The Scandal

This is the prominent Chinese adaptation, but it was actually a major Chinese-Korean co-production. Acclaimed South Korean director Hur Jin-ho directed it, starring top South Korean actor Jang Dong-gun alongside Chinese superstars Zhang Ziyi and Cecilia Cheung. The film uniquely resets the story in the glamorous, politically chaotic world of 1930s Shanghai right before World War II. You can stream it for free on platforms like Tubi and Amazon Prime Video.

A massive 65-episode Japanese daytime television drama broadcast on Fuji TV and Tokai TV. It modernized the story, focusing on a wealthy businessman's wife named Toko who enters an immoral game of passion and betrayal with her ex-lover, using an innocent woman as a pawn to test their own toxic feelings

Dangerous Liaisons (1978): Directed by prominent filmmaker Toshiya Fujita, this cinematic version adapted Laclos' novel into a modern-day setting. It was produced in the edgy, adult-oriented "Roman Porno" style popular in Japanese cinema at the time, capturing the dark, cynical nature of the original book's games. It was nominated for Best Director at the Japan Academy Film Prize

The drama's story twists around to ask what would happen if Lee Myong Ryong was unattractive, while his servant Bang Ja Jeon was attractive? During Lee Myong Ryong's courtship with Lady Chun Hyang both parties use their servants to communicate...

Crown Prince Yi Gak finds that he has been transported from the Joseon Dynasty to modern-day Seoul. He meets Hong Se Na, who bears a striking resemblance to his dead wife, and is determined to solve the 300-year-old mystery of her death. With his own resemblance to the CEO’s grandson at the company where Se Na works, Gak assumes the identity of the young man to stay close to her. Can the Crown Prince navigate a modern corporation to find clues to his own time period?

When a total eclipse of the sun takes place, Go Ha Jin is transported back in time to the start of the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea during King Taejo's rule. She wakes up in the body of the 16-year-old Hae Soo and finds herself living in the house of the 8th Prince Wang Wook, who is married to Hae Soo's cousin. She soon befriends several of the princes and meets the ostracized 4th Prince, Wang So. Although knowing she should not get involved in palace intrigues over the succession to the throne, she inadvertently becomes a pawn in the struggle, as several of the Princes fall in love with her.