Chinese Dramas

Swordsman 《笑傲江湖》

No.Episodes: 56
Release: 2013
Genre: Wuxia
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Synopsis:

Swordsman is a Chinese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. The series is written and produced by Yu Zheng, and directed by Hu Yijuan, starring Wallace Huo and Yuan Shanshan in the leading roles. Shooting started on 24 March 2012 in Xiandu, Jinyun CountyLishuiZhejiang. It was aired in China on Hunan Television from 6 February to 4 March 2013.

Cast
  • Wallace Huo as Linghu Chong / Yang Lianting
  • Yuan Shanshan as Ren Yingying / Xuexin
    • Jiang Yiyi as young Ren Yingying
  • Joe Chen as Dongfang Bubai
  • Yang Rong as Yue Lingshan
  • Chen Xiao as Lin Pingzhi / Lin Yuantu
  • Deng Sha as Yilin
  • Howie Huang as Yue Buqun
    • Wu Junyu as young Yue Buqun
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Xuan Yuan Sword: Scar Of Sky 
No.Episodes: 35
Release: 2012
Genre: Romantic Wuxia Fantasy Adventure 
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Synopsis:

This centers around two descendants, Yuwen Tuo and Chen Jing Chou, and their plans to recover the Northern Zhou and Chen Dynasties, their respective heritages, by finding several mystical and powerful artifacts. These artifacts also help in closing up the doorway that demons use to enter and wreak havoc in the mortal world. An unlikely friendship forms, yet they are fated to be enemies. Chen Jing Chou's adventures lead him to befriend a lot of different people, such as Yu Xiao Xue and Taba Yu'er, while Yuwen Tuo meets Dugu Ningke, a supposedly spoiled princess with a mysterious heritage. Their adventures are filled with misunderstandings and emotional entanglements. In the end, will they sacrifice their personal loves for the greater good, and seal up the rift in time?

Cast
  • Hu Ge as Yuwen Tuo / Sword Fanatic
    • Zhang Yijie as Yuwen Tuo (child)
  • Cecilia Liu as Taba Yu'er
    • Yuan Xue'er as Taba Yu'er (child)
  • Tiffany Tang as Dugu Ningke
    • Chai Wei as Dugu Ningke (child)
  • Jiang Jingfu as Chen Jingchou
    • Cui Bo as Chen Jingchou (child)
  • Lin Gengxin as Zhang Lie
    • Jiang He as Zhang Lie (child)
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Strange Hero Yi Zhi Mei


No.Episodes: 30
Release: 2011
Genre: Wuxia Adventure
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Synopsis:

Li Ge Xiao is skilled in martial arts and has the brains to match. At one point, he was a high ranking Marshal with great law enforcement authority, but after his enemy framed him and executed his family, he became a fugitive. He comes out of hiding years later to help a former colleague recover stolen gold for disaster relief. He forms a bandit group known as "Yi Zhi Mei" with his new partners, thief Yan San Niang, grafter He Xiao Mei, and muscle Chai Hu, that robs the rich and the corrupted and gives to the poor and the helpless.

Cast
  • Wallace Huo as Li Ge Xiao
  • Liu Shi Shi as Yan San Niang
    • Wang Jia Hui as child Yan San Niang
  • Ma Tian Yu as He Xiao Mei
  • Shi Yan Neng as Chai Hu
  • Liu Kai Chi as Zheng Dong Liu
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Three Kingdoms

No.Episodes: 95
Release: 2010
Genre: Historical Strategist War
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Synopsis:

Chinese television series based on the events in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. The plot is based on Luo Guanzhong's classical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms, and other related stories.

Cast
  • Chen Jian Bin as Cao Cao
  • Yu He Wei as Liu Bei
  • Zhang Bo as Sun Quan
  • Lu Yi as Zhu Ge Liang
  • Nie Yuan as Zhao Yun
  • Yu Rong Guang as Guan Yu
  • Ruby Lin as Sun Shang Xiang
  • Victor Huang as Zhou Yu
  • Chen Hao as Diao Chan
  • Peter Ho as Lu Bu
  • Ni Da Hong as Si Ma Yi
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Chinese Paladin 3
No.Episodes: 37
Release: 2009
Genre: Romantic Wuxia Fantasy Adventure 
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Synopsis:

Chinese Paladin 3 is a Chinese television series adapted from the video game of the same title, and, because of an added time travel concept allowing the main protagonist from Chinese Paladin (2005) to appear in the setting decades before the events of the first, serves as an interquel to both. It was first released on television stations in mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore in 2009.Chinese Paladin 2 was not filmed because the producers felt that the third game had a much stronger story than the second.

Cast
  • Hu Ge as Jing Tian / Long Yang / Fei Peng / Li Xiao Yao (19)
  • Yang Mi as Tang Xue Jian / Xi Yao (18)
  • Wallace Huo as Xu Chang Qing / Gu Liu Fang / Lin Ye Ping (27)
  • Liu Shi Shi as Long Kui (1000)
  • Tang Yan as Zi Xuan (200)
  • Jerry Huang as Chong Lou
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The Legend of the Condor Heroes

No.Episodes: 50
Release: 2008
Genre: Romantic Comedy Wuxia Fantasy Adventure 
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Synopsis:

When their husbands were killed by the Song army, two pregnant women found safe haven in foreign lands. Li Ping gave birth to Guo Jing, a sturdy but blockheaded young man who roamed the Mongolian prairie with the family of Temujin. Bao Xi Ruo gave birth to Yang Kang, a smart and crafty young man who became the son of Wanyan Hong Lie, a successor of the Jin empire. When a pact between their martial arts masters brought them together and the truth behind their fathers' deaths was revealed, one found martial arts enlightenment and a cause greater than his own while the other descended into darkness and destroyed everything and everyone around him.

Cast
  • Hu Ge as Guo Jing
  • Ariel Lin as Huang Rong
  • Yuan Hong as Yang Kang (Wanyan Kang)
  • Liu Shi Shi as Mu Nian Ci

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The Myth

No.Episodes: 50
Release: 2010
Genre: Romantic Time-Travel Fantasy Historical

Synopsis:

Yi Xiaochuan finds a tiger pendant by coincidence and the pendant sears a mark onto his chest when he wears it on his neck. Meanwhile, Xiaochuan's elder brother, Yi Dachuan, discovers a 2,000-year-old treasure box at an excavation site. Xiaochuan unlocks the box with his pendant and opens a time portal by accident. Unknown to everyone else, he is transported back in time to the Qin Dynasty together with Gao Yao, his girlfriend's brother.
Back in history, Xiaochuan meets the historical figures Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, and becomes sworn brothers with them. He encounters the Qin general Meng Tian, who mistakes him for his long-lost younger brother Meng Yi, because the mark of the pendant belongs to only members of the Meng clan. Xiaochuan also meets Princess Yushu of the tribal kingdom Tu'an, and she becomes the new love of his life. However, the lovers are unable to be together, as Yushu has become the Qin emperor's concubine in exchange for peace between the Qin Empire and Tu'an. Xiaochuan is unwilling to give up and he meets Yushu in secret inside the palace.

Cast
  • Hu Ge as Yi Xiaochuan
  • Chang Shih as Gao Yao
  • Bai Bing as Yushu
  • Zhang Meng as Gao Lan
  • Ren Quan as Yi Dachuan
  • Tan Kai as Xiang Yu

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The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber

No.Episodes: 40
Release: 2009
Genre: Romantic Wuxia 

Synopsis:

The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber is a Chinese television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. It is a final instalment of a trilogy produced by Zhang Jizhong, preceded by The Legend of the Condor Heroes (2003) and The Return of the Condor Heroes (2006). Unlike most of the previous adaptations, this remake is the first to be primarily based on the third edition of the novel. The series was first broadcast on Wenzhou TV in China in October 2009.

Cast
  • Deng Chao as Zhang Wuji
    • Shi Lei as young Zhang Wuji
  • Ady An as Zhao Min
  • Liu Jing as Zhou Zhiruo
    • Guo Bailu as young Zhou Zhiruo
  • He Zhuoyan as Xiaozhao
  • Zhang Meng as Yin Li / Zhu'er
    • Jiang Yiyi as young Yin Li
  • Lu Chen as Yang Buhui
    • Ivy Lu as young Yang Buhui
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