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It is the end of the Edo Era a flourishing period when stylish civilians samurai and old-fashioned farmers live peacefully together.However if you take a closer look at their lives youll notice that it is actually a parallel world in which modern conveniences such as cellular phones personal computers microwave ovens motorcycles subways and so on exist. If you enter a night club...
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It was the Sengoku-era when the warlords usurped each other. There was a man whose soul was overtaken by the ways of tea and material greed as he worked his way up toward greater power and status. His name was Sasuke Furuta a subordinate warrior of Nobunaga Oda. With his world broadened by Nobunaga the Genius and his spiritual insight learned from Senno Soueki the Master of Tea Sasuke drove...
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Raised from birth as a man the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble spirit make her a shining figure in the eyes of both men and women but she is torn between her chosen life of service and duty to class and country and her own heart and desires. She lives as a noble amidst the opulence of Versailles but her keen...
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In 19th-century London class lines are sharply drawn and the social standing to which people are born dictates the path their lives will follow. Emma an honest and hardworking young maid never felt her place in life to be a burden. But then she met William a member of the gentry and the eldest son of a wealthy family. His warm smile and earnest affection threaten to capture her heart... but...
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Based on the same story that produced the classic musical The Sound of Music this is the story of Maria who leaves her life in a convent to take up the responsibility of taking care of Captain Trapps...
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In the Edo or Tokugawa period 1600-1868 Ran a female wandering samurai whose skill with the katana is only matched by her taste for sake rice wine is joined by a chinese martial artist who calls herself Lady Meow of the Iron Cat Fist. Tsukikage Ran has individual episodes that are just short stories of their...
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This story takes place about one hundred years ago. Nadja is a bright cheerful girl who was raised in an orphanage near London England. Nadja was entrusted to the orphanage when she was a baby. So she thought her father and mother were dead. But before her thirteenth birthday she found out that her mother might be alive..Nadja sets out on a journey to find her mother! With all of Europe as the...
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The Investiture of the Gods is a Chinese television series directed by Wang Weiting and Yang Jianwu. The television series are based on the classical novel Fengshen Yanyi also known as Investiture of the Gods or Creation of the...
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1 Fixed ideas about a national hero are brought up for a secrutiny. No hero has ever been sent by heaven. He has emerged as one ultimately after undergoing a lifelong process. Drama Yi Sun-shin is designed to challenge the fixed ideas about him who has been remembered in the form of an imposing statue standing at the Gwanghwamun intersection in Seoul and the Hyeonchungsa Shrine in South...
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Baffling crimes and the clues that lead to the killer. Chilling reenactments of the victims last days and the toll the deaths took on family and friends along with interviews and...
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The Great Seer begins during the reign of King Gongmin. But despite being about seers geomancers divinators and the like this drama is less about the fantasy and more about the political movers and shakers — people who had the power to advise and therefore control kings. Ji Jin-hee plays Yi Seong-gye the general who led the overthrow of Goryeo and established the Joseon Dynasty...
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During the chaotic times at the end of the Qing dynasty and in the early Republic of China Elder escort master Dai establishes a reputable armed escort business. His disciple Liu Anshun is not only the one to follow him up as head of the business he is also the one Master Dai wants to marry his daughter Dai Rong. Unfortunately Liu Anshun is forced by circumstances to go to Beijing alone where...
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The Grand Canal features popular stars now and then to celebrate TVBs 20th Anniversary in 1987. The story originates from well-known historical figures in China during the Sui Dynasty. The TV drama covers different historical events such as the peasant uprising leading to the downfall of the Sui Dynasty the rise of the Tang Dynasty and the politics involved therein. Tony Leung and Felix Wong...
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The life of Chinese writer Xiao Hong from her childhood in the Heilongjiang Province to her final days in Hong Kongs Repulse Bay. The love of the authors life newspaper editor Xiao Jun and the inspiration she drew from him as well as the surrounding literary scene in creating some of Chinas most enduring masterpieces is explored against the backdrop of a turbulent time that included the...
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In 1945 after the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War Mao Zedong and members of the Chinese Communist Party CCP travel to Chongqing for a meeting with Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang KMT. With help from the China Democratic League the Double Tenth Agreement is signed between the KMT and CCP with both sides agreeing to stop the civil war and to establish a multi-party government in...
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The story of what happened to Anne Shirley before she was...
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The story of what happened to Anne Shirley before she was...
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Before she was the most famous female ruler in Chinese history Wu Mei Liang was a woman vying for her husbands’ love. While her first husband kept her at arm’s length by a prophecy foretelling a woman of Wu stealing the Tang Dynasty her second husband welcomed her with open arms. During her time as a minor consort to Li Shi Min she learned how an effective Emperor rule his court....
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The Conquerors Story is a retelling of how Liu Bang influenced from being a commoner to becoming the first Emperor Emperor Gao of the Han...
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Set amongst the Republican era the story tells of Jiang Yu who is a ruthless business man that sets out to seek revenge on his enemy via punishing his daughter Wu Cai Hong who is in love with her childhood sweetheart. The series is scripted and produced by famed c-author Tong Hua as well as directed by the head director from Bu Bu Jing...
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When an incident occurred at 7 a.m. on Jan. 2 1629 in front of the main gate to Edo Castle it set in motion one of the most exciting stories ever told about the early days of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Just one day earlier the Shoguns relatives and high ranking Daimyo lords had paid their New Years respects. The next day was for lower ranking lords and Hatamoto retained by the Shogun to do the...
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Tenchijin centers on the life of Naoe Kanetsugu a samurai who lived in the 16th century in Echigo Province in north central Japan. Kanetsugu was trained by Uesugi Kenshin who taught him that living ones life with honor and integrity was more important than winning battles. After Kenshins death Kanetsugu continues to loyally serve the Uesugi family supporting Kenshins son Kagekatsu and...
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The story takes place during the reign of the Ryukyu Kingdom 19th Century. Nakama plays Mazuru a young woman who wants to complete her studies despite her gender restrictions so she takes advantage of the disappearance of her step brother and disguises herself as an Eunuch named Son Neion and passes the exam to be a royal govenrments official. This is her first time having to play both a...
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This drama depicts the turbulent period spanning from the reign of King Taejo born Lee Seong Gye the founder of the Joseon dynasty to King...
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During the late Heian era a youth who did not know his birth parents was raised by the Heike also known as the Taira a samurai clan of emerging influence. Taira no Kiyomori Matsuyama Kenichi was in truth the illegitimate son of Emperor Shirakawa. With his adoptive father Tadamori Nakai Kiichi he got rid of the pirates in the Seto Insland Sea and was trained to be a samurai. In a period...
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Continuation of Legend of the Condor...
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About 500 years ago during the time of Chosun Dynasty Korea boasted a rigidly hierarchical and male dominated social structure. Set in this period Jewel in the Palace is based on a true story about a legendary girl Jang Geum who became the first woman to be the supreme royal physician of her times. Despite her poor condition as a low class girl in the male dominated society Jang Geum...