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If these people are in a drama as lead I don't even bother watching it let me know your thoughts. what are actors and actresses you can't watch?

zhang ruonan

liu haocun

ju jingyi

kim go eun

kim dami

shin se kyung

ren jialun

lim ji yeon

park bo young

gong yoo

ju ji hoon

choi woo shik

cheng xiao

jisoo

dramas everyone seems to love but i didn't like them at all let me know your thoughts i ended up dropping all of these dramas because i'm not forcing myself to watch a drama I'm not enjoying it.

some day or one day
romance of tiger and rose
put your head on my shoulder
le coup de foudre
love 020
a love so beautiful
pursuit of jade
falling into your smile
begin again
goblin
crash landing on you
strong woman do bong soon
figh for my way
It's okay not be okay
something in the rain
healer
my id is gangnam beauty
our beloved summer

I previously made a post for drama recommendations and decided to check out a few of the suggestions on MDL. 2/3 I checked had some really critical and imo negative reviews. Does anyone else find this to be the case a lot of the time or was it just the dramas I was recommended? Do you guys use different sites for reviews or just watch them without looking at reviews?
*The reviews I looked at were for “A Date With the Future” and “You Are My Glory”
**I did watch YAMG but dropped it after ep 20

Does anyone know any chinese school life drama, where there is not that much of a heartache and misunderstanding between ml and fl, i really want to watch a peaceful love story..

hello! as the title suggests, i'm looking for a drama that has a character that yearns so intensely your heart aches along with them! i'm a yearner through and through and i want to be able to relate to another fellow lovergirl/boy 🥹🤍

i specifically love female gaze — regardless of who the yearner is, i want sufficient reciprocation from the girl's side and for her to see him in this female gaze-y way. what i mean by this is seeing him in rose blush and colours, wanting to know his vulnerable sides, and appreciating his entirety as a person and as a lover, seeing his strengths and warmth etc.

my favourite yearner in fiction is the male character sangyan from the chinese drama the first frost, why i love and relate to his yearning is because he loves a girl that is broken but silently loves her from the sidelines and never pushes her to open up when she's not ready. he loves her in a way she understands, and is able to accept, adapting his love language to fit hers, often showing love not in showy displays of affection but rather in subtle manners because he understands she feels uncomfortable with large displays of love as she's not accustomed to it yet. and he's more layered as a character than he presents imo despite the constant complaints from viewers that he is one dimensional and only written to be her lover, because the way he goes from wearing his heart on his sleeve and chasing her openly during their highschool days to closing up himself and sometimes sending her mixed signals in their adulthood after she hurt him is very intriguing and telling of how deep the hurt was to him. viewers complain that he never opens up to his friends regarding his heartbreak about the girl, but that's simply because his biggest vulnerability is tied to her. she is his biggest vulnerability in my opinion. during their secret rendezvous during highschool where he would often travel from nanwu to beiyu just to meet her at their little noodle shop, that's where she showed him colour he never saw with anyone else. she taught him a secret language he can't speak with anyone else. he never once encountered a soul as deep, and intriguing as hers and he felt there were similarities between them and he held each and every one of her words like sacred text. it was his first time falling in love.

i find his yearning relatable because he also gives a dialogue about what is pride in the name of love? and that struck a chord with me because pride is the one thing we often hold onto and upkeep to the point where we lose love. in dramas nowadays, characters are so busy being prideful and nonchalant and careful not to show the full extensity of their feelings, often "playing hard to get" because of the popular saying "the one who is more in love loses", and i absolutely detest and don't relate to such characters. so when sangyan talks about love never being about wins or losses and holding onto pride, i connected to him.

the female lead in the first frost, wen yifan, matches my criteria of seeing him in a female gaze-y type of way as she views him as the bright, radiant and warm sun, deserving of all the good in the world such that if he wants the stars, he deserves to have them plucked for him. she wants to partake in every of his vulnerable moments in life and be his "battery charger".

>tldr; i'm looking for a character driven romance centric drama, with a character (female lead/male lead, doesn't matter) that yearns beautifully and intensely for a broken character. and i want female gaze!!!

>i want the characters to drive the romance, so the characters have to be very fleshed out and i love when their thoughts are achingly relatable that it feels visceral. i often relate to INFJs!!

i love a good slow burn filled with intense yearning 😄 please shoot me recommendations!!

i don't need a textbook copy of the first frost, i'm just yapping about it in this post as it's my favourite piece of media — for it's depth and melancholic and slow nature. just recommend me anything that has beautiful yearning, fleshed out characters and female gaze!

Bonjour,

Je suis à la recherche d'un drama.

Une femme qui va dans une équipe de secouriste volontaire. Elle s'entraîne. Elle a des connaissance médicale.

Dans une scène pendant l'entraînement, les stagiaires doivent porter des bûches en bois.

Ce n'est pas :

Firework in my heart.

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Help me find this school romance drama 😭 (possibly Cdrama/Kdrama)

I watched this years ago and remember MANY scenes clearly but still can’t find it.

Plot/details I remember:

• Modern-day school/youth romance
• Two brothers move into a top-floor apartment building as new neighbors
• Older brother is cheerful/friendly
• Younger brother is cold, quiet, and initially ignores the female lead
• Neighboring family has two sisters
• Romance is between the older sister (female lead) and the cold younger brother
• Younger sister initially has a crush on him but moves on quickly and supports her sister later

Important scenes I clearly remember:

1. First meeting scene: The male lead gets tangled/stuck in clothes hanging across the connected balconies. The girls/family think he’s a thief and maybe even hit him before realizing he’s the new neighbor.
2. Rooftop confession: The leads confess on the rooftop of the apartment building by shouting loudly, and nearby neighbors hear them and start congratulating them. It was a funny/lighthearted scene.
3. During school holidays, the friend group visits a countryside place. There’s a poor village boy who becomes jealous after seeing their shoes.

Later, he lies to the female lead and tricks her into going into the forest alone. It starts raining and everyone panics when they realize she’s missing. The male lead desperately searches for her and finds/rescues her (I think he carries her on his back).

Other details:

• Connected balconies between apartments
• Very fluffy/lighthearted vibe
• Not childhood friends
• Likely from around 2018–2022
• Could be Chinese OR Korean, I genuinely don’t remember

Please help, this has been driving me insane 😭

I just watched Pursuit of Jade and loved it so much! My favorite scenes were those set Fan Changyu’s small village. I loved the rituals and scenes from daily life. I am looking for a recommendation for a series with a similar vibe, please! 🙏 #PursuitOfJade

Ok, so I watched this movie a few years ago on Viki, but I can't find it anymore because I'm guessing they phased it out/don't have the license for it anymore. The issue is that I can't remember the name of the movie, and because it's foreign, the name could change depending on the streaming site. I remember quite a bit of the plot, so I'm hoping someone can tell me what the name is and where I can watch it now.

Plot:

Chinese student female lead gets tests results that she failed her exams. She gets an email asking her to fly out to Japan to do a photoshoot, and she says yes because she needs the money.

She gets to Japan and is staying in a small-ish town where the main male lead owns an inn/onsen. The main guy’s assistant/best friend is giving weird vibes like he hates her but is also interested in her.

She learns that she is a doppelgänger for the ML’s dead (I think) fiancé. He wanted to shoot some photos with the FL as a way to remember his dead fiancé.

At one part, she is taking a bath in the outdoors onsen and sees a creature/lizard idk and she freaks out. The main guy comes running up and lifts her out and consoles her.

Another part is that they do the photoshoot, and she is wearing a red cape/coat that makes both the ML and his best friend really emotional because she looks like the dead fiancé. The FL and ML kiss on a bench near a lake after the photoshoot. ML has a dimple and mole near his mouth. I think his character's name was Takeshi. Eventually it is revealed that the ML’s bff was cheating with his fiancé. The FL leaves to go back to China, but ML runs to the train station to prevent her from leaving. 

I remember watching the trailer for the movie and being confused because the male lead only spoke Japanese, the female lead only spoke Chinese, and the captions/credits in the trailer were in Korean. It might be Korean produced.

Thanks in advance!

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​I see most of the cdramas where the fl often act like a kid. I understand its to make them cute or innocent but u can be mature, innocent and cute at the same time. No need to act like a child. Specially this cdrama called speed and love this fl acts so childish as if she was born yesterday like i really want to watch this but this trait distract me every time. When we were young or when i fly towards you r some of great dramas and i really love them but the fls acted there so childishly (no offence). I sometimes think is it some kind of fetish or such to see females as adult kids. Why not make the mls same? I get they r in high school but they r not 5 years old the way they act. They r teens. Not to mention they make some of the fls incredibly stupid to create more drama in the story. I know some people act this childish irl but its in every drama i come across. There r dramas with strong independent fls but they r small in numbers. Why the fls aren't directed to act their age?

So i just finished bloodhound 1 and 2 , trigger , mercy for none , i really liked all of them now i wanna watch something romcom hoping to get some good suggestion, already watched the popular ones like business proposal , king the land etc

Basically friends and stuff enjoying life, traveling (if possible), comedy, action (anything)

But with fun characters who share the same brain cell.

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i've never heard someone talk about this drama but goddamnit i remember rewatching it so many times when in the quarantine. this was my escape, my safe space. i was looking for the same feeling today and thought of reverting back to it and the opening scene just gave me this wave of nostalgia omg

Hey to all of my cdrama and kdrama fans, I’m looking for my next watch and I know the genres are vastly different but I wanted yalls opinion. So what’s your vote? I love both drama genres and I’m just looking to be entertained for the whole series.

My first one and boy did I fall in love with this. The writing is rich in it's story line, and such strong character development. The chemistry between Fan Changyu and Yan Zheng (aka Xie Zheng and Marquis Wu'an) is lovely! I was so moved watching these through 40 episodes.

I wish the last 2 episodes had been better scripted though. They were rushed especially in the final battle and story line of Qi Min was abrupt. Equally, the what if scenario towards the last few minutes was quite unnecessary. Regardless, this one was a great watch.

I'd love recommendations on stories like these. What are your suggestions?