Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week
and let's get writing to it, as this video goes out on April the 15th,
a drama should have gone live on both cctv eight salad television and web platform iqiyi
and that is the contemporary drama Long Cheng, Take Us Home
led by Bai Yu, Ma Yili, and if you've already discovered my channel by summer 2018,
you know how funny this is that Bai yu is leading a drama that's called Long Cheng
which is the story that the BL drama guardian is set in
but they're not related. It just happens to have the title, it's like fate.
And this is a contemporary drama about a family of brothers and sisters
who have very dramatic and complicated relationship.
If you are looking for very light stuff, then this may not be the best drama,
if you like stuff that are a bit heightened, this drama potentially can be a really good one.
Then i'm gonna mention a couple of dramas i've mentioned recently
that has either wrapped or started shooting,
because this week they've put out official materials.
Last week I said the two dramas, 199love, and Shen Yin both have wrapped
Shen Yin (The Last Immortal) this week have put out official new posters and then a wrap video.
So you can have a first glimpse and a feel for what this drama may look like.
Also, the week before last week I think
I mentioned that Strange tales of Tang Dynasty second season have started production,
this week they've officially started shooting and released their opening ceremony photos
and you'll see everyone from the first season coming back,
including the actor who played Dugu
one of the eight cases featured in the first season's leading character.
At the end of season one, you see him taking the horse
that the melody character gave him as a present and riding off
to take exams in the capital city, and in the second season the actor's coming back.
So we are likely to see that our main characters meeting him again.
Then we have a drama that has released its trailer during this week.
It hasn't said yet when it's gonna go live, but likely very soon
it's gonna be on Mango television, It's a contemporary drama called Wu Mian Zhi Jing,
English title, Desire Catcher.
I think i've mentioned it once before quite a while ago.
It's led by Zheng Yecheng and Xin Yunlai
and it's a crime story, one of our lead character is a psychiatrist
who is specialized in hypnotizing, and the other one is a policeman
and they're gonna go on the journey of solving cases together
I mean two male leads police drama the last time I had a really satisfying one
was Under the Skin and yeah I need another dosage basically now.
And since we've just mentioned Under the Skin, during this week, a new drama,
a police drama also led by JIn Shijia has started shooting
and he's paired up this time with Dilraba
so not man man but man woma, but still very interesting cause if you look at the synopsis,
it's rather similar. This drama is called Li Jian Mei Gui
literally meaning sharp sword rose
do not know yet how the official english title is gonna go,
but basically in a story, our female character played by Dilraba
policewoman who had an ex boyfriend who dies as an anti drug police.
And there's a lot of mystery surrounding the death of the person.
She also wants to be an anti drug police,
but then she ended up in the special division of finding missing kids
and then paired up with Jin Shijia's role
and then they go on solving all kinds of cases about trafficking kids, which is a big problem in china.
And in the process typically, while solving all the cases
getting closer to her goal of finding out what happened to her ex
get the similar structure, vibe-ish thing? From Under the Skin
all the best to this drama, I can't wait to see its finished product,
then we also have other dramas that have started shooting during this week.
The first one is yet another ZWYG Daylight Entertainment production drama
that i've mentioned a couple of weeks ago in the
collection of dramas that are on their list to be made.
and this is the one that's called Jian Nan de Zhi Zao, to do with heavy industry.
I'm pretty sure it's about aviation, but i'm not hundred percent sure
and the english title is Created in China, and our male lead this time is Zhang Xincheng.
He definitely has signed up with ZWYG after his role in Xian Wei Da Yuan, Bright Future
He gets another one and this time he's the first credited actor, definitive leading actor,
mhm cool~ Female lead role would be Song Zuer, i'm very happy.
Both are very talented and top notch actor and actresses within their age group
who are currently working in china and all the best.
Also we have another drama that has started shooting this week,
people have been very busy, called Zhi Yi Jiu Jiu Jiu Nian De Zi JI, To Myself in 1999
which is very accurate translation,
not to be mixed with the just wrapped Yang Zi led 199 Love,
just looking at the title you know that it's a type of youth growing up and looking back in time,
contemporary drama and the leading actors are Li Yunrui and Huangyang Tian Tian
If you've watched Love like a galaxy,
the gentleman role in Galaxy,
and then Huangyang Tian Tian is a very young actress.
She used to play the young version of female leads of many dramas you've seen in the past 5 years,
and you probably are already very familiar with her face.
You just do not quite know who she is, well now, you Know
she has a very unusual name, Huangyang Tian Tian, Huang Yang.
So likely those are her parents' surname added together.
I think last year she had a set of photos. If I can still find them.
I'll put them up here where she dresses in han fu,
and oh she's so pretty, and she signed to Jia Xing (Jaywalk)
Have complicated feelings about that.
you know one thing is good luck, they probably will promote her very well.
On the other hand, Jia Xing ideas about what are good projects are
Never... So..... Right
Anyway, that drama has started shooting and it's also going to feature
some very well known actors playing probably their parents such as Dong Jie, Ni Hongjie,
So this drama will be very pretty at least all the women featured in this drama.
Then during this week in Beijing,
there is an event that is officially gonna have its forum open on the 18th,
"The spring capital tv program forum and market" thing
and during this thing is gonna promote and sell already existing projects
and also promoting projects that are on the way haven't been made yet,
but are destined to be made and among the list of stuff.
I have two projects that i'm really interested in just quickly mentioning them
if they ever become true in the future.
Let's see who can be picked as the lead actors.
First project is a period drama. Yang Ming Zhuan
The story of Wang Yangming, a ming dynasty philosopher,
who is one of the most important philosophers in Chinese history.
Often he is considered to be the others saint, Apart from Confucius.
He's much closer to our current history,
he's a Ming dynasty percent instead of Confucius time, which is 2,000 years ago,
he has such a heavy and big influence in Asia, particularly in Japan, interestingly enough,
his theories and his writings and his ideas.
This is a very unusual person, super intelligent, a legendary,
can do the practical human world stuff so well,
but also having such a incredible ways of looking at the world.
If you have never heard about Wang Yangming,
I highly suggest you, not the actor who is named Wang Yangming,
okay, the historical figure, find his stuff to read.
And if you are interested in philosophy, you definitely should check out his stuff.
he's one of the rare human beings that has ever happened to earth
and is a great blessing and fortune to all mankind level person.
If you make his life story into a drama, it's a tough task,
but if you made it well, it's kind of like gonna secure you
a position in the history of chinese dramas that level
and for the actor whoever gets to play this role,
it's gonna be such a challenge, but also such a huge opportunity.
So cannot wait for this drama to get moving.
The other one that i'm really curious to see is a short drama,
18 episodes, based on ZIiJin Chen and a very famous writer who gave us
The Bad Kids and The Long NIght, his work.
And it's a story about a hydro engineer pairing up with a psychiatrist,
going on an adventure, trying to solve a very mysterious case.
And a lot of interesting things happen along the way.
So because it's ZJC and he's such a good writer.
Now it's just seeing who is gonna take the helm and who are gonna be featured in this drama.
Then to conclude today's video,
we're gonna quickly talk about filmland.
First is Delicious Romance film version has already been released in chinese cinema
and judging from the reviews i've seen coming back from all kinds of reviewers.
It seems to be a really good one.
and keeps to the spirit of the drama series which is great.
Also the film Wandering Earth 2 has officially released its streaming version.
So now it's online and you can watch it and stop it and rewind it to see
all the details you've missed while you were watching it in cinema,
then we have two films that are coming out at the end of this month in cinema.
One is the postponed for half a year Chang Kong Zhi Wang,
which initially I think was supposed to come out during last year's
Cctober chinese national holiday slot.
The Born to Fly fighter jet pilots film led by Wang Yibo and Hu Jun
So this time I think it's coming out officially on the 28th.
On the same day, there's another film that will be released in cinema.
And it is called Changsha Ye Sheng Huo, English title, Changsha Night Life
Changsha is the capital city of the province of Hunan.
If you've watched all those Hunan television entertainment programs,
you will be very familiar with the city.
This is a film about well, contemporary people's nightlife in this city
and it's led by Yi Fang and Zhang Jingyi
I like both actors very much and I think Zhang Jingyi is almost completely without makeup in this film.
She's pretty she doesn't need makeup at all.
It would be really cool to see young actresses go on big screen and not getting you know super made up
hope these two films can do well in cinema
and cannot wait to see the online version of the film version of Delicious Romance
that should conclude everything about dramaland I wanna talk about this week.
Thank you for watching AvenueX i'll see you in my next video,
meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.