Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week
and let's get right into it, as usual.
Let's talk about dramas that have aired or will air very soon.
First on the 14th, a drama went live on youku
called Ting Wai, Out of Court.
And as you can tell from the title,
a court and crime drama.
So it involves a little bit of criminal investigation,
a little bit car chase,
a little bit extreme situations.
Lawyers and cases.
It is led by Xiao Yu and Luo Jin
the first six or so episodes is one part and then the next
14 episodes belongs to the next part
in the first one.
The lead is Xiao Yu, and Luo Jin is the supporting lead
in the second one.
Xia Yu is the supporting lead.
And then Luo Jin is the lead.
This is a Youku drama.
It has just started airing and
it has the most weird schedule of airing
it literally airs differently on different days.
I think it's totally because of how the story itself is structured.
I've started watching it the first two episodes
yet to make up my mind about it.
But there's one thing okay during watching those 2 episodes.
that I see that's rare these days.
It is super sharp.
They use very high definition and they really
turn up the sharpness of the image
making for example, the rim of somebody's glasses,
if it's a thin metal rim,
super sharp and making the pores on people's skin
stand out like a little mountains.
You hardly see that in any chinese dramas these days,
everybody is so in focus,
then there's a drama that has just announced it's gonna go live on.
July the 18th,
it's a mango television drama called Zhang Wei Guo de Xiao Tian
English title right now is Guo's Summer
So Zhang Weiguo, Guo's Summer
and it's a middle aged characters focused drama
led by a lot of well known people
Huang Lei, Hai Qing, Liu Yijun, Mei Ting
just by looking at those names,
you kind of already can get a feel of
what type of drama this is gonna be
the type of Sheng Huo drama,
daily life drama.
Let's see how well this one is going to do.
Now let's talk about quite a few different productions at different stages of production.
Number one there is drama i've mentioned before that started shooting,
I think around April that that has just wrapped during this week.
It is the contemporary drama Lao Jia Huo
The Old Boys, Zhang Tielin, Zhang Guoli, Wang Gang
The golden triangle of chinese period drama
about 10 years ago, all the Ji Xiaolan dramas,
anybody who's watched that?
these three guys have been like together forever
and their contemporary drama about three guys retiring.
Starting a retired sort of a home, business story
has just finished shooting.
It's an iqiyi drama and apart from these three actors names,
you also have a couple of extra safety on this drama.
Number one is the script writer is Zhao Donglin
who is the same script writer who wrote
Ordinary Glory, Jing Cha Rong Yu
that i've recently mad e a review on
also the director of this drama is actually
the same director who did Dr Tang, Guan Yu Tang Yi Sheng de Yi Qie
I think it's just gonna be a drama that my parents are gonna like,
no matter what, as for me,
I shall wait and see if it works
then there's a drama that has
started promoting and they've released their first trailer.
This is a very task-y drama that feels very like a
project that you just have to do type of drama,
but doesn't mean it's not interesting.
It is a story called the Zhang Shanghai, Liberation of Shanghai
which would be a Shanghai story in 1949 before
the founding of people's republic of china.
And it's gonna be focused on this big financial
war which is a real history and super exciting.
So if you learn chinese modern history,
particularly looking at economy all that angle of things,
you definitely know about the april to may around that time.
Shanghai 1949,
it's a classic epic fight between different powers.
One is trying to destroy the economy before it leaves for Taiwan,
and the communist party comes in and trying to stop it from happening.
It's been well recorded in history,
and it's a pretty insanity level money fighting against money thing.
So if you know anything about that part of chinese history,
this drama is totally just focused on that war.
As shanghai was the financial center of china back then
it's led by a couple of actors are well known to be playing
what we call Te XIng (特型）
So they would be playing historical figures who we have a lot of materials,
photos, videos on.
So they would have to be styled and then make up to the point that
they look at least like 70/80% like the real historical figures.
So you will have the older actors playing the generation of those politicians back then
and then you would have a couple of to my audiences better known
actors and actresses playing the younger people.
Such as Feng Shaofeng, Liu Tao, Qiao Zhenyu
They also would be playing the younger generation of characters
Featured in the story, but who are also well known historical figures.
For example, Feng Shaofeng is going to play Rong Yiren
who is a very important person in chinese modern history.
Richest person with the "Reddest" background imaginable,
their family, the Rong family even till today,
is still like the, I don't know there's the equivalent anywhere in other countries,
but it's like both politic ally and ~~~ (money wise)
the biggest family and most powerful one.
Anyway.
So this story itself because of the time setting
and because of the specific financial war,
i'm just really curious to see how they're gonna present that on screen.
Then there's a drama that has started shooting during this week.
It's called Ming Long Shao Nian,
it's a contemporary drama led by Zhang Ruoyun and Huang Yao
And the interesting thing about this is
it is a remake of the Japanese drama many years ago,
2005 drama.
So that's what, 17 years ago.
Dragons Zakura
anybody who's watched that?
it's really old,
but it's really well known.
And there's an extra thing that makes it quite cool is
the director is Ding Hei
That's the director who did Jing Cha Rong Yu, Ordinary Glory
and also the Na Nian Hua Kai Yue Zheng Yuan
and since it's adapting a japanese story
needs a lot of work on the script writer's side,
trying to transplant that out of its original cultural context
and put it in china, which is very different.
If it can do anything close to what Qi Hun did,
i'd be really happy.
Also during this week,
The Heart of Genius, Tian Cai Ji Ben Fa,
the drama that's led by Lei Jiayin, Zhang Zifeng, Zhang XIncheng
the time travel parallel universe mathmatics genius story
released its ending song mv, music video
that music video, the song is nice
and you can get a feel of what kind of story you're looking at
and then acting the golden moments in the drama.
Come on iqiyi, since you already have it,
just tell us when
come on~
Then I just caught a piece of news before I sat down,
which is a drama is set to start shooting on the 20th.
Couple of days later
looking super exciting.
Why? It's an iqiyi drama, it's called Bu Wan Mei Shou Hai Ren
Imperfect Victim.
The cool thing about this is if you look at the synopsis,
it starts with a sexual harassment case that leads
up to a rape case that leads up to big corporation
and its employee and different people like lawyers and prosecution,
all like mixed up in this whole thing.
Last year. In last couple of years.
Actually, there are a couple of cases in china
that are ike that
that got really big on internet
because of a big company's employee.
Female getting sexually harassed by their bosses.
It feels like it has something to do with the reality of things
just reading the synopsis.
So it's a pretty hot topic
look at the cast, I'm gonna read the names, okay? get ready
Zhou Xun
Liu Yijun, Chen Shu, Lin Yun
can not imagine how exciting that's gonna look like really.
And then to add on that,
the director of this drama is gonna be Yang Yang
Not the actor Yang Yang
the lady Yang Yang who did A Dream of Splendour.
So casting, the topic, the director
all look pretty exciting and it's an iqiyi drama.
you know iqiyi tends to do drama with better taste, let's say,
compared to the other couple of platforms,
not so much more,
but a tad bit more
And I hope when they finish,
it can pass censorship.
and Actually air.
Then there is a piece of news about a drama
that's not gonna shoot now.
They're saying they're gonna start shooting in August,
which looks also super exciting called Xiao Fu Qi
English title Husband and Wife,
it's gonna be written by Yuan Xidan
who is the script writer who wrote Ode to Joy Huan Le Song
The cast is Qin Hao and Zhang Xiaofei,
in the department of acting.
No problem at all
and the story itself is pretty funny.
It's talking about a husband who quit his job at the same time.
The wife suddenly got famous because she runs
a blog type of thing that blew up big.
And so the husband actually got employed by the wife to have a
salary every month and taking care of the logistics of the family,
of her work and taking care of the kid
So that's called husband and wife.
Interesting.
Also there is a project that's in the making pre production
and they're saying they wanna start shooting in september if nothing goes wrong,
just by the nature of who is the producer,
it will get a lot of attention because this is
the most famous chinese still working today,
film directors first ever produced television series
Zhang Yimou, the director, This is his first
he's not directing, but he is the producer,
the executive producer who 's basically still in control of everything.
It's his first television series.
That is called DI Yi Qiang, The First Shot,
it's unclear about the casting.
There are floating rumors on China's internet, as you can imagine,
with this kind of director,
whoever is gonna end up leading this drama,
whether they're unknown newbies or well known people already
the good pancake that everybody was trying to crash in
and get a cut of it.
Everything you see now on internet about this project
who's gonna lead it is a rumor
just looking at the conceptual poster.
It feels like assassination either or a story about sniper
that type of thing because it's the first shot.
And you see this snowy almost like a train station
or somewhere like a very industrial dark,
there's snow and there's a pool of blood
feels like it's period like it wouldn't be contemporary.
It feels like Min Guo, republic of china vibe
and then some kind of assassination happening.
Then to wrap up today's video,
there's a trailer that gotl release during this week of a film
that they are saying they're gonna put it out this year.
Unconfirmed yet when
that made people
very confused,
which is the film version of Journey of the Flower.
yeah You haven't heard me wrong, Hua Qian Gu
they released the first trailer and ................
I think we'd bettergo back and just real watch the drama version,
it will immediately make.
Ma Ke, Zhao Li Ying, Huo Jianhua
and impression upon you consciousness
that much better
in the film version
It's Chen Du Ling, Li Chenbin, Mao Zijun
Mao Zijun is Shao Qianmo, which is a bit weird
I don't quite understand why,
but it's at least ok,
Chen Duling playing Hua Qiangu .................
and then the actor who plays Bai Zihua
Huo Jianhua, We are so ungrateful in terms of like back then
Still like I remember right, back then,
when Hua Qian Gu was like hot
there were people complaining about Huo Jianhua not being at the best
of what he could be like compared to the olden days
of Xian Jian 3 (Chinese Paladin 3)
He's not a good actor.
His styling is terrible.
He no longer looks as good as he used to be blahx4
How many years has it been?
Now we have
This
sorry sorry, Huo Jianhua
we apologize. Why would anybody make a film version like this?
Like, what's the point?
money laundering?
I think it's just gonna be another thing that most of the ranting
content creators on china's internet
gonna feed on.
Probably that would be the only purpose of its existence really.
So that should be the end of this video.
Thank you for watching AevnueX
if you wanna hear me talking a little bit more,
you can check on the super long live stream I did Thursday,
which is my july live stream where I talked about dramas as usual.
And then I played qin on camera that didn't go very well,
but hey I tried my best.
Next time i'll remember baby powder or sand bags,
it's gonna make the whole thing easier for me.
Please take care. I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.