A Japanese take on Notting Hill. Sosuke Nakata, is just your everyday salaried worker. There is really nothing special that stands out about Nakata. He is a serious guy, whose life mostly consists of going back and forth to the office each day. Suddenly one day though, Nakata just happens to meet a certain woman by coincidence-top star, Hikaruko Kirishima. Just by talking to her, Nakata is left standing feeling like he has just seen a dream. Several days later, Kirishima calls an emergency press conference. And there she announces..."I am now dating a gentleman by the name of Sosuke Nakata, a salaried worker, whom I intend to marry." An announcement about their "relationship," out of the blue! More than that, this top star's boyfriend is just your typical salaried worker!! What does Kirishima have up her sleeve as she hides behind her intrepid smile?! Nakata obviously has no idea about what happened at the press conference. He also doesn't know what lies ahead for him at work, and about Hikaruko's true intentions.
One's real wife and one's lover: The joys, displeasures, longings and high hopes of those different women."The grass is always greener on the other side." This drama depicts these different and contrasting worlds.And then there's the men who have no idea what is going on in the hearts of these women. Here's a chance to view a battle between two women from the sidelines.Michiko Asai is a housewife living in a one-family house somewhere in Tokyo. She's been married eight years now to Yoshio, who works for a major advertising firm. Three years ago, she discovered that Yoshio was having an affair. Michiko was called by her husband's lover Chizuko Osawa, who told her that her husband didn't consider her to be a woman. Since then, Michiko has been paying a lot of attention to her looks and appearance to keep Yoshio interested in her, making special dishes for him every night and doing her very best to be a devoted and attractive wife.
After the famous author Xia He Jie crashed the movie premiere that supermodel Amanda attended, he was sentenced to 158 hours of community service at a kindergarten. And thus, it began the most hellish 158 hours of his life. There he met Ma Xiao Qian, a teacher who not only didn't fall for his charming personality like the rest of the female population, she made him suffer for every minute of his community service. What he didn't know was that Xiao Qian was a former neighbor who he had bullied relentlessly as a child. Now, she is bent on revenging for the miserable childhood that she endured under his tyrannical reign.
Beating Heart is a South Korean television drama series, produced by the MBC network and broadcast in 2005. The series consists of six two-part stories, with each story having its own team of writer and director. It focuses on the lives of a typical Korean family, examining the relationships between the four main characters, their romantic interests, and other family members, while answering the question "When did you feel your heart beating the hardest?"
In 2006, the series was broadcast by the KBFD network in Hawaii as My Trembling Heart. It has also been released on DVD in South Korea and Japan.
Calling For Love is a 2010 Taiwanese drama starring Charlene Choi, Mike He, Chen Zhi Kai and Zhou Cai Shi. It was produced by Comic Ritz International Production with Chai Zhi Ping as producer and directed by Lin He Long.
The series was first broadcast in Taiwan on free-to-air Chinese Television System from May 16 to August 15, 2010 every Sunday at 22:00-23:00. On October 18 then "Purple Rose" aired after was not approved by the mainland side quasi broadcast license late, and eventually replaced by the "Sweetheart", "starlight fairy". May 16, 2010, broadcast on CTS.
This is the dramatized version of the Naoki Award-winning novel by author, Kei Yuikawa. Moe Hayasaka is an office worker in an import service company who cannot devote herself in romance. On the other hand, Moe’s close friend, Ruriko Murono, who snatches Moe’s boy friend away to marry him for her third time, is interested in nothing but romantic affairs. Through their love and friendship, this drama portrays women in their 30s being rocked by marriage, divorce, infidelity, and work.
When the man you love dies in a tragic accident, is it possible to go on with your life? Han Siyi was happy with her life with her boyfriend Ling Hongpei, but Hongpei dies tragically in a car accident one day. Unable to move on to the other world, Hongpei lingers around his ex-girlfriend after becoming a ghost and tries to help her recover from her devastating loss. Can Hongpei help Siyi find happiness again with the nerdy Wang Shuhai?
Lai family has 4 children: One narcissist, one workaholic, one divorcee, and one social butterfly. None of which wanted to settle down. Lai parents think the kids may have been spoiled by the family fortune. To correct this problem, the parents issued the kids an ultimatum, get married within the year or be disinherited. Reluctantly, the kids scramble to find that true love they have missed all their lives.
Set during the turbulent years of the Japanese occupation until independence, and a few years before the division of Korea into North and South, the story is about the first and last time that Korea had a single, unified national basketball team, which made history by advancing to the quarterfinals of the 1948 London Olympics. The drama follows the loves, conflicts, unity, and emotional victory of young athletes who cling to the sport as the bright spot in the darkness of their times.
Hyun Jong-hyun is a webtoon writer and works part-time at a bookstore. He always dreamed of working of as webtoon writer, but he has difficulties due to his stubborn and self-centered personality. He also has a cat named Boggil. He first met his cat on the street during a rainy day. Since then, they have lived together and Hyun Jong-Hyun only opens his mind to Boggil.
Athit, a driver, pretends to be his boss Rattawee and Wilailuck, a servant, pretends to be a high-class woman by stealing her mistress dresses. Athit and Wilailuck go on a date and fall in love not knowing that the other is lying about who they are. When their bosses find out, they demand both servants tell each other the truth, but they continue to lie. When Rattawee meets Montira, Wilailuck's mistress, he immediately falls for her and tells Athit to continue lying. Rattawee and Montira spend time together and start to fall in love.
The day Ming Xia-xi transferred to her new school, she got herself into a fight with the most popular kids in school, who also happened to be the most arrogant, devilish pretty boys in school. Before she knew it, she became public enemy number 1, but nothing can defeat this outgoing martial artist.
Seo Young-joo was abandoned by her parents as a child and betrayed by the man she loved. But despite all that, she stays positive as she raises her five-year-old daughter on her own while working part-time jobs. Yeong-ju, a single mother who is not a single mother. Joo-ri, who became a divorcee to escape the shackles of marriage. Mi-ri, who became a single mother because she had no choice. Bong-sook, a divorcee who wants to get married again even if she has to say she is a widow. This drama depicts the lives of four women with their own pasts, who face the prejudices of the world, sometimes hurt, sometimes fight, sometimes grit their teeth, and ultimately overcome their own traumas and live each day.
A mother of four daughters and the president of a kimchi factory decides to embark on a grand marriage scheme for her children... by having them cohabitate with four eligible bachelors.
In 2017, a group of genius scientists achieve a remarkable breakthrough in bioengineering. However, all the new technologies are put into military use, beginning a new round of arms race. Vanguards, as the most significant achievement of the modern bioengineering and the most advanced weapon, are widely utilized in the race. Although vanguards are exceptionally combat-effective, their life expectancy is shortened by the nanomachines they use. Usually, most vanguards will retire from the army after a number of years in service.
The heroine Liuli has also consumed too much of her lifespan after executing missions for a long time. With only 380 days left in her life, Liuli receives a new mission, to rescue a hostage being held in a civilian facility. It is without doubt a difficult mission for a vanguard like Liuli, who only knows how to kill and battle. However, Liuli obediently decides to accept the mission in the end.
During the mission, Liuli surprisingly finds that the man who holds the hostage was once a vangu
Although at first unwillingly, Seo Yun Wook and Han Pil Seung later become the best of sister/brother-in-law. They depend on each other for help, trouble, and fun. Seo Yun Jung, Pil Seung's wife, is grateful at the happy relationship, but things go astray when Wook grows a greater affection for Seung. When Wook confesses her feelings for Seung, the two start to grow apart. Although they later end up in the same police department, they try hard to avoid each other, and Jung starts to realize the reason why.
Cha Sung Joon is Wook's friend and the son of a rich hotel owner. Although he knows that Wook likes her brother-in-law, he never gives up his feelings for her. Things seem to turn out alright when Wook starts to date Cha and forget about Seung , but her sister Jung dies. The dangerous yet innocent love for her brother-in-law puts Wook in a terrible situation...how is love different in a family?
Conspiracy in the Court, is a 2007 Korean historical drama broadcast on KBS2. The mystery thriller revolves around a murder case set in Hansung, the capital of Korea during the latter years of the Joseon dynasty when the nation was experiencing a rapid influx of western influences. Featuring a band of newcomers in the leading roles, Conspiracy in the Court entails a story of four young visionary idealists and King Jeongjo, Joseon's popular 22nd monarch who fought for commoners' rights and bureaucratic reformation. Despite low ratings averaging 6.00%, it was lauded for its high standard of content and art direction.
Kongkai lives his life as a playboy, so his mother wants him to get married with a girl who can make him better. So, she forces him to marry with Arunprapai, a good girl she finds for him.
Arunprapai accepts to marry with a guy who she doesn't love to avoid the rumor that she commits adultery with Phuchong, her ex-boyfriend who is going to have a baby with another girl by accident.
However, Kongkai and Arunprapai's marriage life is not smooth because Kongkai also has girlfriend named Prungchat and she wants to get him back.
Bagels & Bubbels follows the impossible love story of two young people with a completely different life who meet each other by destiny. What happens when a simple baker's boy falls in love with an international superstar?