wan Deuk is a high school boy who lives with his hunchback father and has the unfortunate luck of having his high school homeroom teacher as his neighbor. Despite his dad’s diminutive ...more -
![Family's Honor]()
Ha Dan Ah is very dignified and beautiful yet she also had a sad life. Dan Ah was married in her 20's, but her husband died in a car accident during their ...more -
![Bad Guy]()
When a local pimp is publicly humiliated by a snobbish college girl, he manipulates her into a life of sexual slavery at his brothel. As he watches her nightly humiliation from behind ...more -
![Tree of Heaven]()
Hana is a bright young girl who lost her father at a young age. When her mother returns to Japan, she comes with her new Korean husband and his son Yunsuh. Yunsuh's ...more -
![Friend, Our Legend]()
Friend, Our Legend is a drama adaptation of the 2001 gangster classic film "Friend" both by the same director, Kwak Kyung Taek. This drama is a gritty, brilliant, star-studded tale of four ...more -
![Wild Romance]()
Everything starts on the birthday of Eun Jae's dad. When she was drunk, Eun Jae ran into Park Moo Yul, who is the 2nd baseman of the "Red Dreamers". Eun Jae, who ...more -
![The Perfect Couple]()
Romance can bloom out of the strangest events. Sometimes even very embarrassing ones. Running after a pickpocket, Detective Kang Jae Hyuk finds out how problematic journalist Choi Soo Jin can be when ...more -
![Happy Together]()
The love, conflicts, and reunions of 5 siblings. A drama about 5 children who were separated at the death of their parents. They meet again as adults and have all gone their ...more -
![Robber]()
Kwon Oh Joon is a swindler who falls for a widow with a 5 year old daughter, Jin Dal Rae. Dal Rae lives with her daughter and mother in law after her ...more -
![The Slave Hunters]()
Chuno follows the story of Lee Dae Gil, a man of high birth, whose family was ruined when Won Ki Yoon, a slave, burnt down his house and escaped with his sister, ...more -
![Friend]()
At a time when students had to fasten their collars and crease their slacks till they're razor-sharp, these four friends strutted around in their own custom-fashioned uniforms. They walked the streets with ...more -
![The Seaside Motel]()
Based on Yukio Okada's manga "Motel". "Seaside Motel" is a romantic-comedy that takes place over the course of one evening at the oddly named Seaside Motel. The motel is in fact surrounded ...more -
![The King and the Clown]()
At the height of the 16th-century Joseon Dynasty, a pair of rural male actors - boisterous, macho Jang Seng and quiet, feminine Gong Gil - travels to Seoul and team up with ...more -
![Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress]()
The story revolves around two young Chinese boys of bourgeois background who were sent to a remote village in Sichuan province for three years of re-education during the Cultural Revolution. They both ...more -
![Ikiru]()
Watanabe Kanji is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for thirty years. His wife is dead and his son and daughter-in-law, who live with him, seem ...more -
![Love Me Not]()
Julian has lived off with the money he lures from his rich female customers. But now he faces usurious debts from a hasty expansion of his business, and he will be killed ...more -
![Buang Ruk Gamathep]()
Phubodee is summoned back to Thailand from America by his very concerned mother. They have a family crisis because his younger brother, Prawat, has fallen in love with a woman from the ...more -
![Shut Up: Flower Boy Band]()
Byung Hee is the crazy, free-spirited leader and vocalist of the popular underground rock group, Eye Candy. Joining him is mood-maker Ji Hyuk, chic Hyun Soo, playboy Ha Jin, silent Do Il ...more -
![9 End 2 Outs]()
Hong Nan Hee is an ordinary worker at a publishing firm. She's a girl who always falls in and out of love ever since she was young. Nan Hee has a best ...more -
![A Man's Story]()
In the blink of an eye, Kim Shin loses everything dear to him. His father's company goes bankrupt, his brother commits suicide, his girlfriend leaves him, and he himself ends up in ...more -
![Cruel Love]()
Na In Jung was a successful orchestra cellist in her 20s, a nice, kind girl lacking nothing. She met a handsome stranger, a successful businessman, Lee Soo Hwan and fell in love ...more -
![Sawan Biang]()
Kawee Worawath is a rich, temperamental and arrogant spoilt brat. His father, Kid Worawath, had been recycling wives ever since Kawee's mother died and Kawee had grown up despising women for their ...more -
![You Are the Apple of My Eye]()
Changhua, west coast of Taiwan, 1994. Sixteen-year-old Ko Ching Teng is a pupil at Chingchang High School, along with his pals “Boner”, the serious “Fattie” A Ho, the bragging “Cock Tsao” and ...more -
![Bang Rajan]()
In the midst of war, four young men fall in love. In 1765, as the invading Angwa (Burmese) army marched towards the capitol of Ayutthaya Kingdom (Siam), they encountered little resistance from ...more -
![The Bride With White Hair]()
Zhuo Yi Hang is raised by his master, Tzu Yang, to be his successor in the leadership of their clan. Yi Hang meets Lian Ni Shang, a warrior adopted by wolves and ...more -
![Departures]()
Kobayashi Daigo is a cellist, but when his orchestra is dissolved he returns to his hometown in Yamagata prefecture with Mika, his web designer wife. He finds a classified ad for a ...more -
![Ashes of Time Redux]()
A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings. In 2008, Wong Kar Wai re-edited and re-released the film under the title ...more -
![Painted Skin: The Resurrection]()
According to demon lore, it takes hundreds of years to attain human form. Even then, lacking a human heart, a demon cannot experience the true pains and passions of existence. However, there ...more -
![White Night]()
A pawnbroker is found murdered in a remote town. Police suspect that he was murdered by an acquaintance, as even the most experienced investigator on the case could identify no signs of ...more -
![Neung Nai Suang]()
Poom and Neung were childhood enemies. Neung made fun of Poom because she was chubby, and Poom hated Neung because he always had to have his way. Years later, Poom finishes her ...more
