Hello, welcome to another video from AvenueX looking at chinese dramaland in the past week and let's get right into it.
Let's first talk about dramas that will go live very soon, first on May 8
We have a contemporary romantic drama that will go on Youku and satellite television at the same time,
called Tian Xiao Jie Yu Leng Xian Sheng, English title Sweet and Cold,
and it's led by Wang Ziwen and Jin Han
Judging by the trailer, it seems to be a rather standard, contemporary, big metropolis setting
2 young people romantic story with a bit comedy element in it.
Personally, i'm not sure if I will have time to check that one out,
but then the next one I probably will for sure just take a peek at it and see
in comparison to the about to finish drama on the same platform,
whether it's gonna perform better,
which is on the 10th another fantasy period idol drama is gonna go live on Youku,
Hu Xin, Back from the Brink a drama that i've talked way too many times on my channel
led by Hou Minghao and Zhou Ye
They have released official new materials, posters, trailers during this week.
Youku definitely wants to push onward on the fantasy idol drama button.
Don't know though how well that's gonna work after the bloodbath we've seen
in the whole drama promotion-land in the last month
circling around the drama Till the End of The Moon
If you in any way uses chinese social media and actually look at entertainment gossips and stuff related to dramaland
oh there's no avoidance of the amount of drama that has happened surrounding
the airing of TTEOTM, it truly is the most epic dramatic drama outside of the drama itself.
In this genre that i've seen in, at least last 3years, maybe even more.
And honestly I know if I wanna make further video on that, it's gonna get a lot of clicks
and turns into a lot of ad money, but I don't want to step into this mess at all.
It's already crazy in china, so I wanna just put that out on international platforms even more
better that you focus your energy on your three dimensional life.
Sorry i'm going off track just because it's the same platform and it's same genre drama and and it's following.
So for the coming on very soon Back from the Brink
one lucky thing for this drama may be as long as it can do a little bit better
in every department of a drama making, then it will be safe.
It's the best time for Hu Xin to come out.
Then we do have a drama that hasn't announced when it's gonna go live,
but maybe very soon, and when it goes live, I probably will definitely go and check it out.
It is an iqiyi contemporary drama called Wai Po de Xin Shi Ji
English Title, direction translation, Grandma's New World,
contemporary comedy focusing on the grandma of the family.
And it's mostly gonna be between the 3 generations of women, I believe
the grandma, the mom and the daughter.
Judging by the trailer, it's a really lighthearted and pretty filled with good actresses drama.
So fingers crossed it's gonna be a good one and it's led by Yan Ni, Zhang Yao, Deng Enxi
Yan Ni, doesn't need more introduction.
She's been around forever in chinese dramaland
ow she's playing a grandma, she's definitely not at that age yet.
But if you age her correctly, she can definitely pull it off.
Zhang Yao, a really good actress who's been playing a lot of supporting roles in a lot of dramas in recent years.
And and this time she probably will take on a more important role than before.
So fingers crossed she delivers great performance.
Then the daughter generation is Deng Enxi
She's a really pretty talented actress, very young,
and she has already been in quite a few different films and televisions in the last couple of years,
another hopeful of her generations, fingers crossed this drama will go live very soon.
And when it happens, i'll definitely check it out, If it's good, i'll let you know.
Then last week we talked about the weird promotion thing for Wu Geng Ji
this week official announcement of wrapping.
So they have finished shooting and they released a set of new posters of the main characters.
They haven't yet done last time.
I don't know who is the genius who had the idea of making the posters looking in this style.
I put it on screen and you go and judge it yourself.
It makes everybody looks like they're dead, first the black and white color.
It just doesn't work really well with the other wise other things are in color design
and then just the way it's photoshopped, it makes everybody looks like they're dead.
I don't quite know what happened with the design of things, but it looks bad.
Then we have a couple of other news on other dramas do different stages of production.
First one we have a drama that is pretty much decided it's gonna start shooting in June,
so we still have a month to go, but because the lead actors it's already like being talked about.
It is a drama called Cheng Huan Ji,t Story of Joy,
and it's a contemporary drama based on an existing novel written by a rather famous novel writer.
It's about a girl's years of struggle as a very ordinary person growing from a very common background family,
working her way up, going to good schools and then graduating and work hard.
And sort of that life story of a girl, it's gonna be led by Yang Zi and Xu Kai.
In this case, first is i'm curious to see if eventually Xu Kai is still gonna use his own voice or get dubbed.
The other thing is, i'm just curious to see who is going to pull the other person down
or pull the other person up.
Let's see, you know it's still a month way before they even start shooting.
Realistically, we're not gonna see this drama until next year.
Then we have a project that is a confirmation that they have just started rolling, shooting on set.
And it is the contemporary drama we've talked about about 2 weeks ago.
Xiao Ri Zi, the Shanghai setting contemporary drama about a young couple who
both moved from other places to Shanghai and struggle to make their life
led by Chen Xiao and Tong Yao, since they've just started shooting
next year we're gonna see this drama.
Then for the rest of this video, it's gonna be talking about a couple of dramas that are on.
Youku's list of dramas to air this year. Some of them may even show up in may,
and then some of them later this year,
all of them probably have some already potential audience waiting for them.
So i'm gonna go through them one by one
Number one is a drama called Hou lang, English title Gen Z,
and it's a contemporary drama led by Zhao Lusi, Luo Yizhou, Zhang Meng, WU Gang
Clearly you can tell by the cast, it's the young generation and older generation story
based on the trailer they've released this week.
It is a story about the young generation of people who have their own ideas about life,
get into the situation where there are also family heritage-wise,
sort of the destined heritage carry on person, in this case of chinese medicine
a pretty classic story type.
We shall see when this drama is gonna air and then how they're gonna do the
chinese medicine thing, because it's a hot topic actually on china's internet
about chinese medicine, people fight to death over this topic.
So once this drama comes out the people who are already interested
in the whole argument of chinese medicine, is gonna have another material to latch on.
Then the next one since we're already talking about a drama that's led by Zhao Lusi,
might as well just jump to the next one.
Also a youku drama also Zhao Lusi led, and they have just released
their first trailer during this week, which is the drama since day one of its shooting
have been followed by paparazzi like crazy Tou Tou Cang Bu Zhu,
based on the existing novel, Hidden Lov, led by Chen Zheyuan, and Zhao Lusi
contemporary 20 or so 24 episode romantic drama, in the original story.
It is a little bit ~~ because I think the female lead was not an adult yet when the story starts
don't know if in the drama's case they're gonna change things up a little bit.
Just for censorship sake.
So for the people who really want to watch Zhao Lusi's drama,
you have at least two contemporary dramas both on Youku taht will come out.
This year, not sure exactly when but at least it's foreseeable.
Then we also have a Youku drama that released its first trailer this week that looks pretty interesting.
It is called Kuang Ye Zhi Jing, doesn't have an english title yet,
not even on drama list. It's very flying under the radar,
but it's an interesting topic drama, anti fraud, drama,
focusing on the current rampant fraud thing that you can get.
I mean everywhere, every week I get a call on my phone ,
telling me like I need to submit some kind of thing to this or i'll get penalty.
Sometimes embassy calling me, sometimes ups calling me, sometimes amazon calling me, and it's all fraud.
and yeah well this time it's the chinese focused story.
The chinese title actually doesn't suggest the fraud at all.
It literally means the place where it's empty wild field,
the thing that makes it look pretty interesting and sexy is first the trailer style looks real well made.
It reminds you of Detective Chinatown.
The other reason I think it reminds me of Detective Chinatown is one of the lead actor is Xiao Yang
pretty good actor and who was in detective chinatown series and the other lead is Luo Jin
So acting department wise I don't worry about the ability of the two males leading it.
And based on the trailer, at least it will be a very sexy and gritty drama.
Then the female lead of this drama is Zhang Huiwen, Didn't see that coming,
but now I am really intrigued, I think ever since Nirvana in Fire 2
She really hasn't gotten even one good role and it's been 6 years now.
So if it's a good drama, then i'm more than happy to see it happening.
Then the final one among the dramas that Youku have talked about that will come out later this year.
This one I probably am most interested in
it is called Yi Ren Zhi Xia, based on an anime also called yi ren zhi xia,
but they changed one character in the naming.
So now this name means strange person, unusual person, and under unusual person,
don't worry about the chinese title, English title is The Outcast
kind of made it more clear about what it is.
Think about it as Heroes, the chinese version people have super powers.
Strange abilities depends on how they're gonna explain it away
why people can play fireballs and jump through time loops and having unusual strength.
Basically this is a supernatural power contemporary drama,
a little bit manga and anime like story and it's led by Peng Yuchang, Hou Minghao, Wang Yinglu, Wang Xueqi, Bi Wenjun
So some of the names definitely will be very familiar to my audiences
and then looking at the trailer, pretty sexy and interesting
and even one main character constantly, I think she always speaks dialect
and it's my regional dialect, not exactly Chongqing accent,
but probably in the Sichuan region. She looks so cool,
she has a knife and she just chops people up without having any facial expression.
And the other thing that's cool about the drama and make me kind of think
it may be a small black horse, in chinese term, means something you don't expect to get really popular.
Did get popular thing, is the director is Xu Hongyu,
that director, do you still remember of Crossfire?
Lu Han and Wu Lei's gaming and time travel story
I still think it's one of the best dramas.
Lu Han and Wu Lei have been, for both of them as actors, been in
directed by this director, who knows very well how to pace stories, use cameras, editing style.
And you can almost see that already in the trailer of Yi Ren Zhi Xia, The Outcast
So this is my hopeful drama, for Youku platform in the slightly fantasy type
of genre drama, contemporary setting this year.
It's a lot of words to condition this sentence,
but you know what I mean
Also Peng Yuchang lost a lot of weight for this drama.
He even got his 6 pack back, which is ~~~
so that's about it, everything i've managed to catch during this week on chinese dramaland
Thank you for watching AvenueX, I'll see you in my next video,
meanwhile live long and happy drama watching.