My first K-Drama and Asian Drama was Good Morning Call on Netflix. Although that wasn't what hooked me to Asian Drama that was Mischievous Kiss (Japan) that got me hooked. However there have been a ton of K-Dramas I have loved and are on my Fav list.
I have been watching FILIPINO Movies for some time. They are great but haven't really found many series (Dramas) to watch yet. The movies I have seen have been great so I will look at this list closely and see what ones I can watch.
I agree with most but sometimes the older stuff on the list is there because you only recently gained access to it. For example Westside Story (2003) was added to netflix a few months ago. It is one I went looking for in the past but wasn't available well now it is so just doing a date cutoff can be the wrong way to go.
I started out watching Asian Drama's with the JDrama Good Morning Call back in 2016 although I didn't finish it. Reading subtitles was odd for me and I was watching stuff well working so I couldn't watch things like this at the time. Than a few months later I started watching Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo and that is when I fell in love with Asian Drama. Since that I have watched 100's of drama and what I have found is that JDrama's are almost impossible to categories as they are all over the place. You get great ones like Coffee & Vanilla (2019), From Five To Nine (2015), HapiMari/Happy Marriage!? (2016) and they you will get really horrible ones like Haru ga Kita (2018).
Of all the Asian Drama Japanizes tend to be the shortest avg only 10 to 12 ep per show. That is a mixed bag. Shorter means they get to the point but some of my all time fav drama's are longer ones. They have more time to tell a more complete story.
Although I didn't start with Taiwanese Drama I quickly found them to be my overall favorites. Overall they tend to incorporate allot of Comedy and because of this they tend to go less dark overall. I personally love this about them. They hit some of the best here are a few I really liked.
Smiling Pasta Love Keeps Going Someone like you. Inborn Pairs (Very Very Long) Love Now (Very Long) Love Always (Long) Devil Beside You Back to 1989 Fall in Love With Me Attention Love! Bromance Refresh man MoMo Love
When I first started getting into Asian Drama's I watched drama's from all markets covered by MDL however I found most HK drama to be closer to western drama. I can't put my finger on why but there different from almost every other market that MDL covers. Because of this I rarely watch HK Dramas and those that I do none have made it into any of my top anything lists. I can't say that for any other market that is covered by MDL. Some of those markets I have watched less Drama than HK ones so it isn't so much I am not getting exposed to enough of them.
The overall story was good. The ending could have been better. They tossed in the old hack of a last min dream that stopped us for getting a wedding but overall was worth watching and better than avg.
Personally I would prefer it if it was the female actors were going shirtless :) but most of the time I don't find it a big deal although sometime they seem to make a bigger deal out of a guy going shirtless then it seems like they should.
Is that site still active. When going to it I am greeted with a Username / Password field and a really confusing about screen. It looks like it was moved private at some point but they didn't really make it clear what the requirements are to join.
1) For some reason they seem angry when talking. Even during love scenes they seem angry. It seems to fade after a few ep and I expect giving enough shows my mind would adapt to there tones.
2) I haven't seen many see point 3 however those that I did see were very unique and very interesting to watch. I am interested in seeing more but see point 3.
2) Finding and watching them. Until very recently Thai programming didn't really appear in Netflix US or Viki or any other streaming service that covers my area so in order to watch them many times you had to go to the grey sites to get them. There was a version of It Started with a Kiss made in Thai it took me days to locate, download, and confirm all the files I needed to watch the series. That is a fair amount of work for someone like me who is a tech head I can't your avg person being able to see some of the stuff I have watch.
You were anticipating? omo so cute ;) Thanks a lot ❤️ Glad you like it. ^^ Nice that you have nostalgic feelings…
HK was under UK Control until 1997. Granted that is now 23 years ago but the TV and Movies industry was firmly in place in the HK by than. Compare that to South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and China where the western influences were very little when there TV and Movie Industries started to be produced.
With that said it doesn't really matter why that is true. What matters is it is True. HK Shows have a much more modern western feel to them and don't really have the innocence that most asian drama have.
Example: The Korean Movie - My Little Bride (2004) compare that to HK - My Wife is 18 (2002) . Way different feel between the two stores.
Of all the Asian Drama Japanizes tend to be the shortest avg only 10 to 12 ep per show. That is a mixed bag. Shorter means they get to the point but some of my all time fav drama's are longer ones. They have more time to tell a more complete story.
Smiling Pasta
Love Keeps Going
Someone like you.
Inborn Pairs (Very Very Long)
Love Now (Very Long)
Love Always (Long)
Devil Beside You
Back to 1989
Fall in Love With Me
Attention Love!
Bromance
Refresh man
MoMo Love
1) For some reason they seem angry when talking. Even during love scenes they seem angry. It seems to fade after a few ep and I expect giving enough shows my mind would adapt to there tones.
2) I haven't seen many see point 3 however those that I did see were very unique and very interesting to watch. I am interested in seeing more but see point 3.
2) Finding and watching them. Until very recently Thai programming didn't really appear in Netflix US or Viki or any other streaming service that covers my area so in order to watch them many times you had to go to the grey sites to get them. There was a version of It Started with a Kiss made in Thai it took me days to locate, download, and confirm all the files I needed to watch the series. That is a fair amount of work for someone like me who is a tech head I can't your avg person being able to see some of the stuff I have watch.
With that said it doesn't really matter why that is true. What matters is it is True. HK Shows have a much more modern western feel to them and don't really have the innocence that most asian drama have.
Example: The Korean Movie - My Little Bride (2004) compare that to HK - My Wife is 18 (2002) . Way different feel between the two stores.