Name That Drama: Traffic disruption, fancy hair chopsticks, and bananas

by HeadsNo2

 
As always, feel free to email us your questions and requests for future Name That Drama installments.
 

1. This one seems tough
   

   I saw this drama in 2003, but I am not sure if it was new at the time or not. It was being shown in Uzbekistan.

   The two main female characters looked exactly alike, though I don’t know if that was a coincidence or if they were twins that had been separated. One was a very sweet, hardworking person. The other was an actress who was shown to have gone astray (drinking, too many men, so on).

   The “good” one liked a movie star or pop star or something like that. The other liked a businessman, I think.

   I only saw part of it and it was dubbed into a language I didn’t speak. I have always wondered both what was actually going on and how it ended. It would be great to finally know what it was!

    

2. Unless it’s a sageuk, there will always be aimless driving
   

   Beanies, please help me find this drama.

   I remember this one scene where the hero was upset, or maybe brooding about something, and he drove his car around and around this wide, straight street at night. (I’m pretty sure he did a lot of abrupt and possibly illegal u-turns.) Because he was disrupting traffic, a cop stopped him and asked whether he lost his way. After that, he made up his mind and went to wherever he decided to go.

    

3. Probably poor? How about always poor
   

   Hi, I would like to get some help with finding the title of this drama.

   The main guy is a singer or some kind of a famous star, and the female lead is just an average girl (probably poor). I only remember one scene: The guy is singing (I think it’s his concert) and the girl is watching him with his other fans. She stays in front of the crowd, just behind the barriers. It’s seems that the guy sings the song for her.

   Everything happens outside. I don’t think he was on the stage, it seemed more like he was standing on the same level as the girl. It must have been winter since everyone seemed to have warm clothes, and it was definitely snowing in that scene. I think it’s a Korean or Taiwanese series. It kind of reminds me of the scene from Star in My Heart but it wasn’t that grand and big. I know it’s very vague but I hope some will recognize the drama.

    

4. Aw, we have a young fanatic! Let’s give her a warm welcome and find this drama
   

   Hi, I’m a thirteen-year-old drama fanatic. (I started young! Like, since I was five.) And I need help finding this thing, so please help this marshmallow! Thank you!

   I watched this a year or two ago, but it could’ve been older than that. It’s kind of old-fashioned. They wear weird hats and the guys wear long flowing colorful clothes and the girls have their hair up with these fancy chopsticks. I’m not sure if it’s a drama or movie, and although I think it’s a Korean thing, it could’ve been Chinese or Japanese. I don’t have much to go on, but here it goes!

   So there’s this girl (isn’t there always?) and she’s kind of a tomboy, and I think she can fight well. I think there was this female monk that taught her.

   And then there’s this stupid guy (isn’t there always?) that wants to woo her, so he there, and I’m pretty sure he practically demands to marry her. So they strike a deal or something, and they fight. If he wins, he gets to come back three months(?) later to marry her, but if she wins, he leaves her alone (I think there was more to the deal though). I don’t know who wins. (Sorry!)

   Then there this other guy (isn’t there always?), and Guy #2 and Fighter Girl’s parents are friends (I think Fighter Girl’s mom is dead. And she has this female cousin). I think Fighter Girl’s Dad wants Fighter Girl to marry Guy #2, and I also think he dislikes Stupid Guy. And I also think Guy #2 is kind of scared of Fighter Girl. But I also think he warms up to her later on. There was also a sword-slashing fight scene going on in something like a temple(?) or old building.

    

5. Impossible? Never. Beanies, assemble!
   

   This has gotta be the most random and vague scene that I don’t even think is worth looking for, but it has really bothered me for the last four years. I just can’t remember which drama this scene came from. I thought I would eventually get over it as time passed, but even after four years, this scene is still bothering me because I absolutely cannot remember which drama this scene came from and who the actors were.

   This is a vague description of the scene that I remember:
   This guy was sitting in front of a convenience store in the countryside. He had bought bananas from the convenience store, and he’s sitting out in front by this tree to eat them. This old man comes up and sits next to him (I think they knew each other?), and the guy offers a banana to the old man. The old man says no and tells him to save it for himself. They talked some more after that, but I don’t remember anything else besides the banana conversation.

   The guy in my description is the main character of the drama, and he’s poor. That’s all I remember about him. This drama could be eight years old or even older. I can’t even remember if it’s Taiwanese or Korean, but I’m leaning more towards it being a Korean drama. Sorry, I’ve watched way too many dramas, so my memory is a big mess. I know it’s impossible for anyone to find this scene, but who knows.

    

Thanks for playing, everyone — till next time!

 
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