Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX looking at chinese roman in the past week.
I thought this week was going to get better, I was wrong.
It's not as bad as last week, but barely,
let's start with two dramas that kind of had the same thing happening to it during this week.
They are both period dramas; they are both initially said to be airing on the 18th or the 19th
and they start to promote slowly, when the day comes, they got pulled off
and both dramas announced publicly that it is due to "technical problems".
You always know it's not because technical problems,
it means last moment before this drama can go live, it didn't get the green light
as for why you can only speculate, these two period dramas are first a has been
put up on the shelf for years hasn't aired period drama
that I honestly haven't heard about before called Sui Sui Qing Lian, English title Blooming Days
and and it's led by He Rundong and He Hongshan,
a kind of domestic Zhai Dou (宅斗） drama that is definitely
not the encouraged genre drama right now in China
that one was initially scheduled for May the 18th and when the day comes -"technical problem",
The other one just happened a few hours before I sat down,
which is Ning An Ru Meng, I did say about it had a projected airing day on the 18th.
And during this week, it pretty much has been talked about that it's gonna be like that.
Then on the 19th, which is today in China,
it started in the morning with a banner on iqiyi's website saying
it's going live today. Then when the evening comes, when it's supposed to be airing,
didn't happen, and you get announcement.
They may air very soon, a couple of days later when something gets sorted out that it can come out
or never who knows.
All we can do as audiences is just sit and wait,
Then we do have two dramas that have been scheduled.
One should go live on the 20th, the other one on the 21st.
First one going on 520 I love you day in china
is a contemporary drama called Zheng Hao Yu Jian Ni,
English title Hi, Producer, yesterday during my live stream,
somebody did mention this drama.
It's a Yu Zhwnf contemporary drama and it does feature Zhang Nan which is one
of his hottest female lead actress right now.
Then it also features Guo Xiaodong, Li Xiaoran, Sun Yihan
I think most of my audiences have watched the SYH and ZN drama, the two girls leading drama
as the title suggests, it is about a group of people who work for a production
of a television or web series program, behind the scene story of this program and people involved.
It is to do with forbidden city to do with history,
artifacts, all the knowledge type of program which iqiyi actually does have one
about Gu Gong, Forbidden City, so as this video goes out,
this drama should have been online unless weird things happen to it again.
Then one day after that on the coming sunday on the 21st,
we have a contemporary drama going live on Mango tv called Qing Cheng Wei Wo de Jia Ren
Please be My Family, led by Zheng Qiuhong and Xie Binbin
And it's a story about a woman and a man.
They're both Jiu Ling Hou (九零后）, which means they were born after 1990s.
And as single parent, both have a kid and with a previous relationship, whatever.
And then they come together and somehow ended up living together that type of story.
I'll see if this drama is in any way worth watching.
And if it is i'll let you know
then we have quite a few trailers on dramas that either have actually happened during last week,
but I didn't have time to talk about them or in this week.
So we're just gonna talk about them one by one
in no particular order, first we have a contemporary drama called Xiao Fu QI, As Husband As Wife.
I believe i've mentioned about this drama recently and this drama has released its official trailer
and it's led by Guo Jingfei and Yin Tao, both very good actors.
If the script is good, it probably is a good domestic contemporary drama.
Then there's yet another iqiyi drama, contemporary as well called Qing He Zhe Yang De Wo Lian Ai Ba
English title Men In Love
And it's led by Hu Yitian and Liang Jie, just so you know there is a contemporary drama
led by these two people, as if that's not enough,
iqiyi decided to put out further more news on further more dramas it owns.
And this is a last century story but not so ancient,
which looks really interesting and I haven't heard about this project.
I love the set of posters and the title and the cast.
I have a good feeling about this project may be really, really,really interesting.
Gou Sheng Kuai Pao, English title is A |Soldier's Story.
Gou Sheng,dog left over, is a type of very very cheap and low name
that traditionally in countryside and villages particularly
that parents would love to name their kids after,
because there is a traditional belief in chinese folk culture that if you name your kids,
dog, cat, poop,
it would be easier for them to grow up healthy, strong.
So Gou Sheng is a very, very such name
and Kuai Pao means come on, run!, run away! escape!
So it's like Gou Sheng's being chased and people are saying come on run run away.
It looks like it is a Min Guo setting drama, but it's based on very village, very poor people's living condition.
You can see their costumes are like that.
And because the English title is A Soldier's Story,
you can almost guess what it may be.
Because during the Min Guo Republic of China time,
many warlords were fighting against each other plus different parties,
political powers re afighting plus china was invaded by Japan for a long time.
So a lot of different powers and armies are at battles on this land,
and often people get drafted by different powers.
And they kept getting pulled away.
And there were a lot of play and literature work of that time that talks about this thing.
It's pretty dark, but almost like black comedy.
If you've watched the Jiang Wen film many years ago,
Gui Zi Lai Le, it has that vibe
looks like a really interesting project,
a black comedy of that time that's actually gonna focus on the bottom of the society people.
Unlike most of the Min Guo drama these days are all about ladies and in Qi Pao
And the other thing that makes it looks really good is it features proper actors
not traffic actors, Jiang Long is the male lead and he's been doing really well in recent years
in a lot of comedy shows and he's one of those actors I consider to be a serious proper actor
than any popularity actor, the it also features queen level actress such as Qin Hailu
Another super interesting project these days can only happen on iqiyi,
you just cannot see Tencent Youku and Mango ever making this type of project
a another thing that i'll be looking forward to
then we have a couple of licenses that have happened during this week,
meaning those dramas are ready to air.
First one is the second season of Young Blood, Da Song Shao Nian Zhi
Whenever Mango decides to put it out, it will put it out.
And I just don't see why it doesn't happen before summer or at least during summer.
The other one that got license is called Huan Yan
which i've mentioned brief briefly and I think they've previously released
a short trailer that looks really Sexy.
English title is Fearless Blood and it's an ensemble drama of I think it has an element of espionage,
but also an element of black comedy mixed together and it's led by a crazy cast,
Dong Zijian, Zhang Yi, Zhang Luyi, Wu Xiaolinag, Liao Fan, TIan Yu, Tong Liya, Ren Min, Su Xiaotong
would have to check out when it goes live and see if it's worth watching type of drama
moving on, yeah we have more, a lot more, talking about dramas that have wrapped during this week.
First is the Xiang Si Ling, Everlasting Longing,
a period drama that i've talked about previously led by Angelababy and Song Weilong
Yang Ying, and Song Weilong
They've released their wrapping video, a little bit footage of the drama and the vibes of it
and the looks of the characters and what type of drama it may be.
What I can tell just from the moving picture of this drama is
really these two shouldn't be in the acting world.
They should just stay as photograph models.
They be perfect for all magazine covers. They look great, right?
In photos, but not in moving picture.
Neither of them can act and it has been proven time and time again.
And when you have both of them who are pretty but cannot act in a pair of drama.
Wow, If it succeeded in any way that will be the biggest miracle of 2023 chinese dramaland
I mean if it airs this year, if it airs next year, it will be the miracle of next year.
When I looked at that video, I was just so shocked about how wooden both of them look like even in trailers like this,
supposedly you would edit the good part, okay good luck to this production.
Next one that got wrapped during this week is a contempoarry drama.
I've mentioned quite a bit time ago that was shooting when they started
Ru Guo Ben Pao Shi Wo de Su Ming, Born to Run
it features a pair of sisters, the Zhong Chuxi, Yang Chaoyue drama.
It's also an iqiyi drama and they've finished shooting
the the other one that also wrapped during this week is a Tencent drama.
Finally we hear Tencent, Zhe Yao, Prisoner of Beauty.
I've talked about this project when they started.
It's a Liu Yuning and Song Zuer led period drama also featuring He Hongshan
So this drama also released a wrapping video,
also pretty much like the Everlasting Longing showing you the characters,
the way they filmed it and couple of shots from the actual drama, what it may feel like
during the shooting of this drama, a couple of Song Zuer's styling have come out on internet
and got really popular and really liked.
She is really good looking.
That's one thing probably people would be looking forward to when this drama airs.
The other thing is I hope this drama can use their own voices because I think for the 3 leading roles
they can all do that pretty well themselves.
Then we have to talk about a couple of drums have started shooting during this and last week
First is a drama called Zong Ran, don't think it has an english title yet
and it is contemporary drama, Mango television drama led by Liang Jie and Guo Junchen
and the setup will remind you of a Korean drama Signal
which is two people living at two time 10 years apart getting a
cell phone on a meteor shower night and somehow they can talk to each other
because because of that, they start to manipulate timeline and change things.
And they realized at the end that to get out of the problem they are in
they have to kind of make a big sacrifice.
Probably it wouldn't be a criminal case focused drama like Signal.
The main characters are policemen and police woman,
this didn't say it has anything to do with criminal cases.
It may just be 2 civilians, but the other ideas about two people living a decade apart is
not unusual in dramaland, for this type of drama, right?
That always depends on how good the script is.
The other drama that has started shooting is the second season of Dou Luo Continent
and this time they changed the lead actors to Zhang Yuxi and Zhou Yiran
It would also feature people such as Chen Muchi from Starry Love and Kong Xuer, she is an idol,
I believe turned actress.
I do have to say ZYX really is very pretty and her studying does look very close to
what people would hope her role if played by a real person will look like compared to animation.
So let's see how this one is gonna turn out.
Also a period drama started shooting during this week.
We have very little news on exactly what it is,
but the title is Jin Xiu An Ning, English title unknown yet
and it's led by Zhang Wanyi and Ren Min
As for more information on that project,
we probably will find out more about it as time goes on.
We have another drama started shooting,
I know so many, another period drama,
but this time it's a Youku drama, it's led by Hou Minghao,
his drama Hu Xin, Back from the Brink is airing right now
the other leads are He Yu, Hu Lianxin,
So these three are pretty interesting young actors good looking people and He Yu
often really gets talked about, I think during the airing of oh no here comes trouble.
A lot of people I think at least on the weibo
and other social media platforms I noticed would all say He Yu and Zeng Jinghua look so much alike,
I can see the resemblance for sure and i'm like just Zeng JInghua has a face that just
like he can look like ten different people , that's an actors face, you know, lucky him anyway.
So this drama is called Shao Nian Bai Ma Zui Chun Feng, doesn't have an english title yet.
It's a period probably Wu Xia drama just because of the title
and also just when I look at the material that put out so far,
it definitely will be heavy on fighting scenes and horse riding and all that.
I also think the female lead actress, there are special features already online about
she being trained before they started shooting for all the wire work and fighting sequences.
So if that's the case, great! Hope they fight well.
And in terms of what the title means,
chinese meaning is youth white horse and getting drunk in the spring wind.
Almost that's Wu Xia novel title feeling 100%
fingers crossed it can be a good drama,
but then it's done by the platform YouKu
Cautiously super cautiously almost desperately like thinking about it may not work out Optimistic
as if that's not enough, we have yet another project that has started shooting during this week
Ta He Ta De Qun Dao, English title Her Islands
it's another female characters focused drama.
You can tell in the title and it's led by mostly women.
And they're all very well known actresses,
including Ma Sichun, Li Xiaoran, Sun Qian, Xu Fan, Song Chunli
just by looking at the cast in the title,
it definitely is gonna be about multiple generation age range women's story.
In a contemporary world,
yeah i've covered everything I think that I have collected.
Can you give me a break Chinese dramaland?
I'm just saying it's a little bit overwhelming, overwhelming
and then also just so many iqiyi stuff,
but then iqiyi kind of is in a sticky place because they're they're getting
the dramas you know postponed thing.
And iqiyi is a platform that does have a little bit complicated,
let's say set up and structure and also dealings with powers and monies outside of mainland China
Yeah. If you see like what projects they have done,
you can you kind of see like you know it can do certain projects
that other problems just never did and would do
Could that be something that's going on in the background
that's causing certain things happening and all speculation
But politics is always important.
And it's in everything, unfortunately, in this world.
okay so for this platform,
they had actually already had a couple of red tape and problematic things in the past
of their shows and people who are you know in charge of those shows,
hope they can get out of a sticky situation soon,
because I do feel they still have the best diversity of projects and interesting things going on.
And really, you can tell it's led by a team of people who actually care about content making.
And their interest are actually primarily in making interesting content
instead of other things.
So I honestly do hope that most of the interesting projects i've talked about last week and this week,
that are theirs can come out smoothly and safely.
oh and just because you worked at the live stream yesterday,
I did have a couple of pretty cute things of oh no, here comes trouble in my shop now.
So that should conclude this week's also ridiculous amount of Information on Chinese dramaland video.
Thank you for watching AvenueX i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.