Feb 10 2023

Teaser trailer 3 for tvN drama “Pandora: Beneath the Paradise”

Teaser trailer #3 added for tvN drama series “Pandora: Beneath the Paradise” starring Lee Ji-Ah & Lee Sang-Yoon. The third trailer has dialogue that states (0:01) Lee Sang-Yoon “What do you think if I run for president?,” (0:04) anonymous voice “Do you think it can be a war?,” (0:06) Lee Ji-Ah “Leave my husband alone. He doesn’t know anything about me,” (0:08) anonymous voice “I need to get rid of it,” (0:11) Lee Ji-Ah “I am the one who will deal with you. If you don’t want to die by me, leave him alone.” Below is a character poster of Lee Sang-Yoon as Pyo Jae-Hyun.

“Pandora: Beneath the Paradise”  first airs March 11, 2023 in South Korea

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Feb 10 2023

Kenta Kiritani cast in TV Asahi drama “Keiji to Kenji Tokidoki Hanji”

Kenta Kiritani is cast in TV Asahi drama series “Keiji to Kenji Tokidoki Hanji.” The drama series is a sequel to 2020 TV Asahi drama series “Police and Prosecutor.” Yasushi Fukuda, who wrote the original screenplay for “Police and Prosecutor,” will also write the screenplay for “Keiji to Kenji, Tokidoki Hanji.” In “Keiji to Kenji, Tokidoki Hanji,” Kenta Kiritani returns as Detective Gota Nakaido. He is a former PE teacher and now a detective out to catch criminals and get a promotion.

“Keiji to Kenji, Tokidoki Hanji” will first air April, 2023 in Japan (takes over TV Asahi’s Thursday 9PM time slot after “Outsider: Metropolitan Police Department“).

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Feb 9 2023

Park Eun-Bin cast in new drama “Diva of the Deserted Island”

Park Eun-Bin is cast in new drama series “Diva of the Deserted Island” (literal title). Drama series will be directed by Oh Choong-Hwan and scripted by Park Hye-Ryun. The duo previously worked together for 2017 SBS drama series “While You Were Sleeping” and 2020 tvN drama series “Start-Up.” For “Diva of the Deserted Island,” Park Eun-Bin will play Seo Mok-Ha. She dreams of becoming a singer and grew up on an island. She was then stranded on a deserted island for 15 years.

Filming is expected to start during the first half of this year, but air date and broadcast network has not yet been decided.

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Feb 9 2023

Trailer and posterfor movie “Side By Side”

Trailer and poster added for movie “Side By Side” starring Kentaro Sakaguchi & Asuka Saito. Movie is written and directed by Chihiro Ito (longtime screenwriter for movies directed by Isao Yukisada). Caption on the poster states “No one knows who you really are.” Meanwhile, the theme song for the movie has also been revealed as “Tonari” by Kai Kubota. That song also plays during the trailer.

“Side By Side” will be released April 14, 2023 in Japan.

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Feb 9 2023

Teaser trailer and posters for Netflix drama “The Glory Part 2”

Teaser trailer and posters added for Netflix drama series “The Glory Part 2” starring Song Hye-Kyo, Lee Do-Hyun, & Lim Ji-Yeon. The 8 episode sequel drama series follows “The Glory,” which was released December 30, 2022. Meanwhile, above and below are 8 teaser posters for the drama series. Each of the posters has Song Hye-Kyo as Moon Dong-Eun standing above a main character from the drama series. Captions for the posters states: Lee Do-Hyun’s “This man is my salvation,” Lim Ji-Yeon’s “Your soul that rejoiced in every moment of that,” Yum Hye-Ran‘s “It was good, because I have dream,”
Park Sung-Hoon‘s “The eyes smelling like fish,” Jung Sung-Il‘s “I don’t like saying I don’t know, but I don’t know yet,” Kim Hieora‘s “The hands that were mocking and destroying,” Cha Joo-Young‘s “The mouth that laughed out loud at an another’s unhappiness,” and Kim Gun-Woo‘s “The feet that was taking the lead in other’s suffering.”

“The Glory Part 2” will be available to stream March 10, 2023 on Netflix.

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Feb 8 2023

Lee Sung-Min, Yoo Yeon-Seok, and Lee Jung-Eun cast in TVING drama “Very Lucky Day”

Lee Sung-Min, Yoo Yeon-Seok, and Lee Jung-Eun are cast in TVING drama series “Very Lucky Day” (literal title). Drama series is based on on webcomic “Woonsoo Ojin Nal” by Aporia and directed by Pil Gam-Seong (“Hostage: Missing Celebrity“). The drama series will have Lee Sung-Min play a taxi driver who unknowingly drives a killer (Yoo Yeon-Seok) planning to flee the country.

“Very Lucky Day” will be available to stream sometime during the second half of this year in South Korea.

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Feb 8 2023

Trailer and poster for movie “Life of Mariko in Kabukicho”

Trailer and poster added for movie “Life of Mariko in Kabukicho” starring Sairi Itoh & Yutaka Takenouchi. The quirky film is set in the bar filled alleyways of Shinjuku Golden Gai in the Kabukicho entertainment district of Shinjuku, Tokyo. Sairi Itoh plays Mariko, who works as a bartender and also a private detective. She gets a job to find an alien. The movie’s theme song has also been announced as “Highball Boogie” by boy band Da-iCE That song is played in the trailer.

“Life of Mariko in Kabukicho” is now set for release June 30, 2023 in Japan.

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Feb 8 2023

Jang Hyuk & Jang Na-Ra cast in tvN drama “Family”

Jang Hyuk and Jang Na-Ra are cast in tvN drama series “Family.” Also cast in major supporting roles are Chae Jung-An and Kim Nam-Hee. “Family” will mark the 4th time Jang Hyuk and Jang Na-Ra will work together following “Bright Girl’s Success,” “You Are My Destiny,” and “Drama Festival 2014: Old Goodbye.” The drama series “Family” features a family-spy-comedy script with Jang Hyuk playing a secret agent, who holds an ordinary office job by day, and Jang Na-Ra playing his wife.

“Family” will first air April, 2023 in South Korea (taking over tvN’s Monday & Tuesday 9PM time slot after “Our Blooming Youth“).

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Feb 7 2023

Teaser trailer for SBS drama “Taxi Driver 2”

Teaser trailer added for SBS drama series “Taxi Driver 2” starring Lee Je-Hoon. The drama series is a sequel to 2021 SBS drama series “Taxi Driver.” The main cast from season 1 will return, except for Esom who played Prosecutor Kang Ha-Na. Voices in the teaser trailer states (0:08) Kim Eui-Sung “Someone hates us a lot,” (0:11) Lee Je-Hoon “They already know us,” (0:13) Kim Eui-Sung “Perfectly designed blind spot in the law,” (0:16) Pyo Ye-Jin “Who the hell created this monster?,” (0:21) Lee Je-Hoon “There’s something you can only take back if you remember it. I was able to reveal the truth to the world, because you remembered that. Because you remembered, I was able to come to you. You’ll pay a very high taxi fare.”

“Taxi Driver 2” first airs February 17, 2023 in South Korea.