[Beanie Recs] More Korea/Japan collabs, please
by DB Staff
Ahoy, Beanies! It’s time to gather your collective genius for a recommendation series that features you and your drama knowledge. We’ll drop a drama conundrum and leave it up to you to provide a drama rec, and the appropriate rationale behind it, be it long or short.
I’ve got my eye on the upcoming drama Hatsukoi DOGs, partially because I heart Na In-woo, but mostly because I’ve realized I’m really loving the Korea/Japan crossovers. Last year’s What Comes After Love was especially moving to me with the Tokyo/Seoul timelines, the mixed-language dialogue, and all the cultural conundrums. Since Hatsukoi DOGs won’t be out until July, anyone got recs for the best K-dramas featuring Japanese actors (or vice versa) to hold me over until then?
Have a very particular drama itch that needs scratching? In need of a Beanie Rec? Email us at hello @ dramabeans.com and we’ll feature your topic in a future post.
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1 Kurama
May 22, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Personally, I'm excited for Can This Love Be Translated? with Sota Fukushi joining Kdrama world and Romantics Anonymous with Shun Oguri and Han Hyo-joo \o/
Otherwise, lastly there was Eyes Love You with Chae Jong Hyeop in a Jdrama.
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spazmo
May 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
oguri shun!!!!!!!
*finger hearts*
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Kurama
May 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
One of my first Japanese crushes!
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spazmo
May 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
i even watched all of Gintama because he looked so good in the white wig...
: D
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2 Reply1988 - 🍊Mother Bean🍊
May 22, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Pachinko seasons one and two.
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3 Jezz
May 22, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Friends (2002) (starring Won Bin) (miniseries, 4 episodes) (this miniseries also commemorated that yr.'s World Cup in South Korea and Japan)
Passing Rain (2002) (another miniseries, only 2eps., released that same year) (starring Ji Jin-hee)
Star's Echo (2004) (starring Jo Hyun-jae) (another miniseries with only two episodes) (that was Jo Hyun-jae(!) before 49 Days, Yong-pal, Let Me Introduce Her and even last yr.'s Chicken Nugget as what I noticed on his Asianwiki page)
The Secret Message (2015) (starring TOP)
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4 panshel
May 22, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I've never seen it, but since it's been in the news because of Mei Nagano's cheating scandal, J-drama News Anchor stars Korean actor Kim Mu-jun (My Dearest, Love All Play, Nevertheless).
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5 Isa is always time travelling
May 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
In the recent k-drama The art of Negotiation there are a pair of episodes which take place in Japan, and there are some main characters played by Japanese actors.
In Flower Boy Next Door one of the "flower boys" is a Japanese actor (Mizuta Kouki), but all the series takes place in Korea.
Song of the Bandits and The Nokdu Flower have some Japanese actors too, because of the historic period.
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6 Dylan [My Dearest Undercover Potato]
May 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
You might like The Monster Within. No Korean actors, but it is a Jdrama mystery romance produced and directed by Koreans, so it has all the usual kdrama tropes.
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7 technicat
May 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I enjoyed 99 Days with a Superstar.
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Kurama
May 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Oh yeah, me too! I like Hidetoshi Nishijima 🥰
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technicat
May 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I've only seen him in that show and Creepy (totally different!)
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8 zindigo
May 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Ok Taecyeon is doing a J-crossover this year with the short BL drama Soul Mate. It will be released on Netflix in August.
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