Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
First, at the very end of last week,we've had the White Magnolia Award based in Shanghai.
So usually, the people who are in Shanghai circle in this business gets a level of preferences.
And it has been the history of this award, google that name,
and you'll find the full list this year and among all the award winners,
the highly debated is to do with the project not a specific person which is ZWYG production
Bright Future, Xian Wei Da Yuan that aired at the end of last year
that features Wu Yue, who also got the best actress this time and Zhang Xincheng, Hu Ge and other people
and it happened to be the drama that got the award of best dramas alongside with A Lifelong Journey,
but also it gets other things like in script writing and stuff which
honestly does not make sense
as a visual medium form storytelling project, it really isn't that outstanding compared to the other contestants,
but because of its theme, it gets the mainstream award.
and yeah people are like very meh~ about that.
Wu Yue is a very good actress, but her performance in this drama is just too normal.
Best actor goes to Lei Jiayin which I think is pretty fair.
Also very nice to see the supporting actress went to Liu Dan who was
the high pressure cooker aunty that everybody was scared of at the beginning of last year.
Now let's get back to the usual stuff.
First dramas that have gone live on the 28th we have a drama that air dropped on iqiyi
called Yu Ni Shi Nian Yu Wo Ban Sheng, English title is Ten Years.
It is the second collaboration between the actor Zhang Yao and actress Zhang Yaqing
Yi Cun Xiang Si, Love in Between, a couple of years ago really loved that drama
made quite a few videos about that drama.
This time they're in a contemporary drama and even better is
it's filmed pretty much completely in my hometown Chongqing
and this time the city is not named in a fictional naming anyway,
it's literally just Chongqing, locations are all real with real name.
and I've watched a couple of episodes,
I feel unfortunately this drama's quality is very very substandard.
It is the type of drama where whether you do well or not is completely up to you production.
I'm just a platform to host you and that's it, that type of deal they have with the platform.
So there's zero promotion going on with this drama,
and they release 24 episodes all in one go
i've watched about 8, 7 already and I may not continue
just because the quality of the drama really is very, very average,
feel a little bit pity because I really loved love in between and love the collaboration between these two.
Next we have two dramas airing on 29th.
In a way they are both airdrops dramas
one kind of announced one day befor, the other one literally just air dropped on the day.
The first one is Zui Guang de Ri ZI, previously named Can Lan, Can Lan,
If you still remember that, english title now is Ray of light
and it is led by Ren Min, Wang Yuan, Guo Jingfei
that high school drama, one teacher, two students,
one of them is 复读生 Fu Du Sheng
which means one year she went through the college exam and wasn't happy about the results.
So she decided to stay in last year of high school for another year and then retake the exam.
The other student played by Wang Yun is somebody who stopped studying
for private reason for a year and then went back,
so that he ended up actually in the same year of last high school year with the female character.
Then Guo Jingfei plays a high school teacher who for some unfortunate event happened in his career
left teaching for 3 years, now he comes back and faces his new challenges
and I have started watching the drama, so far, good enough.
It's 30 episodes I will see if is worth talking about as it airs more episode,
it has a really weird schedule as every drama airing on Youku kind of has.
On the same day we have an airdrop drama that happened on Tencent.
and that is the contemporary drama that has been in a lot of weird places in the past year or two
called Mu Se Xin Yue and right now okay on dramalist its english title is Twilight
It's not vampire thing, nothing to do with that.
If you look at the title song of this drama,
when it shows the title at the last minute of that song,
it actually reads "Heart"
So I have no idea actually what is real, proper official english title of this drama.
Maybe the drama doesn't even care about that.
It is the one that's led by Ren Jialun and Angelababy.
This drama has gone through a lot of really funny episodes
during its post production and kind of promotion because of the fandoms of the two leads
the type of like who is number one, the whole war going on.
And i've actually caught up at least with yesterday's all the episodes 4, I believe, day one
better than I thought, one thing that I would say that I didn't expect is
it's contemporary so it's all original voice
because of this drama is very normal in its settings.
You don't have superpower, supernatural beings, fantasies
type of male lead that Ren Jialun often ends up playing.
He actually plays a normal person who is a script writer and who tends to act a little bit comically
in his life that he actually sounds a lot better
than all the other roles he's done with his own voice.
He talks like a normal human in this one,
and because he is very animated and he tends to act in a much more dramatic,
almost stage theatrical way than all the other roles i've seen him doing.
And somehow that helps his line delivery.
He definitely engages his vocal cord and doesn't sigh at the end of every line this time.
So he sounds immediately better than every other thing he's done before.
So i'm like a little bit surprised.
It may not be the greatest contemporary drama out there.
It definitely has a level of detached from reality thing going as he is script writer,
she is a psychiatrist and they ended up living together,
renting the same flat, um um typical, isn't it?
Then we have a couple of trailers that have come out and suggesting these dramas are gonna show up.
Sooner than you think.
First is a period drama Tencent owned Zhuo Zhuo Feng Liu
doesn't actually have an official english title on my drama list so far
led by JIng Tian and Feng Shaofeng
They've released its first official quite long trailer that actually gives you a good idea about what the story is.
Female lead in a fictional dynasty, ancient time in china
who's very good at study who actually went to the exam
and become an official like the first female official in this dynasty setting
that typical everything men can do, women can do too story
that's set in a fiction dynasty.
It's on the list of a list of tencent dramas that are likely to go live
from now on to end of Q3
and I'll talk about those Tencent dramas in a bit,
but first let's talk about the other trailer that just got released a couple of hours ago,
a long time ago i've mentioned it once and then there was no news,
but now seems they're gonna area very soon
a period fantasy idol drama led by again Angelababy and Ma Tianyu
If you still remember there was a project that's like that.
Chinese title is Chen Yuan, english title is Divine Destiny.
They've just put out another trailer very much looking like they're gonna drop it soon
then let's quickly go through that Tencent list of dramas.
They are intending to put out and that will be Xi Chu Yu Men
West out of Yumen, the adventure drama was Bai Yu and Ni Ni
Yu Gu Yao, Longest Promise, that's led by Xiao Zhan and Ren Min.
So if that one airs now, then Ren Min would also have two dramas airing at the same time with her leading it
Chang Xiang Si, Lost You Forever
Yang zi with three guys prospectively going live soon.
Hei Bai Mi Ma, the one with Wang Ziqi and Su Xiaotong
and then Zui Yao Yuan de Ju Li, The Furthest Distance we've talked about last week
Zhang Yunlong and Zhong Chuxi
So these couple of dramas are very likely to go live from Tencent soon
moving on to a couple of other items on dramas.
First there are two dramas that have gone through censorship this week.
So anytime they can go live, first one is from Tencent Qian Fu Zhe
The Infiltrator , the sister drama with The Rebel
set at the same time, pretty much same type of espionage drama of min guo setting
led by Huang Xiaoming and Jiang Xin
We have talked about this multiple times before
the next one that has gotten its license is a Youku drama called Yi Lu Zhao Yang
english title Sunrise, and it's a contemporary female leads ensemble drama
that's by Li Landi, Wang Yang, Wang Ju, Gao Ye
Mhm, interesting, with these actors leading it.
I'll definitely check it out when it airs.
Let's hope it airs soon enough
then moving on to two more pieces of news on dramas that have wrapped during this week
first is the drama Wu Yun Zhi Shang, doesn't really have an official english title yet.
It's a Sun Li led drama and i've talked about it when it started filming I believe.
I have impression of this. This is a thriller crime, police drama led by
Sun Li, Ding Guansen, Lu Jin, that one is wrapped.
It's very low profile, very low key.
It's Sun Li coming back to police drama after she first made her name knowm
in dramaland playing a policewoman in Yu Guan Yin that many years ago,
it's definitely something that pretty much, I think when it airs
everybody would just like you know tune in to take a look and see what it looks like drama.
The the other drama that has wrapped this week is also another drama that's super low key
to the point that I don't think i've caught it when it started shooting.
It's called Sha Chen Bao, english title Sandstorm
12 episodes on Youku, and it's led by Duan Yihong, Wang Qiang, Zhang Jianing
Murder case solving crime drama that's set in a Northwest little town that's covered by storm of sand,
therefore Sandstorm the title.
It's written by the very famous scriptwriter Zhao Dongling who's written
Jing Cha Rong Yu and a couple of other really well received chinese dramas.
We probably have to wait at least half a year for it to finish post production and other things
moving on projects that have started shooting during this week
actually happened last week. But last week was insanity.
It's a Mango television, contemporary drama called Ling Yi Zhong Lan English title Reblooming Blue
because it's talking about Jing De Zhen 景德镇
the type of china that gets made in this town that's very famous,
and it's led by Song Qian and Zhou Yumin
It's about somebody who grows up in this town is famous for producing chinaware
and then went to the northern Beijing capital couldn't stick their roots down
and decided to come back to their hometown meeting somebody.
Also trying to start their own business.
So it's tied into the china making local industry
Song Qian and Zhou Yumin I can't wait I can't wait okay
just because it's these two when it airs I'll definitley check it out,
that's everything about dramaland that has happened this week.
One thing I wanna quickly mention which is before before I sat down I caught something
that just went out on bilibili which is a promotional video
coming from Netease which is a big chinese music platform also game platform.
It used to have like very tight relationship with Blizzard, but it all went xxxs up.
Anyway. This company is known for making a lot of games,
and they have a new promotional video of one that they've had for a while.
Anyway, the game is called Ni Shui Han 逆水寒
which is from the wu xia novel, Ni Shui Han 逆水寒
which also had a drama made almost two decades ago,
led by Zhang Zhilin, Zhong Han liang, Li Xiaoran, Song Jia
one of my favorite Wu Xia drama.
They made a new promotional video and a new song for the game.
And to promote this game, they got Zhong Hanliang back.
They got him dressed in Gu Xizhao's outfit in the drama
almost exactly as 20 years ago and sang the song.
So the game released a new MV, Music video of the actor now two decades later
dressed as his previous character, singing the song,
and reprise certain classic shot from the drama,
obviously edited mixed in with the game footages and
I saw it this morning when I woke up and i'm like screaming in my bed,
it only happens with time when you get older and you just see something like that.
You never thought one day it's gonna happen.
Take that classic shot if you've watched that drama you know what it is.
Anyway, I was almost in tears.
I just wish this type of thing can happen more often in dramaland
or in gameland and anywhere that will make me feel so good about life
regardless of you know all the shit that's going on in the world.
It's still very, very worth living.
Thank you for watching AvenueX i'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.