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Jan 19, 2024 · From F4's Meteor Garden to Rainie Yang's Devil Beside You, here are the best classic Taiwanese dramas all millennials will remember.
- What is Love | 2012. What is Love is the ultimate drama of love. Unfortunately, people often compromise for temporary happiness thinking there is no perfection.
- Just You | 2013. The Just You popular Taiwanese drama is about office romance. It is a long debate whether it is appropriate to date with coworkers. Does it affect productivity and most importantly will create tension in case things don’t work out?
- Murphy’s Law of Love | 2015. Life is always exciting thanks to Murphy’s law; anything that goes wrong will go wrong. It seems to apply in every field of life, why wouldn’t it love as well?
- Fall in Love With Me | 2014. Handsome, funny and successful advertising genius Lu Tian Xing baffles the professional world when announces to take a break.
- Taiwan Crime Stories (2023) 台灣犯罪故事。This new series recently aired on Disney+ and was a highly anticipated 2023 release.
- Copycat Killer (2023) 模仿犯。Copycat Killer is a thriller/mystery series coming to Netflix on March 31, 2023.
- Small & Mighty (2022) 正義的算法。This 2022 drama series currently has 1 season on Disney+ and follows the story of craft lawyer Liu Lang as he defends a big corporation in a food safety case against a defense lawyer whom he despises.
- Women In Taipei (2022) 台北女子圖鑑。Women In Taipei is a dramatic series with 1 season, which originally aired in September 2022.
- Meteor Garden (流星花园）- 2001
- It Started with A Kiss (恶作剧之吻) – 2005
- Hana Kimi（花样少年少女）- 2006
- My Lucky Star (放羊的星星）- 2007
- Romantic Princess (公主小妹）- 2007
- Brown Sugar Macchiato (黑糖玛奇朵） – 2007
- Bull Fighting (斗牛，要不要) – 2007
- Fated to Love You (命中注定我爱你) – 2008
- Pretty Ugly (原来我不帅) – 2008
- Autumn’s Concerto（下一站幸福) – 2009
This one probably wins the award for the most remakes: it has a Japanese version, a Korean version, and even a recent China remake that’s on Netflix. The Taiwanese series, Meteor Garden, was the first adaptation of the manga, Boys Over Flowers, starring Barbie Hsu and then hottest boy band F4. Image credit: QQ Most of you would probably be familiar...
It Started With A Kisswas also adapted from a manga series, Itazura na Kiss, and was one of the most iconic and successful high school romance dramas back then. Ariel Lin and Joseph Cheng had such amazing chemistry that they went on to act in four consecutive dramas later on, including a sequel, They Kiss Again. Image credit: bilibili The story sta...
Hana Kimi is another nostalgia-filled drama that stars our then-favourite idols – Ella from S.H.E, Wu Chun and Jiro Wang from Fahrenheit as well as Danson Tang. The manga-based story is about a girl who goes to a boys’ school to meet her idol, Quan, a high jump athlete. Mega LOL at JJ Lin’s cameo in episodes six-eightImage credit: GTV八大俱乐部 The dram...
Jimmy Lin takes the role of the male lead, Zhong Tian Qi, in My Lucky Staras an F1 driver. In fact, he’s a professional racer IRL, which made him the perfect fit for this character. For the female lead, Xia Zhi Xing, we have Korean actress Yoo Ha Na who nailed the role of a kind-hearted girl who lives off being a jewellery con artist. It was recent...
Taiwan idol dramas are where even the loftiest of dreams come true – in Romantic Princess, the leading character Xiao Mai, portrayed by Angela Chang, wakes up one day to find out she’s the long-lost daughter of a crazy rich man and is the heiress of his empire. Image credit: hxcpp39 He has four candidates to be the successor of his business, two of...
Brown Sugar Macchiato was a collaboration between boy group Lollipop F and girl group Hey Girl. Looking back at it today, the entire drama was pretty ridiculous. The story centres around six long lost brothers who find out they share the same billionaire father, and that they can receive a huge inheritance if they live under one roof and attend the...
Hebe Tien’s first and very last acting appearance as a female lead in a drama was Bull Fighting, where she starred alongside Mike He. Bull fighting, in the Taiwanese context, actually means street basketball, which the show is about. Image credit: Sina Hebe plays the role of Yi Sheng Xue, a feisty girl who roots for the basketball team Trio, as the...
Fated To Love Youholds the record for highest average ratings in the history of Taiwan idol dramas. It was also nominated for six Golden Bell Awards – Taiwan’s equivalent of the Emmys – that year, and awarded the Best Television Series of 2008. Image credit: Netflix Starring Joe Chen as Chen Xin Yi and Ethan Juan as Ji Cun Xi, the drama starts with...
Only OG fans will know that homegrown icon JJ Lin also had his time as a male lead Xiao Zhuang in idol drama Pretty Ugly. Image credit: 163 Thinking that he was handsome all his life because people around him all called him shuai ge, Xiao Zhuang’s illusions are dashed when he gets harshly rejected by his crush – the reason? Him being too ugly. The ...
Autumn’s Concerto definitely cued the waterworks back then – I bet you cried buckets if you watched it from start to finish too. Starring Vanness Wu who portrays the role of a lawyer, Ren Guang Xi, from a prestigious family, and Ady An as the damsel in distress, Liang Mu Cheng, who tries to apply for college to escape from her stepfather who sexual...
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Feb 6, 2021 · What to Watch: Taiwanese Shows & Movies on Netflix Now. From the ICONIC 2005 Taiwanese series 王子變青蛙 ( The Prince Who Turns into a Frog) with its ambitious fulfillment of all classical elements (two exceptionally hot guys, collision-based amnesia) to the highest-grossing LGBTQ+ film in Taiwanese history, Your Name Engraved Herein, we ...
TV Series. Two strangers - Jie Xiu (Joseph Chang) and Lin Xiao Ru (Rainie Yang) - pop the question to their beaus, only to be rejected. Xiao Ru and Jie Xiu become fast friends and decide the only way to heal is get really, really drunk: thus ensues 24 hours of madness that ends with their elopement. Desperate to hide their wild night from their ...
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