Happy 2020!
Here we are again ready to start the new decade with new drama and film reviews.
Hope 2020 will bring us choice dramas from South Korea, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and other Southeast Asian nations. Let’s go ASEAN.
- Cdrama – Chinese Drama
- Dorama – Japanese Drama
- Kdrama – South Korean Drama
- Lakorn – Thai Drama
- Sinetron – Indonesian Drama
- Teleserye – Filipino Drama
- TwDrama – Taiwanese Drama
A
- A Love So Beautiful is a Kdrama remake of the original Chinese version.
- Alice (Kdrama 2020)
- Angel Beside Me is a Thai lakorn about an Angel who mysteriously fell on earth to help a suicidal girl.
- As Long As You Love Me is a cdrama starring Dylan Xiong and Lai Yu Meng, it is a comeback drama of them together after Petty Man 2
- Awake (Kdrama 2020)
B
- Backstreet Rookie is a Kdrama starring the impossibly gorgeous tandem of Ji Chang Wook and Kim Yoo Jung. It is about a part-timer in a convenience store.
- Black Lighthouse is a Chinese courthouse drama starring Janice Wu and Eric Yang.
- Begin Again is a Chinese drama starring Zhou Yutong and Simon Gong.
- Boku Dake Ga 17 – Sai No Sekai De (2020) is a Japanese drama about a high school sweetheart who met again under the mysterious cherry tree despite one of the lovers was already dead.
C
- Chef Hua (2020), a Chinese drama about a chef and a bodyguard
- Chinese Bestiary/Guardian of the Ancient Oath (2020) is a Chinese historical costume drama fantasy about a nine-headed monster. The drama stars Leo Wu and Song Zu’er.
- Closer to You (2020) a Chinese drama about a boy who went back in time to save his goddess.
- Consummation is a Chinese drama about personal healing through a virtual reality game..
- Count Your Lucky Stars is a Chinese drama starring Jerry Yan and Shen Yue.
- CrossFire is a Chinese e-sport drama starring Lu Han and Leo Wu.
D
- Dance of the Sky Empire is a Chinese drama starring XuKai and Wu JIa YI.
- Dear Herbal Lord is a Chinese historical costume drama about an herb and the herb doctor. LOL
- Dear Mayang Street is a Chinese drama starring Seven Tan and Timmy Xu
- Delayed Justice is a Kdrama about getting justice for those wrongfully imprisoned.
- Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol is a Kdrama/Netflix Original starring Go Ara
- Don’t Think Twice, Love Is All Right is a Chinese drama about a romance by a billionaire who is much older that the girl.
- Dr Cutie is a Chinese drama about a cross-dressing girl who pretended she was a eunuch doctor to get close to the General’s mansion so she can find out who massacred her entire family.
- Dr Romantic 2 (Kdrama 2020)
E
- Eccentric! Chef Moon is a Kdrama about a lonely chef meeting an amnesiac woman and a little girl, who said she was his daughter.
- Ever Night Season 2 is a Chinese drama which is a continuation of the excellent 2018 one starring Chen Feiyu as Ning Que. Season 2 had a change of Ning Que in Dylan Wang. After watching 6 episodes, with and without subtitles, I feel that Season 1 is far superior in every aspect, it is an epic saga while season 2 has the feel of being lighter and had turned into a more idol drama, but that doesn’t mean to say that it is not as addictive.
F
- Fake Princess is a Chinese historical costume drama fiction about a bandit girl who had to pretend to be princes to marry the Crown Prince of Knight Kingdom.
- Fairyland Lovers is a Chinese drama about men from planet Penglai who crashed their spaceship into Earth. It is a fantasy romance.
- Fate is a Chinese drama starring Lu Yi and Li Yi Tong.
- Find Me In Your Memory (Kdrama 2020)
- First Romance is a Cdrama starring Wan Peng and Riley Wang
- Forever Love is a cdrama starring Wang An Yu.
- Forest is a kdrama which is both ecological and psychological. It stars Park Hae Jin and Jo Bo Ah,.
- Forget You, Remember Love (2020) is a Chinese Drama remake of a Taiwanese drama Frog Prince
G
- General’s Lady is a Cdrama starring Caesar Wu and Tang Min.
- Girlfriend 2020 is a Cdrama about a Producer/CEO and a new impoverished actress.
- Go Ahead is a Chinese drama about adopted family and Bio-family.
- God of Lost Fantasy is a Chinese historical costume drama starring Peter Sheng and Olivia Wang
H
- Handsome Siblings 2020 Cdrama 2020
- Honey, Don’t Run Away (Cdrama 2020)
- Hotel Trainees Cdrama 2020
I
- I Fell In Love By Accident is a Chinese modern romance starring Xu Le Wei.
- In-House Marriage Honey is a Japanese manga live-action drama starring Itagaki Mizuki and Airi
- Invisible Life is a Chinese drama about secret office romance starring Hawick Lau and Chen Duling.
- I’ve Fallen For You is a Chinese historical costume drama starring Esther Yu. It is a young forensic girl who solve mystery from a long agol
- I Will Find You A Better Home (Cdrama 2020)
J
K
- Kingdom season 2 is a follow up to a zombie fest Netflix Original Kdrama. It is so good fast-paced and well scripted. May edge-of-seat moments. Highly recommend it.
- Kkondae Intern is a Kdrama about a reversal of roles between a bully and the bullied.
- Kono Otoko wa Jinsei Saidai no Ayamachidesu (This Guy is the Biggest Mistake in My Love) is a Japanese Live Action Manga starring Hayami Mokomichi who was a CEO in a Pharmaceutical Company with a weird love slave taste.
- Kono Koi Atatamemasuka (A Warm Up Love) 2020
L
- Lost Romance (TwDrama 2020)
- Love & The Emperor is a Chinese drama about a plain girl chased by a handsome Emperor in a VR game.
- Love Designer (Cdrama 2020)
- Love in Time is a Chinese drama about contract marriage between a CEO and a novelist.
- Love is Sweet is a Chinese drama about a childhood sweetheart who met again in the workplace.
- Love Lasts Forever (Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo) is a Japanese live-action manga starring Takeru Satoh and K Mone. It is a doctor & nurse cute romance.
- Love of Summer Night is a Chinese drama about basketball.
- Love Story of Court Enemies is a Chinese drama about a girl who entered a palace as an intern doctor so she could revenge the massacre of her clan including her parents.
- Love Yourself is a female-centric Chinese drama headed by Victoria Song.
M
- Marry Me (Cdrama 2020)
- Meeting You (cdrama 2020)
- Midnight Runner is a Japanese drama Remake of a South Korean film.
- Midsummer is Full of Love is a Chinese version of the Kdrama starring Song Hye Kho and Rain.
- Mr Queen is a kdrama based on Chinese’ Go Princess Go.
- My Best Friend’s Story is a Chinese drama starring Ni Ni and Cecilia Liu.
- My Dangerous Wife is a Kdrama adapted from a Japanese 2016 Dorama.
- My Dear Destiny (Cdrama 2020)
- My Forever Sunshine is a Thai lakorn starring Mark Prin.
- My Girl (99 Points Girlfriend) 2020 is a Chinese drama starring Li Jiaqi and Zhao Yi Xin.
- My Fantastic Mrs Right is a Chinese Drama starring Zhang Jiongmin and Yuan Yuxuan
- My Housekeeper Mr Nagisa is a Japanese drama about a male housekeeper who wanted to be a mother and a workaholic girl who wanted mothering.
- My Lecturer My Husband (Sinetron 2020)
- My Roommate is a Detective is a Chinese drama starring Hu Yi Tian and Zhang Yunlong
- My Unicorn Girl (2020)
- My Wonderful Life is a Kdrama weekday serial about becoming a chaebol from a lowly beginning, starring Shim Yi Young.
- Mystic Pop-Up Bar is a Kdrana about a bar manned by a woman who can solve grudges of those living and those in the afterlife.
N
- No Need To Know (Shiranakute Ii Koto) (2020) is a Japanese drama about a young woman being told that her father was none other than Keanu Reeves.
- Nothing But Thirty is a Chinese drama that tackles the lives of three women who were about to turn thirty.
- Novoland: The Castle In The Sky 2 is a Chinese drama. The story continues with the daughter of the lead characters in the first series.
O
- Oh My Baby is a Kdrama about a woman whose biological clocking is ticking so fast she needed to attend to it pronto. It is a Jang Na Ra starer.
- Oh! My Sweet Liar is a Cdrama starring Xing Zhaolin.
- Once Again is a Kdrama about modern family starring Lee Min Jung and Lee Sang Yeob. Four children in a family all ended up divorced.
P
- Peanut Butter Sandwich is a Dorama about a Government Agency which help women in their pursuit of marriage.
- Poisoned Love is a Chinese drama about a girl who goes catatonic when put under extreme shock and panic.
- Professional Single is a Chinese drama starring Song Yiren and Aaron Deng.
Q
- Qing Qing Zi Jin is a Chinese drama about a young bandit reinventing himself as a student of an academy.
R
- Renascence (Cdrama 2020)
- Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim 2 is a Kdrama sequel to 2016 Dr. Romantic starring Han Suk Kyu as Teacher Kim of Duldam Hospital.
S
- Search is a Kdrama starring Krystal and Jang Doon Yoon.
- Shi Cha Hai is a Chinese drama about the three generation Zhuang Family running a restaurant.
- Sixteen Shoukougun is a dorama about obsessive love/friendship
- Skate Into Love is a Cdrama about a former frenemies bonding and falling inlove because of skating. Highly recommend this drama. It is fun and cute.
- Something Just Like This is a Chinese drama starring Wu Jinyan and Johnny Huang.
- Sparkle Love is a Cdrama about electric love.
- Sweet First Love is a Cdrama about foster siblings falling in love.
- Suyu is a Chinese drama about a narcissistic Lord and his maidservant.
- Symphony’s Romance is a Cdrama version of Nodame Cantabile, an uneasy friendship between of a pianist and a conductor which turned into a sweet romance.
T
- Tell Me What You Saw (Kdrama Detective 2020)
- The Best of Times is a Cdrama starring Chen Xingxu and Hu Bingqing about bullet trains.
- The Best of You in My MInd is a Cdrama about a childhood sweethearts who fancied each other but can’t tell each other about it.
- The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion is a Cdrama starring Ju Jing Yi and Zhang Zhe Han.
- The Chang’An Youth is a Cdrama about a girl who pretended to be a boy to enter Shengyi School for civil servants.
- The Eight is a Chinese drama about a band of super martial artists who were in search of the 10 Walkers Scroll which will allow them to retire into normal life.
- The Good Detective (Kdrama 2020)
- The Heiress is a Chinese drama about a cross-dressing daughter of a military man.
- The Moon Brightens For You is a Chinese historical costume drama starring Fair Xing and Alan Wu.
- The Night of the Comet 2 is a standalone drama, completely different from the first series.
- The Penthouse: War in Life is a Kdrama about the elite lives in their posh high-rise apartments.
- The Romance of Tiger & Rose is a Cdrama about a girl who got sucked into her own script and lived the adventure in a historical costume drama,.
- The Sleepless Princess (2020) is a Chinese drama about an insomniac princess and a dour general
- The Sweet Girl is a Chinese drama about a fashion designer and a girl member of a thieving team called Superflash. Starring Kris Sun
- The Song of Glory (Cdrama 2020)
- The Wolf is a Cdrama starring Darren Wang and Li Qin.
- The Wonder Woman (Twdrama 2020)
- To All The Guys Who Loved Me is a Kdrama about who had a deja vu of three lifetimes of heartbreaking romances with the same guy.
- To Dear Myself is a Cdrama about three women with different takes on life.
- To Love is a Cdrama about an undercover police starring Kenny Lin and Cass Gai.
- Toshi no sakon is a dorama about a married couple with a 20-year age gap.
- True Beauty is a Kdrama, starring Moon Ga Young.
- True Colours is a Chinese drama about a childhood ‘sweetheart’ who grew up trying to outdo each other by pranking.
U
V
W
- Wacko At Law is a Taiwanese drama starring George Hu and Esther Yeh
- Wait in Beijing is a Chinese drama starring Li Yifeng and Maggie Jiang.
- Way Back Into Love is a Chinese drama starring Daddi Tang Sun Qin
- When the Weather is Fine is a Kdrama starring Park Min Young and Seo Kang Joon
X
Y
- You Are So Sweet (2020) is a Chinese drama starring Eden Zhao and Amy Sun
- Youth Unprescribed is a Chinese drama about four girls and 4 boys meeting and bonding in medical school.
Z
HAPPY VIEWING