Suzuki Sensei was the only curious work for me this season, albeit not without controversy.
1. Lie to Me 내게 거짓말을 해봐 (Finished 1/16)  Tags: Comedy, Romance Gong Ah Jung, a level 5 Ministry of Culture official, gets entangled in a web of lies when she mistakenly lies that she's married to Hyun Ki Joon, a noble hotel manager from an affluent family. Their relationship is further complicated when Ki Joon's ex-fiance and a close friend of his brother's, Oh Yoon Joo, reappears in his life. Snobbish, immature, banal and cringy as hell. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Business, Comedy, Romance Gu Ae Jung was once the most popular member of the girl band, ‘The National Treasure Girls’. When the band broke up ten years ago, she received the bulk of the blame. Despite her warm personality, her career has suffered ever since and now she vies for air-time as a B-list celebrity on variety shows in order to earn an income. Dokko Jin is a top movie star at the height of his career and his next goal is to break into Hollywood and gain recognition as an international and global actor. However, his attempts to get his first international breakthrough gets scuppered due to a series of unfortunate encounters with Gu Ae Jung. Despite his initial dislike, Dokko Jin surprisingly finds his heart beating a little quicker from their encounters. Is this the beginning of what could be his greatest love? Recycled over and over tropes. Again psychotic FL and snobbish ML. To like this drama need to watch only kdrama, and that has under 0.1% of worthy works. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Life, Youth Nao Yoshino has failed the entrance exam for her target high school. Devastated and defeated, she enrolls in a technical high school called Kenritsu Asuka Kougyou Koukou, or "Asukou" for short. Out of the 148 entering freshmen, only three are girls, and Nao is the only one in her class. Surrounded by boys and stuck taking part in dirty, challenging, technical classes that she doesn't want to take, Nao finds herself feeling frustrated and alone. But when her male classmates, one by one, begin to come around her and lift her up, Nao learns...maybe her new school's not so bad after all. Even Japanese reverse harem with constant poverty themes is so much better than countless Korean fakes. Overall Rating: 6/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Drama, Melodrama Family relationships can be complicated and tortured. Bong U Ri is a loving, dutiful daughter who does her best to accommodate the needs of her deaf mother and mentally challenged stepfather. After a tragedy that takes the life of her mother, U Ri’s step-brother, Bong Ma Ru, leaves after promising to come back but never does. As U Ri grows up and searches for her stepbrother, she meets Cha Dong Ju, a young man from a wealthy family who is tortured by family secrets that he witnessed as a boy. Although Dong Ju lost his hearing in a childhood accident, he has learned to compensate for his disability so that he can keep his deafness a secret from those around him. Dong Ju and U Ri learn that they are connected by Ma Ru, who has taken on a new identity as Jang Jun Ha. How will the three reconcile their unexpected connection? Childhood introductions are really bad, because no matter how good they are what comes next is always typical drama only good for dumping thus it's only additional waste of time that can run for many-many hours. I probably should rewind all this childhood part to not fall into this trap ever again. And revenge makes everything even worse. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance Sunwoo In Young has been dating the same man for the past 10 years and, at 33 years old, is waiting for the big question. When she finds out he's cheated on her, she flat out breaks up with him, determined to continue her life. At the same time, her best friends Park Seo Yeon and Kang Hyun Joo face their own relationship problems. A sex-and-the-city style story about three woman who face the ups and downs of being career minded at an age where society expects them to be married. It looks as if Korean drama is in constant bitter competion for the title of the most banal and primitive. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance Two strangers, both proposed marriage to their respective girl/boyfriend, were rejected on the same day. They decided that the best way to deal with the rejection was to get drunk, real drunk. During the 24 hours of their crazy drunkenness, these two stranger became fast friends and got married... to each other. When they finally sobered up, they embarked on a mission to undo every crazy thing they did while they were drunk and prayed that their girl/boyfriend don't find out. Silly concept, silly realization. Fake relations are always a minus. Overall Rating: 6/10 |
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 Tags: Business, Comedy, Romance, Drama It all started when Zha Mei Le (Cyndi Wang) was just a little girl. She overheard her parents decided to get a divorce and deciding which child should stay with who, both of them didn't want Mei Le, so Mei Le decided to change that. She started doing her best at everything, being well behaved, caring, obedient. She achieved a lot of certificates, everyone enjoyed to be with her at work, and her boss just admired her hard work. That's how she met her boyfriend Han Yi Feng (Eli Shih), through her kind and caring soul, even his family loved her, except his brother, Han Yi Lei (Mike He). Kind hearted Mei Le, was just doing a favor that her boyfriend asked to pick up Yi Lei at the airport, and right from the start, the two of them disliked each other. But on the other hand, Mei Le was also trying really hard to fulfill her boyfriend's dream of owning a bakery. But when she finds out her relationship with Yi Feng, isn't as pure as she thought it was after discovering he cheated with a worker at their own bakery, she finds herself falling in love with his brother. While Taiwanese drama are often silly, Chinese drama are mostly pretentious, cynical and constantly seeking for praise while remaining infantile. A very bad mix. This one is also outright stupid . Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Family Songkran, a wealthy real estate mogul and notorious womanizer, partners with his best friend, Sia Ou, to acquire land from Ingdao's father, Saeng. Ingdao, who runs her family's orange farm, has a mild-mannered boyfriend, Nu, and a younger sister, Ingjun, who joins Songkran’s company as an accountant. Songkran manipulates Ingjun into signing away the land, leaving her heartbroken. Seeking revenge, Ingdao transforms into the stunning Daopradub with the help of her friend Moddaeng, vowing to reclaim the land and punish Songkran. Revenge comedy lakorn is hopeless. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Business, Comedy, Romance The story is centered around a 34-year-old woman, Lee So Yeong, with a babyface, as she works to become a fashion designer and overcomes obstacles like only having a high school diploma and a bad credit history. Choi Jin Uk is the heir of the famous Jokbal restaurant with millions of dollars in annual revenue. But Choi Jin Uk goes against his father and leaves his parents' house. Choi Jin Uk starts to work at another company to accomplish his dream. Against his will, Choi Jin Uk starts working in the fashion department. With his sweet character, he survives there and meets Lee So Yeong. Comedy here is cringe. Zero originality or experiments. Just omnipresent staleness. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Romance, Family The story of a young single mother, Do Mi Sol, and her quest to make the world a warmer place to live in. Low effort primitivity stretched again for freaking 50 hours. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance Tall, with a perfect figure and his qualifications as an Ivy League graduate, Lee Han is Seoul's top male nanny. He is employed by Seo Do Young as a live-in nanny to look after her two young children, Eun Bi and Jung Min. Koreans have zero idea how to make childcare drama while their comedy is bad as usual. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Romance, Drama, Melodrama Two very different men fall in love with Jang Mi Ri, a woman whose life is a complicated web of lies, propelled by her greedy desires that stem from an unfortunate childhood. Jang Myung Hoon is an ambitious hotelier who maintains perfect control of himself and his life, while Yutaka is the warm and gentle heir of a Korean-Japanese hotel conglomerate. Their love for Mi Ri and her tragic ambition eventually leads them down the path of destruction. Debts. Female dependent position. Love triangle. Deadly boring. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Romance, Family Kim Min Joo is a spirited single mother who falls in love with Jung Do Hyung, the playboy president of a broadcasting company. Do Hyung had an arranged marriage with Jang Jin Hee in the past, but their divorced soon after his car accident in the U.S. He finds true love when he meets Min Joo. Plain soap opera that does not catch stars from the sky. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Historical, Romance, Drama Rujiroj is an only son of General Saenseneenarong, the owner of Ban Rujiroj, also known as "The Red Mansion." He lacked a mother since he was born. Later, when Ampa and her baby daughter, Araya moved in as his stepmother, he was very upset at them because he thought that this woman tricked his father to replace his mother and her baby stole attention from his father. So, Ruj asked his father to move to stay in the boarding school and went to study abroad after that. After he graduated, he came back to Thailand, but he refused to go home to face his stepmother and her daughter. So, he went out of town to work for a long time. After General and Ampa were dead and now Ruj became a skilled doctor, Ruj came back to the Red Mansion again. Many old people and servants in that house were very happy and excited with his return. But Araya worried because she knew well that Ruj hated her and her mother so much. Ruj didn't know himself that he fell in love with Araya since the first day he came back to the Red Mansion. He still felt vengeful against his stepmother and Araya, so all the time when they lived together in the Red Mansion, Ruj's manner towards Araya was coldness and unconcerned. And Araya feared that he would drive her out of this house someday. However, what Araya didn't know is that General gave the last words to his lawyer that he wanted Ruj to get married with Araya, but Ruj didn't care about his father's intention because he still doubted about Araya's mother. Primitive mess. Lakorns still remain the worst of all asian shows. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: - Fashion magazine art director Liang Shuang and her confidante Ou Lele are both beautiful and career-minded professionals who are pushing 30 but still single. Their worried parents threaten to arrange blind dates for them, so these "leftover ladies" must find a boyfriend quick! Shuang begins dating rich businessman Fu Yiping who has difficulty making commitments, while Lele starts seeing the handsome Gong Qiang who however is an insufferable control freak - both wrong guys for our heroines. Although badly bruised by these failed relationships, Shuang and Lele are tempted when they meet psychiatrist Li Hao and boxing coach Lu Cheng, respectively. Chinese drama are usually so stuffy, conservative, Confucian , greedy, cynical and showoff that there's nothing left but boredom . Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Drama, Family The story of domestic help who work for rich households. No Soon Geum is one of these housekeepers; despite the master-maid heirarchy, she's bold, fearless, and unafraid of doing hard work in order to support herself. As a child, Soon Geum had dreamt of living a grand life in a Cinderella story, complete with her own white knight, but that dream had faded as reality took over. However, she reaches a turning point in her life when she is hired as a maid for the rich and handsome Kang Gun Woo. Concept is only slightly better than usual, but it all does not pierce above averageness. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Historical, Comedy, Romance Princess Aeyawadee (Cherry) of Chiang Noi left to Siam in search for her brother to return to save the country from their uncle. Princess left with her skillful bodyguard, Aongdin (Por) and her personal humored maid, Tid. On this adventure, Princess was captured and sold to a brothel and became the most desirable girl there, known for her "fragrant body". This is also where she met her previously engaged fiancée, Prince Darb (Smart). Ward (Janie) is a slave girl who is very smart and ambitious. She secretly learned all the medicinal formula from her cruel master. After learning what Ward was doing, her master sold her to a brothel, where she met Princess and Aongdin. Her medicinal skill has become a key exit to their dilemma. Please follow the story and see how Princess and Ward pursue their goals and whether Prince Darb and Aongdin be able to be with the women they love. Slavery and selling to slavery makes it a typical lakorn... Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Romance, Fantasy Xiao Wei is a demon fox who was raised as a human girl by Xia Lao, along with his granddaughter Xia Bing. But when Xiao Wei unleashes her demon spirit and accidentally kills Xia Lao, she begins her life on the run. Xia Bing is devastated by the loss of her grandfather and swears she will track down Xiao Wei and get revenge. Meanwhile, Xiao Wei is taken in by general Wang Sheng and his wife Pei Rong. But soon, Pei Rong begins to suspect that Xiao Wei is a demon in disguise and requests help from Pang Yong, who has always had feelings for Pei Rong, to help her. As Pang Yong begins to investigate Xiao Wei, he meets up with Xia Bing, and the two try to expose Xiao Wei with each other’s help. Xiao Wei falls in love with Wang Sheng but is unable to use her strong powers to win her heart. Angry by this, Xiao Wei casts a “painted skin” spell on Pei Rong to make the world believe that she is a demon. Chinese remake of supernatural pseudo-historical revenge mess stretched from couple hours to eternity. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Romance, Drama Lin Chu Man is a fashion model who does not prejudice against a man for being short, fat, ugly and old, as long as he is rich. So when she discovers that her perfect man is only a hired body double for the real billionaire "Mr. Norman," and his true identity is a penniless music student in Paris named Cai Jia Hao, she immediately dumps him. As karma would have it, she loses her job to a younger model, her rich lover kicks her to the curb, and she finds out Cai Jia Hao will be her new roommate. Lin and Cai's unexpected living arrangement forces them to reconcile and to really get to know each other. As Lin becomes closer to Cai, despite her aversion to penniless men, her goal of nabbing Yan Kai Ming, a real estate tycoon, becomes less of a priority. And, she starts to question whether being happy equates to being rich. Fashion and poor vs rich themes are ones of my least favorite. Taiwanese approach is light, so it's at least bearable, but it's also immature. Overall Rating: 6/10 |
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 Tags: Romance The story involves Katori playing a successful advisor at a marriage consultation agency that aims to bring together people looking for partners. Kuroki plays one of the agency's clients, who is "so beautiful" that the manual he uses doesn't apply to her, while Fujiki plays a rich and handsome lawyer who is also a client. Katori starts to fall for Kuroki, but as a professional, he pairs her with another man. Star cast again with Kuroki Meisa leading. Setup sets by the end of episode two and next it's just habitual push and pull, developing sideways, so nothing really special with the ending same habitual and non-exciting, so can't give it a masterpiece status, sadly . Overall Rating: 6/10 |
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 Tags: - Zha Xi Ping Cuo is a thief who grew up near the Tibetan border in an area of China known as Shangri-La. With revenge in mind, he infiltrates Princess Ni Qin Zhuo Ma's tribe. Noname Chinese revenge fantasy... no, ty, pilot episode is horrible, too. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Drama Seven years ago, student Young Won took part in the "J Hair" contest as a model. Watching her hair change naturally and delicately, her heartbeat raced faster. Young Won dreamed of becoming a hair designer like the designer who did her hair at "J Hair." Since then, Young Won helps Jung Rae who is the owner of a lodge and works in a neighborhood hair shop. She becomes a popular hair designer in the neighborhood. Ho Yeol, who is Jung Rae's son, makes a chance with Young Won to go to the "J Hair" contest. There she meets master hair designer Eun Soo. Meanwhile, a chief designer of "J Hair," Min Hee is worried of losing her love and dream when her ex-lover Eun Soo comes back from England. The next day of the "J Hair" contest , Young Won goes back to "J Hair" to get her phone. She argues with Eun Soo, but she also sees the face she fell in love with seven years ago. Fashion is already a meager topic, but in Korean hands it's just flashy, zero essence. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Drama, Medical It has already been adapted as a television drama and a stage play in that country. On February 4, Shogakukan is publishing the book in Japan under the title "Good Life" Sorimachi plays the part of Daichi Sawamoto, a newspaper reporter who has always prioritized his work over his family. When his wife suddenly leaves him, he finally notices the love he has been receiving from his son. Just as he decides to answer back, it is discovered that his son has leukemia. Igawa plays Sawamoto's wife, Eikura plays a pediatrics specialist, and Ihara plays a doctor. So it's not just terminal condition, but it's also pre-elementary school child... and I'm not in the mood for all those tearjerkers. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Drama, Family, Supernatural Takagi Mamoru, a bachelor in his 40s, becomes the guardian of twins Kaoru and Yuki after the death of his friend. As they adjust to their new life, they are joined by a secret: Mook, a miniature Schnauzer who can speak. While Mook serves as a protector and mentor to the twins, he often criticizes Mamoru for his shortcomings as a guardian. Over time, Mamoru comes to accept Mook as the bond that holds their unconventional family together. So twins childcare with a talking dog... it's all just about cuteness, thus so-so. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Youth, Drama Akira Suzuki, the homeroom teacher of 2-A, spent three years after college contemplating problem-solving as a teacher. His ability to resolve issues earns the principal's trust and makes him popular among students. He also confides in his girlfriend Asami, a travel agency employee he met on a blind date, about school troubles. On one hand it's fresh and has distinctive children personalities, on the other hand it's just middle school. Figures of psychotic dependent on others opinions child as well as pervy physical education teacher were already seen before. Method itself is far from moral. Ending is trivial and not trustworthy. Minor masterpiece is quite right for it. Overall Rating: 7/10 |
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 Tags: Drama, Family, Medical The Hayashidas were a typical happy family of father, mother, two boys and two girls. Until it all changed suddenly with the untimely death of the father, Shinpei. While still mourning his passing, the children are hit by another bit of shocking news from their mother “Truth is… I'm pregnant.” The news of their mother's pregnancy at 51 sets into motion a new series of challenges for the four children, particularly for the eldest sister, Manami, who now becomes the family patriarch, forced to struggle with the pressures and responsibilities of “child rearing” and “family ties”, not to mention greater philosophical questions about the meaning of life. A moving, life-sized human drama.. There's no clear direction, and main theme looks more like propaganda of late pregnancy than anything meaningful. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Mystery, Romance In "Shitsuren Hoken," Furuta Arata (45) plays a gay Shinto priest nicknamed Torako, whose side business is selling "heartbreak insurance." Approved customers can pay 100 million yen for insurance against their love lives, receiving 10 times that amount in the event that they get rejected by the person they confess their love to. He and his team work to make the customers' love lives succeed, as long as they confess at the specified time. Shirota plays a young man named Ayumu, also nicknamed Luke. By day, he works as an associate ecology professor, but by night he works as one of the "insurance investigators," using psychological techniques to uncover the customers' feelings. Fukuda Saki (20) plays the college student Maruyama (nicknamed Maru), who works part-time as a shrine maiden at Torako's shrine, and also as an "insurance investigator" with Luke. Collection of mystery cases with first case being about hated calligraphy. That's three red flags which means strike out. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Life, Drama The Hongo family, living near the Tokyo Skytree, is struggling. Yuji, who gave up his music dreams, works in human resources but is too afraid to take risks. Amid a recession, he is tasked with firing older colleagues, only to be laid off himself. His wife, Sachiko, works multiple part-time jobs to support their two children. At rock bottom, their daughter Mako finds an abandoned pomeranian puppy, Skytree. This small act brings hope, and the family slowly begins to heal. ML played a lot of crazy scumbags, and I'm not fond of pets, so starting it with heavy heart. By the end of 2nd episode it's still a depressive mess that I don't want to follow. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Historical The arrival of Matthew Perry's Black Ships rudely awakens Japan from 300 years of isolation from the world. Men set their eyes beyond Japan and begin to demand change in society. The old clashes with the new, and thus begins an age of turmoil. Amidst this confusion, one group remains true to the old ways and risks their lives to preserve the traditional shogunate system. Led by their charismatic captain, Kondo Isami, the Shinsengumi uphold the code of honor of the samurai. Tales abound of the feats of men like Kondo, Hijikata Toshizo and Okita Soji. In general, the passion and glory of these men who lived during these turbulent times in Japanese history are explored. Story is the same as in Shinsengumi!, but actors are much less charismatic and memorable, so I see no point in this version. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance Law Yiu Wah, a former teacher turned cop, is assigned to go undercover at his old school, where triads have expanded their drug network. He meets enthusiastic new teacher Ho Miu Suet and realizes his past strictness with students. Suet invites bowling expert Koo Ka Lam to boost student confidence, but Wah discovers her triad ties and decides to investigate further. Meanwhile, Wah and Inspector Ching Man Lik become embroiled in a love triangle with Suet, leading to a complicated romance between them all. Undercover agent is not far from detective, and silly comedy leaves it zero chances with me. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Comedy, Romance, Drama Fa Lai Chu, a kind-hearted woman with the IQ of a 10-year-old, takes care of her younger sister and brother after their parents’ death. Though unable to provide financially, she fiercely protects them, often bringing home comedic troubles. Her determined sister, Fa Lai Ping, works with her ex, Luk Ho Cheong, to betray their company. Meanwhile, the chairman’s grandson, Tseung Yik, loses his job but is saved by Fa’s kindness. As Fa and Yik fall in love, the chairman opposes their relationship, forcing Yik to break up with Fa and return to his “normal” life. Mentally challenged MC, terminal condition, strange and unpleasant comedy make me stop early. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Drama Kaido published "Madonna Verde" in 2008 as a sequel to "Gene Waltz," continuing the story around the controversial issue of surrogate pregnancy in Japan. Kuninaka plays the doctor Rie Sonezaki, known as the "Cool Witch" by her colleagues in the obstetrics department. The character was previously played by Miho Kanno (33) in the movie version of "Gene Waltz." In "Madonna Verde," Rie and her husband (played by comedian Jin Katagiri) want to have a child, but Rie lost her uterus due to an earlier illness. She decides to ask her own mother Midori (Matsuzaka) to be the surrogate mother, and the three of them proceed with their plan in secret. However, a man named Maruyama (Kyozo Nagatsuka), who is in love with Midori, finds out about their plan. Later, a professor at Rie's university hospital (Hirotaro Honda) receives an accusatory letter, and Midori and Rie are desperately forced to pretend that the child in Midori's womb is her own. Well, I just can't find anything interesting here and not caring in the least. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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 Tags: Historical, Political A drama detailing the life of King Gwang Gae To the Great, who restored the glory of Goguryeo by wresting power back from Baekje, which had invaded Goguryeo prior to Gwang Gae To's birth and dominated East Asia under the rule of King Geun Cho Go. Ancient times caricature sageuk with pirouettes. Overall Rating: 5/10 |
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