No Boundary / Yuzhao Ling Season 1 玉昭令 stars Zhang Yishang as Duan Mucui, a deity who has set up a sect in the mortal world to catch the demons and prevent them from remaining in the mortal world. Darren Chen costars as royal guard Zhan Yan and the heroine’s love interest.
Based on Weiyu’s Fantasies in Kaifeng, the drama should be available with English subs on iQ / iQiyi app.
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Sword Snow Stride has released stills of its supporting cast. The wuxia drama stars Zhang Ruoyun as a martial arts hero turned general and Li Gengxi as his slave (and maybe love interest?). Costars include Hu Jun, Zhang Tian’ai, Li Chun, Dong Jie and more.
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Posters, stills, and photoshoots that caught out eyes this week. What caught yours?
Writer-director Chen Sicheng has grand plans to create his own Detective Chinatown Universe, and the web drama is his first attempt at bringing the series out of cinema and onto the small screen.
The 12 episode web drama comes from Sam Quah, the director of well-received crime thriller Sheep Without a Shepherd and releases 1 episode a day every Wed-Sat beginning today.
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When you underpay the costume design team of Game of Thrones and get recycled looks.
Despite sounding like a Games of Thrones fanboy’s expensive money-laundering scheme initially, the latest trailer for fantasy epic Asura 阿修罗 actually has me sold on watching Wu Lei and Daenerys Zhang Yishang falling in love and saving the world. The CGI is great compared to other recent fantasy films, the music is on point, and the trailer makes it seem like it potentially has a plot. The film is set for a summer 2018 release and co-stars Tony Leung and Carina Lau as the antagonists.
Luo Jin and Zheng Shuang’s new modern romance drama My Story For You (previously known as Love the Whole World) has released past and present character posters for its main cast.