Korean Drama

The Case of Itaewon Homicide

Alternative Title: 이태원 살인사건|Itaewon Murder Case
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Film Date: September, 2009
Korean Movie Cast: Jang Geun-Seok, Jeong Jin-Yeong, Kwang-Rok Oh
Description: A college student, Jong-pil Jo, gets into an argument with some youths at fast food restaurant in Itaewon, South Korea. The boy is later found stabbed to death in the restroom of the restaurant. Two Korean-Americans, Pearson and Alex, are known to have gone into the bathroom after Jong-pil Jo and become prime suspects. The prosecution must now determine which of the two committed the crime.

Code Blue 2

Alternative Title: ドクターヘリ緊急救命 2
Genre: Medical
Film Date: January, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Aragaki Yui, Asari Yosuke, Higa Manami , Kodama Kiyoshi , Toda Erika, Yamashita Tomohisa
Description: It has been one and a half years since Aizawa Kosaku, Shiraishi Megumi, Hiyama Mihoko and Fujikawa Kazuo were assigned to Shoyo University’s North Hospital. They have only three months left of their fellowship programme (specialised training programme) to be flight doctors and each of them have come to the crossroads where they have to think of their lives after graduation. Aizawa, who has only one relative – a grandmother currently in a nursing home, starts having doubts about his duties and cannot find a clear direction for his future. Meanwhile, Shiraishi Megumi is unable to forget the past. She had caused their former teacher, Kuroda Shuji, to have his right arm amputated. Then Tachibana Keisuke, a veteran flight doctor, takes up a new post. He has been put in charge of certifying the fellowship programme which will decide their future.

Life of a Freestyle Teenager

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Film Date: January, 2010
Taiwanese Drama Cast: Huang Hong Sheng, Huang Yu Rong, Lee Shiau Shiang
Description: On a leisurely afternoon, a chasing game started in Hsimenting...

Saigo no Yakusoku

Alternative Title: 最後の約束
Genre: Human Drama, Suspense
Film Date: January, 2010
Japanese Drama Cast: Aiba Masaki, Kuroki Meisa, Matsumoto Jun, Ninomiya Kazunari, Ohno Satoshi , Sakurai Sho
Description: "Saigo no Yakusoku" is described as a human suspense story involving the hijack of a major building. The members of Arashi play five young men who happen to be inside, and the story depicts their attempt to escape and their interactions with the other people caught up in the incident.

Stars Falling From the Sky

Alternative Title: 별을 따다 줘 | Byeoreul Ttada Jwo
Genre: Drama, Romance
Film Date: January, 2010
Korean Drama Cast: Choi Jung Won, Jin-Bin Park, Kim Ji Hoon
Description: The drama draws a love story between two co-workers at an insurance company, with Kim playing the company’s whip-smart lawyer. Because he carries the hurt of having been abandoned by his birth mother, he doesn’t easily open his heart to others. The female lead is a 25-year-old employee of the company who becomes responsible for her five younger adopted siblings after her parents meet with sudden deaths.

Soratobu Taiya

Alternative Title: 空飛ぶタイヤ
Genre: Human Drama, Suspense
Film Date: March, 2008
Japanese Drama Cast: Mimura, Mizuno Miki , Nakamura Toru , Tanabe Seiichi
Description: A tire comes off a moving truck and becomes a deadly weapon, hitting a mother and child. The problem was caused by the vehicle manufacturer's failure to recall the vehicle, but the blame falls on the head of the delivery company who, despairing, searches for evidence that the recall was suppressed. Crossing paths with banks, police, weekly magazine writers, the victim's family, and various others, he eventually gets to the truth of the matter.

Ueno Juri to Itsutsu no Kaban

Alternative Title: 上野樹里と5つの鞄
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Film Date: September, 2009
Japanese Drama Cast: Ueno Juri
Description: The series features Ueno taking on five roles in five episodes. As the title suggests, each episode involves a bag of some kind, such as a guitar case or a mysterious delivery package.

Hero (MBC)

Alternative Title: 히어로 | Hero
Genre: Comedy
Film Date: November, 2009
Korean Drama Cast: Lee Joon Ki, Uhm Ki Joon, Yoon So Yi
Description: Hero is the story of Korea's top reporters and ordinary citizens fighting against the society elite's abuse of power. Jin Do Hyuk is a clever and talented reporter who ends up living a life of recklessness and despair when the woman he loved dies. He later decides to start a new life by helping other victims of society's crimes, becoming a modern hero who battles against the non-ethical.

Give Me Food

Alternative Title: 밥 줘! | Bap Jwo!
Genre: Family, Romance
Film Date: March, 2009
Korean Drama Cast: Ha Suk Jin, Kim Byung Se, Kim Hye Sun , Kim Sung Min, Oh Yoon Ah
Description: This drama is about the tumultuous lives of three sisters. Jo Young Ran is trapped in a loveless marriage to her cold and uncaring husband, whom she married after dating for a week. Her older sister Young Shim's poor financial situation and desire to live a rich and glamorous life causes her to quarrel frequently with her husband, while her younger sister Young Mi has a good career is married to a mother's boy.

I'll Give You Everything

Alternative Title: 다 줄거야 | Da Julgeoya
Genre: Drama, Romance
Film Date: October, 2009
Korean Drama Cast: Hong Ah Reum , Kim Hye-Na, Park Jin-Woo
Description: Bo Young began her career as a teacher in a small village. Alone in a remote place, Bo Young was approached by Jung Gil who introduced himself as a single bachelor. Their relationship became serious over time to the point where they promised to marry each other. However, Jung Gil turned out to be a married man and his wife, Yong Shim, and mother-in-law, who learned about his affair, assaulted Bo Young in front of him. Betrayed by Jung Gil who helplessly let Yong Shim and his mother-in-law humiliate her, Bo Young decided to get back at them. When Bo Young and Yong Shim happened to give birth to their daughters at the same hospital, Bo Young deliberately switched the newborn babies in an act of revenge and in the hope of her own daughter being raised in an affluent environment. While raising Yong Shim's daughter, Bo Young did not care about her at all, and as a result Yong Shim's daughter felt deprived of love. Bo Young only wished for her real daughter's happiness. Yet, contrary to Bo Young's expectations, things were going the other way around.....