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Word on the street is that Youku will air period C-drama Where the Mask Ends (嫁金钗 Jia Jin Zhai)next month in October 2026, so let’s get ready for hopefully good drama to come. Starring Tian Xi Wei in a dual female lead role as the headliner, it’s her chance to really breakout solely for her own acting and ability to …
Normally I’m all for anyone doing whatevers to one’s own body, be it hair, makeup, or even body modifications. But when one is an actress and makes a living onscreen then there is the delicate balance of body autonomy with impacting the visuals. That’s the case for K-actress Nana, who played the second female lead in r
This drama and casting came out of nowhere for me, either it was kept super low key or I simply missed the casting rumor phase. iQiyi announced today that upcoming period C-drama Echoes (Chinese title Chao Yu Jie 朝玉阶 or Facing the Jade Steps) will star Bai Lu with Chen Zhe Yuan in yet another roulette of popular stars
Hits are getting rarer in C-drama land following the footsteps of K-dramas starting a decade ago that a modern drama which does well absolutely makes sense to milk it for a sequel/follow up. Modern office place toxic romance C-drama The Early Spring has been confirmed for a next drama tentatively titled Midsummer (盛夏晴朗
Money must be tight in the C-ent streaming world lol, because this is just wild if not all that surprising. This week streaming platform Youku quietly re-uploaded all episodes of its hit 2016 romance C-drama Love O2O that starred Yang Yang and Zheng Shuang in then breakout roles, but this version has the female lead AI
This drama was clearly greenlit before the slow down in investor funding for C-dramas otherwise it seems like a really big gamble for what looks sillier then it should for the subject matter. Zhang Yun Long and Ju Jing Yi star in iQiyi xianxia C-drama Fated Master and Disciple (来战 Lai Zhan or Come Battle) where they pl
In the early days of K-drama watching there was a lot of fan casting and fan drama writing, the kind of what-ifs that viewers make up for their fave stars and fun genres. The Remarried Empress is like one of those fanfiction creations come to life, with the insane casting of four top stars as leads in Shin Mina, Lee …
So it’s a congrats to Zhang Ruo Nan and Wang Xing Yue to land a big budget period C-drama in this fallow year of C-drama productions. The two have been cast in Tencent produced big budget, probably S- level, C-drama Spring Banquet (春日宴 Chun Ri Yan). It’s a politics and romance story between a framed royal princess who
I love that K-dramas went here twenty years ago in Coffee Prince already, and now we get a CP worthy follow up where the cross-dressing female lead can pass for a very good looking flower boy metrosexual young man. tvN has on deck next month the K-drama Love in Disguise where Im Shi Wan plays a chaebol heir under suspi
Last month August Tencent air dropped The Road to Splendor, a A-budget period romance and politics C-drama starring Ding Yu Xi and Deng En Xi. Overall it slid under the radar, getting more strong reviews than bringing in viewership based on how well made it was. This one felt like the quality was there, the acting was
Over the weekend saw the premiere of new iQiyi period romance and revenge C-drama Spring of the Blade (一瓯春 Yi Ou Chun) adapted from the same name web novel. Starring Xu Kai and Zhou Ye, the drama is so far off to an average start. The highest it has hit is 8000 within the streaming portal so far and probably … Continue
All the C-drama buzz and chatter the last three weeks have been solely on Youku romance drama The Early Spring and boy was this a controversial watch with the differing viewer opinions/arguments on the leads romance almost as entertaining as the drama itself. It’s also rather apropos that the first modern hit C-drama a
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