Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX
looking at chinese dramaland in the past week.
Let's start with dramas that have either aired or are scheduled
to air and we have quite a lot of things to run through today.
Number one, as i'm making this video,
on april the 1st,
april fool's day that drama i've mentioned twice before.
Already on mango television period, romantic drama
lady in butcher's hous is live
then a drama should go live on april the 5th and
it's the long-waited drama for all the Yang Yang fans out there,
Te Zhan Rong Yao, China Special Forces led by
Yang Yang and Li Yitong
This drama has been around for a long time
a lot of people have been waiting for it
Very soon we'll find out whether it's worth watching
2 days after that on april the 7th.
If nothing went wrong,
a drama should go live on both satellite television and web.
It's the long waited, being censored, heavily cut a lot off.
Period historical drama Shan He Yue Ming
I can't even remember when was the last time I mentioned it.
It's like 2 years ago or something like that.
It's a Ming Dynasty setting historical drama led by Feng Shofeng
Ying Er, Chen Baoguo
and it focuses on one of the most colorful and prominent emperors of that time.
永乐大帝， Yong Le Emperor, Zhu Di (朱棣）
in recent years‘ ming dynasty dramas,
you have seen this character being played
by multiple actors already
originally, this is a whopping 80 episodes historical drama.
Now it's 49,
so they cut off 31 episodes.
I really cannot imagine,
honestly with the drama that has cut off 40% of its original length
whether a story would still make sense.
It will be a very interesting thing to look at
3 days after that that should be april the 10th.
A drama should go live also on satellite television
cctv8 and iqiyi and this drama is on my list to watch
because it's led by Qin Hao and Ren Suxi
And this is a drama i've mentioned before.
Qin Ai de Xiao Hai, Left Right
because that was the title of the film that this drama is based on.
And it's a story of a contemporary couple who's got a child,
who's got terminal disease and to save their child,
they have to basically give birth to another child
because it is the great actor,
Qin Hao and Ren Suxi
I'll definitely check it out
also because it's produced by iqiyi and
specifically the same producer lady who did The Bad Kids
and a couple of really well received projects in recent years from iqiyi
but obviously still we have to wait till the drama actually comes out to see
whether it's a production that can save iqiyi's reputation this year.
Then let's move on to other productions at other stages.
First dramas that have released new trailers,
so they're very likely to come out very soon.
Number one is Feng Qi Long Xi
The wind blows from long xi.
The period setting spy drama led by Chen Kun and Bai Yu
released a new tiny tiny trailer on its social media platform.
That in a way is really suggesting they are
aiming at coming out probably this month.
Then yesterday of new trailer came out that I wasn't even aware that
this drama existed because I never caught it on my social media feed.
And well you know there are that many dramas going on
all the time in china
and made me really wanna watch it now.
And I think it will be ideal.
If this drama actually airs tomorrow,
because right now is the best time to air it
because it's led by Tan Jianci
and the heat of Under the Skin hasn't completely gone away yet.
So if it comes in,
it will be like perfectly riding on the residue heat
of the previous drama that he leads.
This is called Ni An Quan Ma, Are You Safe
Very literal translation and it's a tencent drama
and it focuses on cyber crimes.
So a lot of hacking, a lot of coding,
a lot of the people fighting in front of their
computers with their keyboard in their screen.
And the cool thing about this drama is first it's led by
Tan Jianci and Rong Zishan
Rong Zishan, one of the genius acting kid
that we've come across in The Bad Kids
and made his name known through that drama.
He's grown a lot since then getting taller
and looking more and more like an adult,
they would be the leading actors of this drama.
And this time TJC would be the leader,
unlike in Under the Skin where TJC is like the
late comer and the cat that joined the dog team,
this time he'll turn it around,
he will be the boss which is cool
apart from sitting in front of computers and typing,
they also have a lot of direct conflict
running around,
getting chased,
getting beaten up,
all kinds of adventure stuff so
I cannot wait.
Also the thing is the director is Cao Dun (曹盾)
okay that makes me feel very mixed.
Cao Dun is a genius for camera language.
He is one of the best cinematographer really in chinese dramaland,
whenever it comes to the look of things, right?
He will make it the best of the best possible.
But he's not good at telling stories,
narrative pacing,
and all that, not the master.
So i'm worried about this drama in that department,
but i'm excited to see how beautiful it's gonna look on camera.
So Feng Qi Long Xi the period drama and
Ni An Quan Ma the contemporary drama,
both of them, like air tomorrow
ok? I Want it NOW
don't wanna wait anymore.
Fingers crossed, they're gonna show up very soon.
Then there are a couple of dramas that have wrapped also during this week.
Number one is the ever since day one they started shooting,
made everybody excited period fantasy drama,
Chang Yue Jin Ming, Till the end of the Moon
Bai Lu, Luo Yunxi
a lot of pretty people with very pretty costumes
this fantasy drama finally is wrapped.
It's gonna be a while until it can come out
because it's a long period fantasy drama
think about the amount of special effect and green screen.
Honestly, if it can come out within half a year,
I'd call it fast.
I think most of Luo Yunxi's fans out there.
you're probably hoping that the other drama he was in
that hasn't come out yet,
would come out in between this time
whether it could come out or not.
ah well It's still all up in the air
questionable.
I mean the other Tan Jianci and Chen Zheyuan drama
is also something that we all wanna see,
but
could be tomorrow could be never.
The other drama that has wrapped is the period drama.
that's led by Yuan Bingyan and Zhong Hanliang,
Qing Cheng Yi Qing Huan, The Emperor's Love
That drama is wrapped also during this week.
Another period drama that may take a long time to finish its post production.
Also during this week,
a drama has released its first set of official
posters
not sure when is gonna come out,
but it feels like they have probably done most of the production work,
which is the QIan Fu Zhe, The Infiltrator that i've mentioned
produced by the same company that did The Rebel
and in many ways like The Rebel's sister drama,
the one that's led by Huang Xiaoming, Jiang Xin, Wan Qian
Another espionage drama setting Min Guo time,
and if you've watched Rebel, okay pretty much the same
atmosphere, time setting, styles, same company.
and honestly, it's not the leading actors that I look forward to most,
but Wu Xiaoliang
because he's in this drama and
this great actor who's in (Longest Day in Chang'an),
who is in Crime Crackdown.
One of my favorite supporting actors I've come across in recent years
and cannot wait for his acting
in anything and everything.
Then we also have a couple of dramas that
have started shooting during this week.
Number one is a drama i've mentioned before,
based on a novel has multiple name changes.
Right now the title is Yang Fang Li de Mao Xiao Sheng
It's based on the novel.
Hi,Ni de Guo Chan
which right now on dramalist
it still has the chinese Pinyin title.
Hi, Ni de Guo Chan
and it's led by Hu Yixuan and Ma Wenyuan
I've mentioned it once I think previously
a couple of weeks ago about this project,
now they're shooting it for real a contemporary drama.
So if you like this pairing,
you can look forward to it.
Also a drama started shooting during this week called Hua Mei
which is the name of a type of bird.
It's an espionage drama,
unlike most of the dramas in this genres.
They're set in 1940s.
And this one is set in 1960s,
although only twenty years away from the 40s.
This is after the founding of people's republic of china,
so things are totally different.
This drama is led by Peng Xiaoran and Liu Xueyi
60s would be the time where china is trying to make its own atom bomb.
And with that, you can imagine, right?
How much espionage thing is going on in this whole,
set up
my hope for this drama is
It wouldn't take too light a tone and
making it too much like an idol drama,
because it will be very unfitting for that time setting.
And for those particular things.
And in recent years,
there are a couple of dramas that looked at very serious historical times,
but taking a really, really stupid idolizing lens and then crashed,
epically
so any sensible people these days wouldn't be doing that.
I hope this drama isn't one of those
then the last drama that has started shooting during this week
and the moment the news came out.
Internet exploded with already starting to question and fight
over who is over who in terms of their order of listing.
This is a fantasy drama based on fantasy ip that's supposed to
be already big ip but honestly probably mostly because even
bigger ips have already been taken
big female lead role.
Fantasy drama led by Yang Zi
So just compute that with every other drama
similar to this that she's being in recent years.
This is yet another one
that has just started shooting.
The drama is called Chang Xiang Si
on their official own printed materials.
The english title is Lost You Forever
I'm like
maybe you should change your title
because your title kind of spoil the whole drama immediately.
Three words, spoil the whole thing.
It's like "then there were none, "
you know
it's like oh okay they're all dead.
This one is oh okay.
So didn't end well.
So maybe just change it,
okay？
but probably this production crew wouldn't really
be aware that I said this on youtube in english.
Anyway,
this is a fantasy drama about a lot of mythological
characters who has super powerful background.
And their love hate love hate and whatever relationship.
And the thing that got people discussing it and immediately
pushing it on trending is the three male lead characters.
This drama features,
I haven't read the original novel,
apparently this original novel has a lot of fans and they're not
happy with certain arrangement of who is who and what is what.
But since I haven't read it,
I don't know what they're talking about.
I'll just tell you who are the three guys.
And for those three guys,
I look forward to this drama.
And when this drama comes out, whenever that is,
I'll watch this drama not because of its genre,
because i'm tired of fantasy,
but I will look at these three guys and see if
they provide a good experience
that will be.
Zhang Wanyi, Deng Wei, Tan Jianci
Zhang Wanyi is listed as the male lead.
Deng Wei is kind of the second, Tan Jianci is the special lead,
which you don't know how they are actually ordered in this drama
with this kind of setup because
under the skin
officially Jin Shijia is the special lead.
But honestly that drama is two male lead characters drama.
okay
So even when they have this male lead, male second,
special lead, really who knows who is more more importantly than the other.
And I guess part of the fandom people already started fighting over that,
which is just
oh why? why? stop doing that ok?
since 2021
haven't you learned a lesson about not doing things like that.
I would be looking forward to their performance because they
each have something that definitely make me look forward to it.
Zhang Wanyi made his name known last year in the couple of
heavily heavily claimed well received dramas and showed people
that as a young actor he has wide range,
very solid professional abilities.
Deng Wei, although I haven't seen him in a lot of things,
he is the better part of Miss the Dragon
I enjoyed his presence with the episodes I managed to watch of that drama.
He looks very good in period drama styling,
so I definitely will check this drama out for the good looking guys.
Tang Jianci also looks great in period dramas
He plays this probably a type of character that he really likes to play.
Judging by his own interviews,
the type of slightly complicated, twisted, psychotic,
but overall not a bad person but then not simple either.
And he has white hair, in this drama
So if you dig white long hair period look,
TJC is gonna get a serving of that,
okay
this is a long period drama.
They're gonna shoot into late summer with the schedule
and they started now, so probably not gonna see it this year.
Let's hope the drama can run smoothly from the moment.
Now when they start shooting till the moment the drama comes out,
hopefully not too much drama outside of the drama itself
smoothly getting everything done and releasing
These days is the best thing that can happen to a production.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
I'll see you in my next video.
Meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.