Name That Drama: Sacrificing mothers and bad sisters
by javabeans
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- Now that’s motherly sacrifice
So I watched this drama back around 1999-2001. It’s about this woman whose husband had a mistress, and this mistress gave birth the same day the wife gave birth to her son. The mistress’s child died shortly though, and so the husband basically stole his wife’s baby and pretended that it was the mistress’s child. Then there were screenshots of the wife going to the husband/mistress’s place and banging on the door to see her child.
Twenty some years pass and the son grows up. Then one day he gets kidnapped and somehow his birth mother gets kidnapped with him. They eventually get saved, and she somehow knows it’s her son. Then the next thing I remember is that the son gets married, and HIS wife had a miscarriage, and goes a little crazy. She cradles this teddy bear thinking it’s her miscarried child, and the son gets in some kind of fight with her and accidentally stabs and kills her. His birth mother was for some reason around the house during that incident, and she tells her son to run away while she cleans off the knife and takes the blame for killing her son’s wife. She goes to jail and gets bullied by this crew of female felons, but then they end up becoming friends in the end.
- Name-stealing sister
I have very little memory of this drama but there were two sisters, the younger one may be adopted or they were stepsisters. One day, when they were younger, the younger sister was about to get hit on the knuckles by the teacher, but a rich boy runs in and stops the teacher. He grabs the girl’s hand and runs out and then he gives her some sort of badge. I don’t remember what happened next but later he had to leave and he asked the older sister what that girl’s name was, but she said her own name instead of her sister’s. So when later in the future when they are grown up, the guy comes looking for the younger sister with only her name. He thinks it’s the older sister but later he realizes it’s the younger sister because of her kind heart and later he sees the badge. Please help!
- Tummy trouble
I’m pretty sure this drama is not very old, I think it aired within the last few years. I remember one scene, and at this point I think the main characters have met at least once before, but they don’t know each other that well. They’re outside somewhere and have coincidentally met, and the female lead is having stomach trouble, and she starts squatting and wailing in pain, and the male lead starts going ohhh ohhhh ohhhhh and freaking out, and he piggybacks her and runs off while she’s still wailing. I guess they’re going to find a toilet, lol.
Please help!
- An old-school K-drama
It is ridiculous how I know both actors and actress but can’t find the name of the drama. Or I think I remember the actor and actress wrong.
Anyway, this drama was in the early 2000s. The actor is Ryu Shi-won and the actress is Choi Ji-woo in my memory. I looked it up and the only drama they were ever in together is Beautiful Days. But I don’t think that is the drama I want.
The plot: The female lead is poor and she is in high school. She always does homework and tests for the female antagonist so that her family will get help financially and be allowed to live in the basement, I think. The antagonist is in love with our male lead. But the male lead likes the heroine. I think the two met each other for the first time when he almost hit her with his car (not sure about this). I remember that the antagonist hair’s reaches her shoulder and the hair was black and straight.
I don’t know how accurate this is because I don’t remember very well. But if anyone can tell me something I will appreciate it.
- Don’t gamble, kiddos
I’ve been searching for the title for ages, ever since I saw a bit of it as a young child, but have never been able to find it. There’s a drama or movie (I think it was a movie) and it involved a girl whose father was a gambler. At the end of the film the father is gambling and when it goes wrong, he gets shot in the head (the ears, specifically) and becomes brain-dead. In the end he dies, and the female lead visits his grave along with her husband and daughter.
- Lost sister
Hi! I was wondering if anyone can help me find this drama that I remember watching with my family a long time ago. Anyways, the story goes like this:
A couple, for one reason or another, is unable to have a biological child so they go and adopt a little girl. They loved the adopted child until, through some miracle, the mother was able to conceive a child. After that, the mother clearly treated her two children differently, favoring the younger biological daughter over the older adopted daughter.
The adopted child’s resentment over her younger sibling grew until one day, she decided to go on a trip with her sibling. She told her younger sister that if they ever get separated, she’s suppose to stay put and wait for her to come find her. Older sister deliberately leaves her younger sister at the bus/train station.
The younger sister gets on a train (bus?) while trying to find her sister and is lost. Older sister goes home by herself and lies to her parents about how her sister disappeared.
Flash forward 15 or 20 years and the older sister is living a unhappy life. Her adopted mother never gave up the hope that she would find her daughter one day and blames the adopted daughter for her biological daughter’s disappearance. The adopted sister lived the life of luxury, since the parents were chaebols, but never received any love/approval from her mother. Meanwhile, the biological sister was raised in an orphanage and lived a simple, though not unhappy life.
The two cross paths, not knowing whom the other was. Eventually, they keep crossing paths and the older sister realizes that the girl is the sister that she deliberately abandoned all those years ago (because the older sister recognized a scar that the younger sister has due to a fireworks accident in their youth; the mother blamed the older sibling even though it wasn’t really her fault). She spends the majority of the drama trying to keep her mother from finding out that the girl that she works with is actually her biological daughter.
Sorry for the long description and thanks!
Thanks for playing, everyone — till next time!
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1 Klava
November 8, 2015 at 12:16 PM
Number 6 is without a doubt WOMEN OF THE SUN.
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mhjbk0112
November 8, 2015 at 8:31 PM
worst drama ever in my opinion. the flashbacks were killing me
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2 fishfingers_fb
November 8, 2015 at 12:16 PM
number 3 -- this probably isn't the right answer, but there's a scene like that in She Was Pretty!
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houstontwin
November 8, 2015 at 4:19 PM
There was a scene sort of like that in My Girl. Maybe that is too old.
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kbaswithneko
November 8, 2015 at 8:34 PM
I thought of this one as well. The scene where they crash the country folks' party for free food after they are stranded in the boonies. He carries her through the dark forest. Was that in My Girl?
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houstontwin
November 8, 2015 at 9:09 PM
Yes. That was the scene. He takes her to some sort of clinic on his back.
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mido
November 8, 2015 at 7:18 PM
I thought of that, joon woo and han seul
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3 Hannah
November 8, 2015 at 12:23 PM
Number 3 sounds like a scene from Marriage Not Dating, but I don't remember if the male lead actually carried her... I do remember that the female lead did have food poisoning though
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4 Cocoboo
November 8, 2015 at 12:29 PM
The first one sounds so crazy.... o__O;
#3 sounds a bit like Han Seol and Joon Woo from She Was Pretty when they were on their roadtrip... Lol
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iamdeb
November 8, 2015 at 2:20 PM
Older kdramas had some seriously intense plots...
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5 Angskeet
November 8, 2015 at 12:41 PM
Number 3 for sure is not Marriage Not Dating. In MND, he doesn't carry her. She accidentally poops in her pants, but Ki Tae doesn't do anything about it. Instead, he stepped back because of the smell.
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6 Mrs. Oh
November 8, 2015 at 12:48 PM
I haven't watched number 2, but I just looked it up a few days ago, and the summary matches. It just got added to Viki. It's called "Truth" or "honesty". Here's a link to the wiki page for it:
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Honesty
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7 Mrs. Oh
November 8, 2015 at 12:49 PM
Sorry, #4.
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8 Mrs. Oh
November 8, 2015 at 12:51 PM
Also, you were right about the actors. Ryu shi-won and choi ji woo.
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9 Kween Ramyeon
November 8, 2015 at 1:02 PM
No.3 sounds like High Kick 3: Revenge of the Short Legged...Teacher Park had a tummy ache and the gym teacher who fancied her was trying to help her. Can't remember if there was a piggy back though...
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10 Corrine
November 8, 2015 at 1:25 PM
Number 2 is a Taiwanese drama. It's called 'Green Forest, My Home'. Or you can search the Mandarin title, 绿光森林.
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mooses
November 8, 2015 at 3:37 PM
I agree. #2 is definitely Green Forest, My Home
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greenie
November 8, 2015 at 7:53 PM
yesss! I loved the OST in that one!
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11 Corrine
November 8, 2015 at 1:28 PM
Also the adopted one is actually the older sister who gave her own name..
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12 Sanchita Suman
November 8, 2015 at 2:49 PM
No 3 might be scent of a woman where she was suffering from cancer and had often abdominal breakouts!
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yuja
November 8, 2015 at 3:12 PM
I was thinking that too, haha. But I think it turned out that it was just constipation? LOL
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rubygal
November 8, 2015 at 3:51 PM
Its not scent of a woman. In scent of a woman they called an ambulance because she missed her treatment appointment only to get to the hospital and it was constipation
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13 dabbs
November 8, 2015 at 3:14 PM
#2 is definitely the taiwanese drama Green Forest, My Home / 绿光森林. It was the first tw drama i watched and oh goodness me, i can't believe it's been 10 years since that drama came out. also, it has a really fresh and green ethan ruan hahaha!
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Chanelboy loves Jackson Wang A LOT
November 8, 2015 at 10:01 PM
Muahahahah I wanted to comment about #2 but while scrolling down can't help to stop just right at your comment lolling like crazy haha. I was really crazy, like literally turn into crazy out of mind teenage girl than time watching a fresh from oven ethan ruan *:
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14 Elle Fanning
November 8, 2015 at 3:32 PM
No.3 is Flower Boy Ramen Shop ?
http://asianwiki.com/Flower_Boy_Ramen_Shop
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15 rubygal
November 8, 2015 at 3:50 PM
#3 is New Tales of a Gisaeng and that scene happened between the female lead's younger sister and her close male friend. It was not the male and female lead.
#4 is Honest. I should remember that very well. The antagonist caused an accident and blamed the female lead and this lead to the female lead revealing everything to the public
#6 is Women of the Sun. The older adopted sister was a reporter and then I remember the younger sister started taunting her about it till she attempted suicide
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Karen
November 8, 2015 at 3:59 PM
Thank you rubygal!
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houstontwin
November 8, 2015 at 4:53 PM
Isn't it funny how many dramas had men rescuing women with tummy aches!
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jane
November 8, 2015 at 10:10 PM
so awesome that you knew all this obscure dramas!
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16 Karen
November 8, 2015 at 3:57 PM
No. 6 sounded familiar and it was driving me crazy. I could see the younger versions of the sisters in a few scenes in my mind but couldn't remember the show or any of the actors.
After hours of googling and checking through the many, many dramas watched in the last few years, I've realised I was thinking of 'Rooftop Prince' which doesn't match the rest of the description at all.
I'm now going to have to check this thread constantly until some kind people share their insane drama knowledge and solve the mysteries. Especially number one, pretty sure I've never even heard of that one, let alone watched it.
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Quiet Thought
November 8, 2015 at 4:39 PM
Yeah, I remember reading about the sister and the train station in re-caps on Dramabeans not that long ago.
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17 Quiet Thought
November 8, 2015 at 4:41 PM
'Women of the Sun' it is, for #6!
"Shin Do-young is a popular TV news anchor who seemingly has it all: good looks and brains, a cushy job and a privileged upbringing. But Do-young has a deep, dark secret. She was abandoned at an orphanage at a young age, but was fortunately adopted by a nice, well-off couple who were unable to have children of their own. But to the couple's surprise, they conceived a few years after Do-young's adoption, which led to the birth of their biological daughter, Ji-young. Afraid of losing the love of her adoptive parents, the teenage Do-young abandoned her five-year-old sister at a train station . . . Twenty years later, Do-young hires a cheerful young woman named Yoon Sa-wol as her personal shopper. But Do-young's past returns to haunt her when Sa-wol is revealed to be Ji-young. When Sa-wol learns the truth, she plans her revenge by taking everything from her erstwhile sister, including the man Do-young loves."
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18 Quiet Thought
November 8, 2015 at 4:42 PM
Just further proof that, as dramas teach us, being rich is HELL in Korea!
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19 Rey..
November 8, 2015 at 4:43 PM
Does anyone know if there is a scene in Beautiful Days where the main girl gets pregnant and her boyfriend's mom or something like that paid her to get an abortion but she didn't want it. And then Ryu Shi-won told her that he'll help her raise the child. Something along the lines. It was a very old drama. She also had long hair and she always wore this head band with school uniform. The main girl was an orphan in shi won's mothers orphanage. Thanks for the help!
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Senajang
November 8, 2015 at 9:12 PM
That drama is Forever Yours -Kim Hee Sun/Ryun Si Won
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Rey..
November 9, 2015 at 10:54 PM
Thanks for the help!
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Ora
November 8, 2015 at 9:16 PM
Sounds more like Forever Yours...ugh I hated that drama. The heroine is an orphan, gets raped by second lead and gets pregnant. On top of that we have a lovely cancer scene where she is determined to keep the child and then dies and Ryu Shi Won marries her and raises the child.
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jane
November 8, 2015 at 10:13 PM
sounds totally makjang!
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pogo
November 9, 2015 at 11:58 AM
wait a minute, she dies and then he marries her? That doesn't sound right...
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Ora
November 9, 2015 at 7:14 PM
SOrry, he marries her and then she dies.
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Rey..
November 9, 2015 at 10:55 PM
Thanks for the help! The plot is makjang but my mom use to watch this show when I was younger.
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20 Banana
November 8, 2015 at 5:09 PM
Guys does anybody know this drama (or drama special or maybe movie?) : it's korean and not that old, it was horror/thriller genre, i watched the trailer a year or 2 ago and there were young people in different places and i remember that they were all stuck, like there's this specific scene where a girl and a boy are locked up in a classroom, 2 friends (boys) are stuck on a cliff, the atmosphere was dark, autmun-ish and creepy (normal for an horror i guess lol). No matter how hard i think i can't remember much but i'm sure that i saw the trailer on dramabeans and i can't find it :( i have a faint memory of seeing kim ji won in this but on her page there's no such drama. I think the cast was pretty famous, all young models/actors (well that'd hpw i remember it)
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zombie.NATION
November 8, 2015 at 6:10 PM
http://www.dramabeans.com/2013/04/teaser-and-stills-for-scary-story-2/
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gadis
November 8, 2015 at 6:11 PM
It sounds similar to White Christmas, an 8 eps drama special where several students trapped inside an elite high school because there is harsh storm. Dramabeans recapped this show here: http://www.dramabeans.com/2012/07/white-christmas-episode-1/
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21 Banana
November 8, 2015 at 5:11 PM
Ah ! And i recall seeing a group of students or college friends going a trip and they are in the same situation : they're stuck at one place ! Thanks to whoever will help
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22 Euphoria
November 8, 2015 at 7:12 PM
#3 is Famous Princesses - the male should be Lee Seung Gi
#5 is All In
#6 is Women of the Sun - Kim Jiyoung abandoned Lee Hana at a train statio n during the 1988 Olympics
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23 Hope
November 8, 2015 at 7:18 PM
No 6 is definitely "Woman of the sun" . I remember I hated the older sister for stealing the younger sister's first love whom she knew when they were both in the orphanage. Especially when he is so caring n handsome!
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24 jekom
November 8, 2015 at 8:03 PM
I do not know if the questioner got his/her answer for number 3, but I will add another drama with a scene like that - "Buzzer Beat."
It is a J-drama and the male lead is a basketball player while the female lead is a violinist. The similar scene can be found in episode three. They saw each other in a grocery store, then they drank beer in a park, and so on and so forth. However, by this scene, the two leads have encountered each other a few times already.
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sisterkiller
November 9, 2015 at 1:08 PM
omg! that's it!! i never thought to consider it was a jdrama... and i thought it was more recent than it is because i rewatched it like last year, lol. thank you! i can't believe how many suggestions there were, it's actually hilarious.
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25 carol
November 8, 2015 at 8:53 PM
#3 Modern Farmer?
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26 Ora
November 8, 2015 at 9:11 PM
#4 is Jinshil, Truth or Honesty :D Loved that drama!
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27 halfmoon
November 8, 2015 at 9:16 PM
#1 storyline sounds crazy!
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28 justanotherleo
November 8, 2015 at 9:39 PM
#1 Flaming Brothers or 纵横四海 by ATV, a Hong Kong drama I remember watching in primary school. Can't rmb about who was killed but remember the mother taking the rap and everything else mentioned. I cried watching the show. Michael Tao and Patrick Tam as the two brothers I think
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kai
November 8, 2015 at 10:46 PM
Yep! And it was Patrick's wife that got killed and his mom took the fall for it. Deanie Ip plays the mom, and she was seriously amazing. It was such a good drama but it got totally crazy at the end.
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29 Sammisam
November 8, 2015 at 11:13 PM
While it's not that recent, number three reminds me of a scene from Dal Ja's Spring. Where the female lead experiences really bad stomach pain and the male lead freaks out thinking its appendicitis but when they go to the hospital it turns out to be indigestion.
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30 Banana
November 8, 2015 at 11:36 PM
OMG ! Thanks it's scary story 2 ! May god bless you haha
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31 hikari
November 9, 2015 at 1:07 AM
i think the number 3 is drama Mask, starring Shinae and Joo Ji Hoon.. when shinae character got drunk and she threw up and happened to meet the JJH character, because JJH character had that OCD (I guess, am not so sure tho..) then he seemed like disgusted by her
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32 mido
November 9, 2015 at 1:21 AM
Can anyone help me with these two dramas, I watched them few years ago, about 3 or 4, i can't call the names and i am not sure they were korean. i really wants to watch them again. because last time friend of mine gave me after downloading, but lost those videos when my computer broken.
1. lead guy seems wealthy family, having a kind of illness(brain tumor?), fell in love with poor girl and got pregnant, but he lost memories after the operation. few years later girl lives with her child in rural area, and the lead guy goes there as lawyer or doctor, i don't remember. child also having sickness.
2. this lead actress like wooden(must be Chinese drama), she became an actress and fell in love with actor, (as i remember must be her adopted brother). and her wealthy childhood friend comes to the scene, and girl has another brother with kidney problem, and girl marries her childhood friend to save her brother, because that friend's kidney is matching to her brother.(what a rascal girl)
but i want to watch them, can some one help me, . i really want to watch them.
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kai
November 9, 2015 at 1:46 AM
#1 - Autumn's Concerto
#2 - Summer's Desire
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mido
November 9, 2015 at 2:04 AM
Thank you so much, i'm going to brows them and going to watch.:)
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fabdrama
November 9, 2015 at 7:22 AM
Oh my, is that how Summer's Desire ended?? HAAAAH I need to finish it.
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dooleygongshil
November 10, 2015 at 12:20 AM
awww autumn's concerto was one of my first taiwanese drama and its still one of my faves
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33 Ask90
November 9, 2015 at 1:48 AM
Hey midi. Answer to your question:
Both are Taiwanese dramas with
No.1 being Autumn's Concerto staring Vanness Wu and Ady An
No.2 being Summer's Desire staring Peter Ho and Barbie Hsu
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mido
November 9, 2015 at 2:05 AM
Thank you ask90.:)
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34 mist
November 9, 2015 at 3:18 AM
number 3 sounds like a scene from scent of a woman
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35 fabdrama
November 9, 2015 at 7:20 AM
I RECOGNISE ONE. #6 is Women of the Sun! With Shim Eun Kyung in the role of the younger version of the older sister. It has started my K-addiction, so never forget. :D:D
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36 informantxgirl
November 9, 2015 at 8:04 AM
I'm pretty sure someone will know this and it's been bugging me for awhile, so here goes.
It was a Chinese-language drama but there were parts in English. The female lead was living with this Canadian or American family. Their last name slips my mind, but it was very generic, like Miller or something. There was a son - Tom, I think - who went to school with the girl and he was directing some play she was in that was a Chinese play and he had some totally off interpretation about it and they had a fight about it in the car where she was like, "But it's Chinese culture. You can't see it that way."
Anyhow, I dropped in right during that fight and then later, there was a whole long sequence where the sister of the family, Ashley, decided to run away from home. She had her guitar with her. She was in the park and then 3 friends of the female lead spotted her and trailed her and called her home. The friends spoke Chinese but they spoke English to Ashley. There was also a scene in their school where the female lead and her friends dance a cheerleading routine to Britney Spears' Toxic.
The thing was on some Russian channel while I was stuck in a hotel and it had no title or anything but I was just so curious about it because of its bilingual nature. It was on one of the CCTV channels (lol, not closed-circuit TV, the station). Anyone know what it's called and where I might be able to find some information on it? Thanks ahead of time!
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37 Kov187
November 9, 2015 at 8:46 PM
Number 4 is Truth
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38 Ree
November 9, 2015 at 10:59 PM
#4 - if you know at least one of the actors you’re halfway there. Just visit mr google or wiki the actors to get the title.
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39 mozaya
November 10, 2015 at 5:45 PM
is it possible that N6 is this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Slippers ?
Been a long time since i saw it and the summary is a bit different but the theme is the same (at least what i remember of it).
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40 Bebot
February 5, 2016 at 5:47 PM
NUMBER 4 is JINSHIL (truth/honesty)
it was one of the popular korean drama before and it was one of my favorite.
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41 Antrian
August 14, 2017 at 10:18 PM
number 6 sounds familiar?
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