Jason Wu Jing returns with a bang again. This time he’s the good hearted hired killer Bo who head over to a small island off Hong Kong where a triad leader is hiding. His job is to kill and return with the head. This is a revenge killing by his hirer.

Bo  easily kills and takes the head but he cannot get off the island when it’s closed down in a typhoon warning. Last ferry brought some hoods sent by the triad leader’s Japanese wife who was unable to contact her husband. They found the body and was instructed by the dead triad leader’s wife that the missing head must be recovered at all cost. As the gangsters comb the outlying village, Bo befriended a local policewoman, Holly,  when he helped her rescue a cat that had climbed up a tree. Later, Holly confronted 3 strangers in a small eatery on suspicion that they were wanted robbers and a fight ensured. Bo saved her and subdued the 3 robbers.

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After inspiring an anime series, hit TV dramas in Taiwan and Japan, and a blockbuster movie, Kamio Yoko’s immensely popular romance manga Hana Yori Dango comes to Korean television! KBS’s highly anticipated Boys Over Flowers spins the modern-day Cinderella tale of a poor, but spunky schoolgirl at an exclusive academy who attracts the interests of the four ultra-rich and ultra-handsome princes of the school known as F4. Ku Hye Sun from The Strongest Chil Woo and The King and I stars as the tough-cookie heroine of the drama. As for the male leads, meet Korea’s F4: breakout star Lee Min Ho from school dramas I Am Sam and Mackerel Run, idol heartthrob Kim Hyun Joong from boy band SS501, rising star Kim Bum (East of Eden), and Kim Jun of pop group T-max.

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This is the latest production by Zhang Ji Zhong the China maestro of wuxia pians, and completes Jin Yong’s Condor Trilogy which started with The Legend of the Condor Heroes, follwed by The Return of the Condor Heroes.

HSDS09  stars Deng Chao as Zhang Wuji, Ady An as Zhao Min, and Liu Jing as Zhao Zhirou. The story centres on the legendary set of weapons comprising of the Heaven Sword and the Dragon Sabre which were forged by Yang Guo and Huang Rong

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Five years after blockbuster drama Winter Sonata, Bae Yong Joon returns in the lavish historical fantasy The Legend (a.k.a. Four Gods). The Hallyu star portrays Korea’s legendary Gwanggaeto the Great, the 19th king of the Goguryeo Dynasty whose legacy of territorial expansion extended well beyond Manchuria. Created by the famous writer/director team behind 1995 blockbuster series Sandglass, this mythological historical fusion epic caused a major uproar in the media from the very start with its high-caliber cast that includes Moon So Ri (Oasis), Choi Min Soo (Sandglass), and Park Sang Won (Sandglass). The drama’s staggering $40 billion won production costs are rumored to have even exceeded the budget benchmark of sci-fi blockbuster D-War. After numerous postponements, The Legend finally exploded onto small screens nationwide on September 2007. With some critics and viewers placing the drama’s CG work in the same league as that of Hollywood film Lord of the Rings, The Legend boldly raised the bar of standards for Korean dramas. Bathed in mysterical splendor, the 24-episode series chronicles King Gwanggaeto’s entire life from his youth to his turmultous ascent to the throne and territorial conquests.

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This story takes place roughly 100 years before the Qin Shihuang Di launched his campaign to conquer all the other states during the Warring States Period of China’s history. The states during this period of constant conflicts were  Qin (?) Qi (?), Yan (?), Chu (?), Han (?), Zhao (?), and Wei (?). The Qin state at the start of the series was weak both militarily as well as economically although the drafted peasant soldiers displayed an unusually strong martial spirit.

Qin’s main antagonizer was the Wei state which was the strongest amongst all the states at that time and sought to subjugate the Qin state. Into this picture came a young scholar, Shang Yang (??) from Wei who was welcomed to Qin by Duke Xiao and was made his Chief Advisor. Shang Yang instituted wide ranging reforms from laws of the state to agricultural reforms. The basic tenant of his reforms follow that the Laws of the state are paramount over the people regardless of rank. He took land reforms to the extreme of taking land from the nobility and giving them to the peasants as private land.

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