What To Watch 2022: Asian Excellence In TV

By Brent Furdyk. 9 May 2022 4:16 PM

In celebration of Asian Heritage Month, here’s a sampling of some new and upcoming TV series from various parts of Asia, ranging from a hit zombie series to a multigenerational immigrant saga.

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'Pachinko'
Apple TV+
An epic multigenerational saga,
"Pachinko" journeys between Korea, Japan and America to tell an unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning — and was recently renewed for a second season.

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'Snowdrop'
Disney+
When a blood-soaked man bursts into the dormitory of a women’s university in Seoul, Eun Yeong-ro will go against her better judgement and risk being expelled to hide the man from his attackers and tend to his wounds. Unbeknownst to Yeong-ro, the man has a harrowing secret that threatens to put her friends’ and family’s safety at risk, and the two young lovers will have to work together to overcome the obstacles in this South Korean drama set in 1987.

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'Juvenile Justice'
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When an elite South Korean judge is appointed to a juvenile court, she finds her initial dislike of young people eventually eroding as she comes to understand society's role in juvenile crime.

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'All Of Us Are Dead'
Yang Hae-sung/Netflix © 2021
In the vein of "The Walking Dead" comes this horror thriller from South Korea in a high school is ground zero for a zombie apocalypse.

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'Mumbai Diaries: 26/11'
Prime Video
This gripping medical drama is set against the backdrop of the unforgettable night that also united the city when Mumbai was hit by a series of terrorist attacks in 2008. The series is an account of events that unfold in the Emergency Room of a government hospital, while exploring the challenges faced by the medical staff at the hospital other first responders across Mumbai as they confront a crisis of immense magnitude.
'The Silent Sea'
Netflix
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'Dr. Brain'
Netflix
In this thriller, follows a brilliant brain scientist (LEE Sun-kyun) suffers a horrific personal tragedy when his family falls victim to a mysterious accident. Desperate to uncover what happened, he goes to extraordinary lengths to solve the tragic mystery by conducting “brain syncs” with the deceased in order to access their memories for clues.

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'Aranyak'
Netflix
When a foreign tourist disappears in a small Indian town, a local cop is forced to team with a big-city officer to solve the crime.

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'Tokyo Vice'
HBO Max
In this U.S.-Japan co-production, an American journalist (Ansel Elgort) who lands a job at an influential Tokyo newspaper is taken under the wing of a veteran police detective (Ken Watanabe), who helps guide him through the deadly and mysterious world of the Yakuza.

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'The Sound Of Magic'
Lim Hyo Sun/Netflix © 2022
This touching series from South Korea focuses on a young girl who was forced to grow up too fast, and Rieul, a mysterious magician who may be an adult, but wants to remain a child.

Premiere: May 6
'Farzi'
Prime Video
A small-time artist (Shahid Kapoor) working out of his grandfather’s printing press has designed the ultimate con job — a crime uniquely suited to him — and gets pulled into a murky, high-stakes world. Meanwhile, standing in his way is a fiery, unorthodox cop.

Premiere: TBA

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