Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week
before we talk about dramas
a quick catch up news of last week.
Because it literally happened right after I filmed my last week's video,
the case of Kris Wu has started on june the 12th in court.
It's been close to a year because he was incarcerated
at the end of July last year
due to privacy protections.
It's not gonna be a public hearing in anyway, but at the end of it,
there's definitely gonna be a public announcement.
Usually this type of court proceeding takes
maximum a couple of months,
usually within 1 month time,
we could very well see the end of the thing next month, July
that will make it almost exactly a year.
Now let's talk about dramas.
We have quite a lot of things
first as usual dramas that have gone live
and we have two on the same day june the 15th.
One is the Hui Lang Ting that I talked about consecutively for 2 weeks
last week I said there's a trailer
it's likely to come out and immediately
it came out
and it's only 12 episodes
they've already aired at the moment.
I'm making this video 4 episodes.
I've watched 3 episodes already and i'm totally baffled by the drama.
The thing is, if you don't know it's a thriller,
you came in blind,
you would not have realized it's thriller at all
so far. I'm very, very worried about this drama.
And because it's so short,
if you fail in 2 episode,
you kind of fail the whole thing.
But we shall see as it finishes everything,
whether it's anything worth talking about
about on the same day on Mango television,
a drama also went live.
It's also a contemporary drama.
It's called Yu Jian Cui Can de Ni
Hello, my shining love,
and it's led by Jin Han and Chen Qiaoen, two bosses
of their own company coming together fall in love.
It's mango television drama.
So if you watch a lot of mango television drama,
you kind of can already guess what type of drama it would be.
Then we have a couple of dramas that have being
scheduled to go live very soon chronologically.
first on june the 18th a drama should have gone life on
iqiyi and it's a sitcom
which we don't get that much now these days in chinese dramaland
Po Shi Jing Ying, very cute name
po shi (er) is the word in chinese that means the type of messy,
fussy stuff that happens that you just don't wanna deal with
in life or in work,
but they happen all the time.
English title is the The Lord or Losers
It kind of explains what it means
and it's gonna be led by Li jiahang
do you still remember him?
He's actually a really good actor,
but I don't know ever since he started his career,
he kind of never really got the biggest break that you hope for.
I still really like him and I probably will go
and check out see if it's a qualified sitcom,
it talks about a guy who got promoted to become
a manager of a department in their company,
but that department is called po shi(er) bu
So dealing with fussy and messy things department
and with that promotion,
he's supposed to take care (of) all the crappy stuff
that the company needs to take care of.
You can see like where the comedy may come from with that setup.
A couple of days later on the 22nd,
a crime drama should go live called Tong Tian Ta
And that's the exact chinese name for the
religious and folklore and mythological thing.
Babel
And it's gonna be led by Qin Junjie and Deng Jiajia
So DJJ would have two dramas.
She leads airing at the same time.
That's roughly the same type of drama,
but this is more focused on police and crime investigation.
And QIn Junjie plays a team leader of a crime
investigation division in a police station.
That's pretty much the same job as Du Cheng has.
In Under the Skin
playing "Dui Zhang" team leader.
I do pray.
This could be a good script
because recently I've watched another actor I really like
in a crime drama,
that's just ~~~%^%&^&
let's hope Qin Junjie luckier.
He hasn't been around for a while regardless of everything else.
He's a pretty solid actor.
I've liked his roles in a couple of older dramas,
so I do hope this time as a contemporary drama
and using his own voice crime drama,
it can be something that makes my june that much more interesting.
Then 2 days after that on the 24th,
the drama final is gonna go live which is the period drama,
the comedy that i've talked about multiple times.
Wo Jiao liu JIn Feng
The legendary life of the Queen Lau
led by La Mu Yang Zi and Li Hongyi
based on the trailer.
It definitely is a comedy
and La Mu Yang Zi is really great for comedy.
So let's hope it's extra bit fun.
that we can have,
although I don't like it's color grading,
they could go for dark or more contrasty,
richer saturation.
And I don't understand what is the weird aesthetics.
We have these days with a lot of period idol-ish drama.
That everything is so low contrast,
pinkish and way too much light,
then we have a stream of trailers that has been released by iqiyi
because these dramas are lined up to go live within the Ju Chang
which is the category of dramas.
Like we had Mi Wu Ju Chang, Light On
So this is called Lian Lian Ju Chang
literally means love love ju chang
They can't find another name for it
that we are likely to see soon.
So i'm gonna just go through the list of what they've done this week.
First, contemporary drama called Wo de Fan Pai Nan You
English title Mr. Bad
led by Shen Yue and Chen Zheyuan
This is a story about a female author who writes novels.
And in her novel,
there is an anti hero guy who just somehow came out of the book
she has to deal with him and definitely has to fall in love with him.
Book time should be period.
Because if you look at the poster,
it's the guy in period clothing
does remind you of Qin Ai de Huo Zu ZOng a little bit.
That's also led by Chen Zheyuan also on iqiyi,
couple of years ago where he is a time traveler from ancient time to now.
this time he's an ancient person in book travel to contemporary time.
Let's see this time with this similar setup,
whether he could make it even better than before.
Then there is a drama also releasing a trailer
in the LLJC from iqiyi called Ai Qing Ying Gai You de Yang Zi
I've talked about this before
a contemporary romantic drama Love the Way You Are
That's led by Yang Ying, Angelababy and Lai Guanlin（it just went live as I'm making this video actually)
And then there's another one called Cang Lan Jue
I've talked about this multiple times period drama
fantasy based on ip led by Yu Shuxin and Wang Hedi
This drama has also released another trailer and
english title now is Love Between Fairy and Devil.
It's extremely plain and simple
And it actually is
because she is a orchid flower fairy, and he is like a bad bad bad guy.
That's what it's supposed to be.
And I think it's definitely gonna involve multiple lifetimes.
I like YSX
I just hope Wang hedi doesn't destroy it.
Miss the Dragon really just created some trauma for me.
Let's hope this time at least
don't get me out of the story.
Also the drama lined up is the Chao Shi Kong Luo Man Shi
See you again,
a min guo crossing contemporary time
time travel love story led by Hu Yitian and Chen Yuqi
They've also released a trailer and it's a more conceptual one.
It's the guy in a church waiting for the girl to come and marry her,
given that The Night Wanderer,
which is led by Ni Ni and Deng Lun
is not gonna come out anytime soon.
If iqiyi wanna rescue that drama,
they would have to face swap Deng Lun now or
re shoot every scene that has him in it
which it's gonna be painful to do.
If iqiyi has the money to do it,
it's still gonna take a long time for post production
to be able to get the whole thing sort out.
So we may very well see this similar
Min Guo crossing contemporary time.
One person is in that time,
one person in this time.
And also I think the girl is in contemporary time and the guy is in1920s 30s.
We probably see this one before.
This is what we have these days in chinese dramaland
everywhere is land mine.
So these are the ones from Lian Lian Ju Chang
from iqiyi that they are lined up
and there's more stuff with dramas at other stages.
First there's a drama that has started officially promoting.
I think they're still making it.
I haven't heard about it before,
but sounds very interesting and it's called Lan Gui Xi Shi
A period drama set in Song Dynasty
about a whole family with women
father is out of the picture
For what reason we do not know,
but there's a mom and there are four daughters
features very interesting actresses,
also including La Mu Yang Zi
So she's one of the daughters,
I think the second or the third one in the family
and the mother is gonna be played by Liu Lin
I love this actress,
she's one of the best she literally can play anything.
This drama released its first set of posters and the costume look.
Bang on,
I think one of the most Song looking,
costume drama set in Song dynasty i've seen recently,
particularly because it's focused on commoner, they're just commoners.
So it's not court like Qing Ping Yue (senerade of peaceful joy)
that has well researched official attires of both gender,
this drama is focused on daily.
Weariungs of the Song dynasty women.
At least in the poster,
everything looks pretty well research i'm
very surprised even down to hairstyle,
I highly highly hope as the drama actually turns out to
be a really good display of the Song dynasty aesthetics and looks
fingers crossed.
Then we have a couple of things that started shooting during this week.
Number one Chang Feng Du
Don't think it has a proper english title yet
we shall wait and see
this drama has gone through a couple of uh.
Controversial things before it even announced its official casting
reason being one of the actors that was casted Initially,
as one of the main supporting like the
second lead or the special lead got swapped.
Right now with the casting
it's gonna be led by Bai Jingting and Song Yi
Anybody wanna see these 2 as a pair and in period costumes?
I do, I know I do.
So i'm excited for it.
And this story is a human story of a woman get married into a,
much more richer poweful family and learning how to find her
bearing in that family and in the process making the husband
fall in love and recognize that she has great values
that type of domestic period drama setting story,
imagine that dynamics between BJT and SY right?
Initially he doesn't care about her
you're a gold digger,
you married into his family for the money and you know I don't care
until later she becomes the master of the household.
This drama also features a couple of other leads.
One of them is now Liu Xueyi
which made a lot of people very happy.
Previously.
It's a different actor who's got very bad controversy
surrounding certain things that happened a couple of years ago,
even till today,
there's no clear verdict.
about what really happened
I'm not gonna say too much about it because I have
no idea actually what is the truth behind it,
but let's just say he doesn't have the best reputation out there right now.
And for a production,
he is like time bomb and liability.
So there were a lot of people shouting under this drama' s officials of account,
saying swap this actor out,
swap this actor out,
and finally they got it.
They literally swapped this guy for liu xue yi.
Let's hope this drama can safely get made safely air.
These days you know
when you can do these two things you already win.
Then during this week another drama started shooting
and it should make a lot of people of my channel happy
which is it is the Zhao Liying drama
the legend of Shen Li
the thing that is cool about it.
If you look at current makeup of the main creatives
is Zhao Liying is actually the Jian Zhi of this drama
person who is watching over the creatives.
She is gonna be the person at the helm of deciding creative things.
Usually this position is filled by by people who are very experienced.
For example, you've been a director of a lot of productions
and one drama or one film asks you to come on board
to watch over the creative overall.
That's what Jian Zhi is
So she is acting as the Jian Zhi
I think that will mean she can make main creative decisions on things.
And she wouldn't have the problem with crappy
scripts that she has no choice but to act.
So let's hope with that we can have at least a level of guaranteed quality.
Of this story.
and Lin gengxin please work out more before you start shooting.
Finally to wrap up there's a film that started shooting
during this week which is called Qun Xing Shan Yao de Ye Wan
Don't think it has an official english title yet.
That's a contemporary one about Hunan people and mostly about
a couple of different professional people working at night.
It's about the nightlife.
Therefore, that's the title which literally means
the night where many stars shine.
and this film has started shooting,
it's focused on Chang Sha
the capital of the province of Hunan,
it's gonna be led by Zhang Jingyi and Yin Fang
Both actors are actually hunan province people born there in different cities,
not really in changsha,
but they are from hunan.
So can we actually expect a little bit dialect?
Because recently we've seen a couple of films in china if it's
super location based like clearly it's a shanghai story,
clearly it's a wuhan story or whatever
they're gonna use actors from that region speaking dialect,
which I am all for it.
It just makes it so much more believable
and the Jian Zhi
you know, the watching over production person of this film is Chen Kexin
very well known director who's directed many well known productions.
So we've got a lot of things going on.
A lot of dramas airing, will air, trailers
looking forward to a super super busy chinese dramaland
summer holiday slot
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