Historical/Period/Fantasy Dramas

(Japan, 1549 - 1582) Historical movie based on true historical facts.  FL planned to kill her arranged marriage husband. Both fell in love & ML grew a nation thru bloodshed.

(China, 1939) - Bad playboy ML falls for innocent widow while making a bet w/his ultimate conquest a manipulative businesswoman also widowed.

(Korea, 1949) - A Japanese woman & a Korean woman form an unlikely bond as the Korean war starts.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty) - Fiction fantasy about 2 people come to back to life as vampires & 1 is hellbent on revenge for his death.

Clothes designer FL hits her head & travels back in time.  FL marries the newly appointed emperor & has to fight getting killed by Princess who is a jealous rival for ML's attention.

(China, 1912 - 1949 Republic of China) Poor maid works for aggressive male heir as a cook, but wants to be a police officer. Both attracted to each other but deny it.

Merman prince saved by warring clan princess. She makes him her servant & they fall in love.

(Japan, 1900s) Story about the last princess of Korea who was taken hostage in Japan in 1925, forced to marry a Japanese prince & briefly abandoned by her country. Eventually she makes it back.

(Japan, 1904 - Russo Japanese War) - ML survives a battle & is seeking stolen gold.  Bands w/tribe girl & convict to thwart 7th division Japanese + other convicts.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  Story of Prince Sado's son, crown Prince Yi San who was tasked w/ destroying historical records pertaining to his father's bloodshed.  

(Japan, Japanese Colonel Rule)  Japanese try to stamp out Chinese culture through suppression of reading / books of Chinese culture.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  Magistrate's son falls for a servant which is against the law. The son also is a member of a group that robs the rich & redistributes to the poor.

(China, Republican Era)  FL marries old guy to kil him as payback for killing her family.  His son & FLfall in love.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  China wins the war. ML, the Magician is being pursued by a blood thirsty magician. FL is adopted to substitute for princess in an arranged marriage to China. ML & FL fall for each other.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  Princess runs away from palace to see 4 groom candidates.  An inspector runs into her.  At end king strips princess of her title as she wishes & her + inspector become a couple in free world.

(China, Ming Dynasty) - Female martial arts loner protects a pregnant palace maid & both head to the hidden city while being pursued by the emperor/his men.  Hidden city full of heroes & hostiles.

(China, Three Kingdoms era)  Commander steals a boy & trains him to be him.  

(China, Republica Era) - FL in a loveless marriage & finds out she is married to an opium dealer.  A general helps her realize her strength & hey fall in love.

(China, 907 AD, Tang Dynasty) - Emperor marries son's love. Emperor is killed by his brother & Empress has become just like those around her (scheming, sly, cold)

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty) In 1762 story depicting the Crown Prince Sado & his eroding relationship w/ his father, the King. 

(America, 1800s) Story based on massacre/lynching of 19 Chinese in 1871 in CA.  FL came to America & was stalked by a corrupt murdering Chinese businessman. 

(Japan, Edo Period - 1560)   HS transported back in time.  Students must rescue hostage students & get back to rock in time to port back to future.

(China, 928 AD - Tang Dynasty) - The family dynamics of a King, his wife, ex-wife, & his 3 sons.

Book writer, former royal guard is hired by king to find runaway princess. Once found they work together to solve corruption involving missing women. 

Girl dresses as boy to learn martial arts.  School ace & she fall in love but have to overcome obsessed childhood friend.

Country girl follows her crush to big city, but due to her illiteracy she doesn't know he dumped her. She runs into group of strong woman activist members that she ends up joining.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty- 15th Century) *Same timeline as Princess's Man, but no romance story intertwined.  Face reader gets caught up in the power struggle between current young, crowned king / Kim Jong Seo & an ambitious Prince Soo Yang. Prince Soo Yang real king in History.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  Version of the" Crowned Clown"

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  Crowned prince haunted/cursed by dead spirits of murdered prior crowned prince & his mom. Based on true story of Prince Sado.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  Story/book of Hong Gil Dong was considered treason. A bookworm, bookpig (photographic memory) & a bookwolf (insane collector) seek/protect book from monarchy/nobles supporters.

Maid becomes friends w/consort princess who is hard to handle. They plot to leave the palace as commoners as other consort plots against consort princess to have miscarriage.

(Korea 1800s) FL dropped off w/ geisang.  She pursued music thru a master even though woman were not allowed to sing. 1867 fist female pansori singer.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  [Web drama] Modern day guy warps into a Josean times servants body as a game player. He has to solve family polictics issues in order to gain points in the game in order to go home.

(Joseon Dynasty)  Married couple don't communicate & let their imaginations run wild w/ false ideas.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  2 boys realize their love for each other

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  Girl doesn't want to be a dirge singer, a person paid to morn because nobles don't. A bastard son of a gisaeng treated badly @ his dads home. They meet & work thru their issues.

(Korean, Ming [1368 - 1644] to Qing Dynasty [1644- 1912])  ML is a very good messenger but gets injured & 14 yrs later has gambling troubles. Rides 1 last time to save king & deliver justice for a female client whose dad was framed by a lord.

(Korea &China, Qing & Joseon Dynasty)  Returnees from Qing empire are rounded up for return to Qing. Some could pay to have loved one return, but returnee was considered pond scum a treated that way. FL returned w/arrow in ear.

(Korea, Goryeo Dynasty) - King likes men so asks his lover to sub in for him with the queen during scheduled intimate nights.

Servant to noble gets higher job position & cheats noble out of all his assets using a gisaeng. They fall in love.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  FL exacting revenge for her mother's death & her rape. She & the chief commander for the king's army fall in love. The king's son plots his succession to king.

(Korea, 1400's - 1500's) Super gory & tons of sexual content. Acting was really good though. Hard to believe there was an actual king like this in history.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  FL causes the men she sleeps w/ erectile disfunction.  A man who has an unusually large penis is her soulmate.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty) 18th Centry - A musical  - Daughter of a courtesan marries a Governer's son.  He leaves to study/get official position.  New Governer tries to bed her, but she stays loyal to husband. Focus point is about government changing its philosophy towards its people/justice.

(Korea)  A writer comes to get tale of servant's love affair w/ an aristocrat lady.  A lot of groping w/ a few mild sex scenes. 

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  Moderate gore & about 8 sex scenes, some a bit awkward looking. A glimpse of a castration.

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  FL forced to be a boy in order to be a painter. Her master falls for her but she loves another. A few sex scenes: 1 long realistic love, 1 master dominance (cringy), a couple others. Undertone of lesbianism?

(Korea, Joseon Dynasty)  ML has an affair w/ Queen & publishes a naughty book w/ her info.

(Dropped) FL daughter of murdered mom palace chef. She quietly raises in rank to doctor.