According to tvN, official English title has been set to “Tale of the Nine Tailed” for their upcoming drama series Lee Dong-Wook & Jo Bo-Ah. The title does a slight wordplay on the Korean title which is “Gumihodyeon” (literally “Tale of The Nine-Tailed Fox”). Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: A nine-tailed fox settles down in the… Read more »
See list of winners and nominees at the just concluded 2020 Daejong Film Awards at AsianWiki. This year’s award ceremony was originally scheduled to air Febraury 25, 2020, but the Covid-19 caused the postponement to June 3, 2020. Not surprisingly, Bong Joon-Ho‘s “Parasite” was the night’s biggest winner with a total of 5 awards including… Read more »
Visual and short trailer added for movie “Mother” starring Masami Nagasawa and Daiken Okudaira. Movie is directed by Tatsushi Omori (“Tada’s Do-It-All House“). The short trailer features the classical piano piece Liebesträume by Franz Liszt. Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: Akiko (Masami Nagasawa) is a single mother and her son is Shuhei (Sho Gunji). Akiko casually… Read more »
First still images of Jang Seung-Jo and teaser trailer #1 added for JTBC drama series “Model Detective” (literal title) co-starring Son Hyun-Joo. In the drama series, Jang Seung-Jo plays Oh Ji-Hyeok. He is an elite detective and also wealthy, due to an inheritance. Because of his financial position, he is not swayed by money or… Read more »
Here’s 2 main posters for tvN drama series “Flower of Evil‘ starring Lee Joon-Gi and Moon Chae-Won. Captions on both of the posters states “Man who acted like he was in love … Woman who loved even danger.” Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: Cha Ji-Won (Moon Chae-Won) is a detective. She is married to Baek Hee-Sung… Read more »
Lee Seung-Gi is cast for one of the 2 lead roles in tvN drama series “Mouse.” Choi Jin-Hyuk has already received an offer for the other lead role and he is still considering the offer. The drama series is scripted by Choi Ran (“Black“) and asks the question if people are able to determine if a… Read more »
Haru is cast in movie “Hotel Royal.” The film is based on 2013 novel “Hotel Royal” by Shino Sakuragi. The novel won the 149th Naoki Prize. Masaharu Take (“100 Yen Love“) will direct the film. Story for the film will be set at a hotel in Hokkaido. Haru will play Masayo Tanaka. Her family owns the… Read more »
Character posters for tvN drama series “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” starring Kim Soo-Hyun and Seo Ye-Ji. There’s 4 posters in all, with a portrait and landscape poster of the couple together and individual posters of the two lead performers. Caption on Kim Soo-Hyun’s character poster states in Korean “When life is hard enough… Read more »
Mugi Kadowaki and Kiko Mizuhara are cast in movie “Tokyo Noble Girl.” The film is based on 2016 novel “Ano Ko wa Kizoku” by Mariko Yamauchi (“Japanese Girls Never Die“) and directed by Yukiko Sode (“Good Stripes“). The film revolves around two women who live completely different lives and their self-reliance. “Tokyo Noble Girl” will be released sometime next… Read more »
Early teaser poster and ep.1 air date set for MBC drama series “United Effort to Accomplish One Thing” (literal title) starring Kim Hye-Jun, Oh Na-Ra, and Han Soo-Hyun. Caption on the teaser poster states in Korean “All together in this (curse word) house.” The genre of the drama series black-comedy and mystery. A fierce battle… Read more »