Wish Upon A Star

Many current wuxia dramas also used more CG, special effects, and green screens than actual kungfu, martial stunt actions that inadvertently lose the true spirit of wuxia dramas

Yea, it's a simple comparison based on the Top 10 ranked/popular dramas on MDL. My Lovely Sam Soon is #17 most popular in the 2000s.

Yea, i noticed that too, and i accord this to the hugely successful Korean Tsunami x digital social tech that swept the globe. Kdramas trumps both in terms of the number of kdrama productions and the landslide popularity of kdramas vs other dramas.

Great minds think alike ;)

Glad you enjoyed this article! the one thing that surprised me is the landslide popularity of kdramas since the 2000s. For the 2000s, more than 120K had watched Boys Over Flowers ( #01), but only about 45K had watched Hana Yori Dango (#09, and most popular non-kdrama). For the 2010s, kdramas took up the top 43 spots! Even for 1990s, the golden era of jdramas, the most popular drama is Autumn Tale with 9.2K viewers, while 2nd placed jdrama GTO had only 7.2K viewers.

Oh wow - you probably know 1980s' TVB dramas more than me! Felix Wong's Guo Jing is a classic.

Thanks much for offering to help provide sites to watch older jdramas! Are subbing done for jdramas in that website?

heehee.. nowadays, they are watching dramas with me - we just completed The Devil Judge over the weekend :)

thanks for pointing out - have removed from the list

to all: if anyone would like to include boys over flowers, pls hop over to the 2000s list: https://kisskh.at/list/1zEmx8V4

Are there specific ones that you plan to watch?
And thank you mjf314 and MidnightKnight for helping out - Much appreciated! I had problems trying to watch/rewatch some older dramas too.

Oooops thanks for pointing out

Thanks for your comment and sieving out dramas with fewer than 30 ratings - dramas in the 1980s and before are still not as widely watched globally, though many are the classics, and pioneer of many remakes in the subsequent decades. The New Heaven Sword and the Dragon Sabre (1986) by Tony Leung is worth checking out!

And yeah, should have left out "mid" for consistency, though the Korean Wave i felt was stronger in the 2004-5, as more kdramas are exported to more and more countries.

Hopefully, the Japanese production companies will follow the steps of TVB, to make their dramas more accessible to international viewers through subbing and launching their own streaming sites.

Thank you for your kind words and yeah, the bestie vibe on finding someone who shares the same, less mainstream fave, even today via MDL site :)

Classics never grow old! Hope you will enjoy these classics :)

Going by the popularity of kdramas on MDL, you should be with the majority. Hopefully, you can check off Full House from your PTW list this year :)

I had fun reminiscing the times watching dramas with my parents as well while penning this article! Have you watched Alex Su's The Heavenly Sword and Dragon Sabre (2002)? It is one of my fave in the Condor Heroes Trilogy.

It's really a pity many older Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese dramas have not been subbed. Hopefully, in time to come, they will be subbed and easily accessible to viewers via popular streaming services such as Netflix etc!

Glad you found this article informative and hope you will enjoy some of these old but gold dramas!

It has been unfortunately buried under the Korean Wave in the 2000s.. you may want to check out GTO - another hilarious Japanese school drama :)

Thank you! Hope you will find the dramas watch worthy as well :)

Thank you! PP and BB are fun, hilarious watch for the summer! For the Condor Heroes Trilogy, as you have enjoyed The Untamed, you might want to check out The Condor Heroes 95 (1995) for "hidden" cross references :)