Hello welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week
as i'm making this video,
it's about half an hour from china's january 1st 2022
happy new year.
First a drama went live last week unannounced.
and it was on sunday,
december the 26th,
Wang Pai Bu Dui, Ace Troops
the military drama set in 1980s, china,
Huang Jingyu, Xiao Zhan and Zhong Chuxi
so it just showed up without any previous announcement.
Then we do have a drama that announced not so long agao
that is going to go live on january the 4th.
On the platform Youku
and it's a Hong Kong made drama led by
many many very familiar hong kong actors called Jia Zu Rong Yao
Modern Dynasty
a business war drama set in contemporary time
definitely a genre and the type of drama that
hong kong is super good at making
led by Zhang Zhilin and Yang Yi
They have been with me since I was very very young.
Zhang Zhilin is what
like 50 years old or something.
He still looks like he's 30.
And yang yi has recently changed her name.
Also, her husband has done that too.
So she has a new name called Yang Qianyao
but because they just recently did that and also
her older name is much better known for audiences.
So i'm also using that here,
then it also includes many other very familiar
Hong Kong based actors and actresses.
So this is definitely a drama that I'll be looking out for
when it airs
Then we have quite a few productions that all wrapped during the week
everybody is aiming on getting everything done before 2022 hit.
So first is Yun Xiang Zhuan
The Ingenious One,
the period Wu Xia drama led by Chen Xiao, Mao Xiaotong
Wang Jinsong, we've mentioned this drama multiple times previously,
the ingenious one it's wrapped
also a period drama that only started shooting not so long ago.
So this is a quickly produced drama
warning sign number one,
period fantasy drama warning sign number two,
and then it's led by the ...
Tong Mengshi and Zhang Yuxi
should I say TMS is a warning sign number three?
given the other drama that's done by him
and Zhang Zhixi that came out this year,
that was pretty horrible to look at.
Anyway,
Qian Qiu Ling
doesn't have an english title or at
least english title is also the pin yin, Qian Qiu Ling
This drama has wrapped shooting good luck to this production.
I mean honestly, if it's made in a way that it's worth renting as Miss the Dragon
it's also better than just not having anything worth talking about.
Also a drama.
I've previously mentioned in one of the weekly video,
a contemporary drama has wrapped during this week.
Jin Tian de Ta Men, Trio in Cheng Du
a drama focused on three contemporary women and their partners,
and then mostly focusing on restaurant and cooking and food
led by She Shiman, Song Yi, Li Chun
The guys featuring Zhang Chao, Wang Renjun, Li Junxian
Shen Fei
If you've been watching Luo Yang
i'm feeling very sad when his character got ...
That's the that actor.
I really like him.
I think i've noticed him since the days of Jie Ai
How many people still remember that drama with Song Qian and Huang Jingyu?
I think he played one of the fox in the drama and I really liked it.
I'm happy to see now he's getting more and more noticed
and showing up in more dramas.
Also during this week,
a period drama has wrapped,
and it's a drama we've mentioned multiple times.
Xing Han Can Lan, Love like the Galaxy
fantasy period drama led by Wu Lei and Zhao Lusi
They announced they have wrapped.
They also released a small video,
"the making of..." special feature video.
So there's a long way to go before this drama can show up probably next year.
Since that's the only video they've released.
It's very hard to judge what kind of drama this will turn out to be
I just feel slightly worried about the wording of that video,
because it's like 99% focused on.
We wanna make it look good,
we wanna make the lighting look good.
We wanna have a lot of details
when a drama promotes itself and it emphasizes heavily on
props, sets, costumes,
all those hardware departments of production.
Usually, it's like,
we don't have other things to
show off
over the last 2 years.
I've been doing this continuously every week.
I've paid attention to all types of promotion materials
like the timing and then what they focus on.
And then when the drama actually airs
what it looks like,
I have definitely noticed the pattern of when
certain dramas promote in a certain angle,
in the end what you get
so slightly worried about that.
Let's see if I 跳预言家（predict things) again,
I don't want to
I want this to be actually better than I anticipate
then dramas at other stages of production.
There are two dramas that have released new trailer during this week.
At least i've caught probably there are more.
One is Wang Hou Yu Sheng
A Chance Meeting
the second collaboration of Wallace Chung
Zhong Hanliang and Li Xiaoran
I've talked about this production already.
I don't know if I watch a drama,
I would watch it for more for these nostalgia value
or actually for the drama itself.
Let's wait to see when this drama will air.
Hopefully soon
the other drama that has released its trailer and I feel like
it probably will show up very soon is a period fantasy
sort of those cheap, sweet, romantic drama
that we've seen too many times
and this drama will also air on Youku
when it airs, whenever that is
Yin Yuan Da Ren Qing Liu Bu
My Cupid in Love, as the title suggests, clearly,
you know what it is
The story is about a god who falls to human
realm and meets a girl who is a matchmaker.
And the leads are Cao Yuchen and Tian Xiwei
Cao yuchen, he was in The Untamed
and he was that good looking, rich, spoiled,
unlucky,
but not bad guy.
This drama also features Xiao Yuliang
Although I don't like his particular styling,
that hairstyle doesn't quite suit him.
Wigs for guys for period dramas is always something that's super tricky,
well let's hope.
In the drama itself,
his character is interesting enough to offset.
the little bit weird styling of his.
Then let's talk about a couple of things that
have started or will start shooting very soon.
First, there are two things very interestingly
named almost exactly the same
and based on the same manga.
It's just one of them is film,
the other one is television series.
The film version has started shooting very low key,
but it has started and it is the
Yi Ren Zhi Xia
a very well known ip in the manga land in china.
This film version is led by Hu Xianxu and Li Wanda
There's already leaked paparazzi materials of them on set filming,
so definitely has started production.
And I think I mentioned that in last live stream,
that Hu Xianxu has lost a lot of weight for this character specifically
got a lot of muscle built,
looking more sharp and handsome,
but at the same time just losing a bit unique vibe
But that's just my opinion,
also there's been a rumor about the television series
of the same ip is gonna start shooting in january.
It's casting hasn't been 100% knocked down
There are some rumors about one of the characters
in the casting might be one actor might not be.
All the news say one of the main character would be Peng Yuchang
So the equivalent of Hu Xianxu playing that role in the
television series will be Peng yuchang playing that role.
And since I am not an expert of the original ip at all
don't know which version will be a better casting.
And it's rather interesting to see the same ip being made
at the same time into a film and then into a television series.
I hope it doesn't end up in fandom war
when these two things come out.
Also there's a drama has just started shooting.
I think the news came out yesterday.
It's a contemporary drama called San Fen Ye
and because it's so new that it's not on english language platforms.
So I don't know about its official english title very likely.
They don't have one yet.
It's led by Wu Qian and Zhang Binbin
So if you like Wu Qian and and you like Zhang Binbin
now they're working together.
It's about a girl whose father owns a big company,
sends her to a branch company to solve some crisis there and there.
She meets her university sort of crush,
like the most famous, well known, good looking and clever guy
in their university and now working there.
And they come together and then they work on china's own so gps system,
which is called Bei Dou
Then to wrap up today's video.
Also during this week.
Jin ji jiang, the golden rooster awards,
mainland's highest film awards possible for any productions,
actors and people working in this business.
This year announced the award winning result.
A couple of weeks ago, they announced the nominee list.
And when the list came out,
people just went
online
Nei Yu Wan Le
the entertainment business in china is done is hopeless now
because of... it includes people who are just like
basically nobody think they deserve to be there,
but they're on the list type of thing
well at least when awards actually came out
it makes sense.
The best actor went to Zhang Yi
can't argue with the fact that he's born to be an actor.
He's just one of the best actors out there.
The best actress went to Zhang Xiaofei
She's not that famous probably to my audiences
because she doesn't show up in dramas.
She mostly does Xiao Pin which is the type of
comedy performance on stage
and then she did film.
But the fact that she got the best actress everybody was very happy
because she was in the beginning of 2021 chinese new year slot film,
hi mom.
And that film did so well.
It literally made her from
nobody thought of her as a leading lady in filmland
to the hottest film actress overnight,
but she deserves it.
She's been working there for so many years and had so much hardship.
And the coolest thing about her success is her relationship with Jia Ling
She's also a comedian in china and very well known and both
of them were in that film and it's a film Jia Ling made
for her own mother who has passed away and the actress
Zhang Xiaofei is Jia Ling's best girlfriend.
They're so tight and they've been so tight for years.
They live in the same building,
they have like the same looking pet and over the
years that they are struggling in the industry.
as comedy actresses,
their own story can be made into film and
it probably will make a lot of people cry.
Anyway.
It's just so cool to see that these two
girlfriends against a lot of odds in this industry
made it.
And when Zhang Xiaofei got this best actress of the
highest awards in chinese filmland possible
Jia Ling is there to congratulate her
their real life friendship is something that's just like better than films
better than dramas,
it just makes everybody who look at them just feel
so heartwarmed and feeling we can still trust
There are actually good things.
in our pretty messed up world,
human relationships and beautiful friendships and love.
Anyway, jia ling and zhang xiao fei,
okay the golden girlfriends of chinese filmland for sure.
And then if you're curious about other awards
just google,
you'll find golden rooster this year.
So that would wrap up the first week,
the video of 2022,
just because it happens on january the first,
but it's actually talking about 2021's last week.
And then for the coming week
I'll just let myself off for 1 week.
I'll still show up for the weekly video on saturday,
but on tuesday and thursday,
i'll stay quiet and shut up and trying to deal
with a lot of errands that I need to get done.
During the week,
very good way to spend the first week of a new year,
and also very nice to do errands when the
temperature outside will stay below like-25.
hear how many times my my heaters started working during this video?
you know how cold it is
outside, I think, right now it's-30.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
i hope you'll have a great 2022,
and let's all hope that the world is gonna have a better year
in 2022.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I'll see you my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.