Hello, welcome to another video from AvnueX
looking at Chinese dramaland in the past week
and let's get right into it.
First dramas that I said will go live did go live according to schedule
time seems to have forgotten drama.
They actually aired 18 episodes in the first week and i've watched all of them.
so you can look forward to a review soon.
Then let's talk about a couple of dramas that
have just announced when they're gonna go live.
In chronological order of them going live.
first on August 7th,
the Cang Lan Jue
Period fantasy drama from iqiyi
led by Wang Hedi and Yu Shuxin that
i've talked about many many many times before
is gonna go live.
I've heard rumors about this drama at least has
more interesting cg than other fantasy dramas.
We shall wait and see if that's true.
I am not worried about Yu Shuxin, her being
able to do this type of drama and role
it is mostly on the guy that
let's wait and see you know
if he improves from the quite catastrophic Miss the Dragon
This story actually has an animation version.
I've seen a couple of clips of this animation online
and it's actually really really interesting.
Let's see the live action version how that would compare
then one day after that on August 8th on Youku,
a drama will go live.
This is a drama i've talked about previously a couple of times
that I really look forward to previously.
It's Sheng Tun literally means swallowed alive
That's the novel's name that the drama is based on
and then they had a different name I think
and now has this final name called Dan Xiao Gui,
Literally means coward,
but the English title now is nobody knows
quite accurate to the novel's story.
and I'm not gonna spoil it further for you because it's a crime story.
Mystery story has a lot of solving the cases element in it,
so not gonna spoil it.
This drama is a contemporary drama
last year when they were filming it,
it took them 4 months to shoot 16 episodes,
which is like the slowest schedule you can imagine from Chinese dramaland
meaning they really try to make it refined.
It's also shot all at real location, real weather,
super cold winter snow.
So anybody who wants to see a little bit snow,
we're gonna get some.
This drama is led. by Ou Hao, Wang Yuwen, also featuring
Zhou Yiran and a couple of very well known actors.
The type of many years ago something happened.
Many years later something happens and
people go to investigate old case
definitely. I will check this drama out when it airs
Suddenly I'm busy
for a bit of time.
I am kind of like having nothing to watch in Chinese dramaland
that I literally ran through love and destiny again.
Then you already see my community post that I put out on Thursday evening,
which is on the 10th, Min Guo Da Zhen Tan, Checkmate
the
not actually in any way related to My Roommate is A Detective
in terms of the script,
the idea of creating it,
but happen to be iqiyi drama
happened to feature the two same lead actors
happen to pretty much happen at the same period of time,
different location.
Hu Yitian, Zhang Yunlong
beca use my roommate and (checkmate) both are produced byiqiyi
and they even kind of use the same aesthetics,
color palette,
costume design,
even the same lens,
cause the lens flare is identical.
It's so funny when I look at the trailer
and they even design a couple of sets
that look identical
almost can interchange between the two dramas.
This drama is coming out on the 10th and I cannot wait.
A lot of the cases are the Chinese version
of the queen of detective writings' work.
They actually bought copyright,
so it's a real adaptation.
It does feature a female lead character played by Zhang Xinyu
but I don't think we would mind
if she plays a reasonably good character in the story.
It's fine, it's more like it's a BL
my roommate is a detective,
it wasn't a BL at all
but people want to interpret it that way
because these two just go together really well.
Now in this second drama,
again these two actors looking almost identical to their previous roles
different names different place.
Previously it was in Shanghai,
now it was in Harbin,
the northeastern part of China,
you're gonna see a lot of the snow in this drama,
probably fake snow but still snow
like this is so good
raw material for multiple incarnation lifetimes editing.
I'm already laughing last night when I heard the news that this
drama is scheduled for sure
it was one of the happiest moment i've experienced
during this year regarding a drama.
Make my August great.
Then there's a film that's gonna go into theater in China on August 13th,
Duan Qiao, The Fallen Bridge,
contemporary mystery, crime, revenge,
film that's led by Ma Sichun, Wang Junkai, Fan Wei
It talks about a bridge suddenly collapses in a city
and they found a body that's been built into the bridge.
And then identifying the victim,
the victim's daughter is played by Ma Sichun
and she seeks out Wang Junkai's role for help
to investigate what happened and then revenge.
That's the rough plot line, feels very neat and comfortable
for a film length to talk about that type of thing.
In terms of whether it's a good story,
we shall wait and see
Ma sichun, focus on your career,
everybody who's in any way ever liked her.
That's our unanimous opinion about her current...
Just focus on your career.
come on Come on, you can do more, you can do better
then, let's talk about quickly that during this week in China,
the Bai Hua Jiang
hundred flower award happened,
which is a film award in China.
That's one of the 2/3 most important ones,
Jin Ji and Bai Hua
Golden Rooster and then the Hundred Flower are like a pair of awards.
The golden rooster is decided by a professional panel
of people who are in the film industry.
Then Bai Hua comes from audiences' voting.
If you Google you're gonna find the full list,
but I'm just gonna mention for the best actor and best actress,
it went to Zhang Yi and Yuan Quan
Pretty reasonable as for the rest you can you
you can Google that yourself if you're interested.
Then during this week,
a drama started production.
It's yet another Candle in tomb drama that's
still led by Pan Yueming and Zhang Yuqi
Cool. So people who like this series you have more coming,
although like when are we gonna see there's one I think right?
That's waiting to air still hasn't aired.
This new one is called Nan Hai Gui Xu, South Sea Tomb.
So another location,
another round of encounters with all kinds of weird
creatures and adventure still led by this team.
They're producing this drama really fast, but come on,
you're not airing it fast enough.
Pan Yueming
He should work out a little bit more.
I'm just saying you know, it will be more fitting for his role.
Think about somebody who goes out on adventures all the time.
Climbing mountains, jumping into whatever
situations super physically demanding job.
The thing with Chinese actors versus actresses is actresses
almost completely, all of them over, really over management,
their body, their physiques
They get so skinny.
They're so on diet all the time,
they're so on training all the time,
whereas the guys the guys,
you know they're just having it way too easy,
not saying there aren't very hard working guys out there,
but comparatively speaking,
not very responsible people
then last piece of news of today's video during the week,
we've had 7.7,
which is 7th day on 7th lunar month of the year
kind of being coined now as China's traditional Valentine's Day,
although actually it has nothing to do with that.
Interesting thing.
Anyway, all the dramas that have anything to do with romance,
which is 90% of Chinese dramas these days,
feel the obligation of promoting themselves
whether they are already on air or will air
We've had a new round of release of all kinds of materials, poster,
special whatever photos and ps, photoshop stuff
fantasy dramas, period dramas,
contemporary dramas from all platforms
just reminding people we are here.
Come and watch us when we air.
I'll just show you a couple of posters here okay of the
dramas that have promoted themselves during this week.
Some of them,
I'm definitely interested in,
but now I have Nobody knows.
I have Cang Lan Jue
I have uh Checkmate
and then Time forgotten thing is ongoing.
And now and I'm also chasing Galaxy.
So suddenly i'll face a least five to six dramas at the same time.
Wish me look, that should be the end of this video.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
i'll see you in my next video.
Next week I will do probably a drama review
and then a special video on Thursday,
because i've said Thursday I'm gonna play with it.
So this time is gonna be something
still related to dramaland and what I like,
but not necessarily 100%.
Anyway, i'll see you then.
Please take care live long and happy drama watching.