Hood for the Asian series: How are dramas different from Lacchanes and why they are so popular?

In recent years, the national cinema has attracted more and more attention from the mainstream of the Hollywood to the background of the tiredness of the audience. If the Russians were happy to watch the Indian and Brazilian cinema during the Soviet periods, now the flag race has now passed into the Turkish series and Korean drama. This did not happen immediately: the audience had to get used to another culture.

What is the difference between the dramas of South Korea, China and Japan? And what is the reason for the interest in Lacrans? What species and lands are popular in every country?

They prepared a short guide for Asian Cinema to put all the points on “I”.

What is the difference between the dramas of South Korea, China and Japan?

South Korea

Why did the audience like Korean dramas? According to the surveys, the main reason is that violence and lack of rude. In most cases, the first kiss of the screen heroes takes place in the last chapters, the audience is waiting for him with fear. The fights of the characters are short -lived: they literally pass through the series. And of course, when the obstacles stand in front of the lovers, everything ends well. We add that the action takes place in an incredibly aesthetic environment with beautiful actors. The standard timing of the Korean drama is 16-20 sections of 40 minutes each.

Another reason: lack of romance. The socio-economic situation in South Korea does not allow young people to start relationships, because they almost always perform (by the way, the process is about all Asia). Due to high housing prices, the majority live with parents, and even when money appears, many do not rush to leave the general home. Since the Korean society remains traditional, the first relationships in many years take place in 30 years. And this is reflected in art. For example, “What happened to the Secretary?” The main character wants to get out of a prestigious position, because he has no time for his personal life, and his boss (without experience in relationships) decides to learn, but fall in love with him. The younger generation also complains about the lack of romance in daily life.

In the West, revenge, survival games, and usually everything is sad. For example, the “Aloe Heart” drama turned out to be very successful among Europe, including the Russian, the audience, but received a low score between the Koreans who could not agree with a sad end.

Mysticism and romantic fantasy continue to be popular that the main character is a wolf fox as the bride of the demon or the legend of Kumiho, as in Tokkebi. With the physical death of the hero, the story does not end, because the soul can be reborn in another body and lovers will meet again years later.

Previously, South Korean cinema has mainly published historical dramas about the palace intrigues, but today it can boast of various species. For example, the graph of the “mouse” detective depends on a scientist to find a psychopathy gene and a serial killer. Interestingly, they are not afraid to shoot in Korea and stories about politics. For example, great success was based on the real history of the “Love Landing” drama about the relationship between a South Korean girl and a North Korean soldier. Moreover, many people from North Korea were shown in a pleasant and sincere way, while in South Korea, he dreamed of taking the greedy relatives of the hero to their hands.

Japan

It is interesting that the concept of “Drama çıkan came from Japan as the deterioration of the word“ drama ,, but later began to determine content with Asia’s characteristic acting and land returns. Japanese dramas are similar to Korean, but are mostly focused on daily life. Main issues: Social inequality, bullying in schools, dependence on games. Supporting office novels are also popular here, but mysticism and fantasy are not particularly in demand. The speed of the narrative is slower and standard timing is 40 minutes of 8-12 sections. Unlike Korea, Japan rarely makes export content.

In Korean dramas, if the heroes try to integrate into society, the Japanese contrast themselves with the society and try to solve internal conflict. Therefore, the parcels differ in psychologists. Fasting characters are very popular. For example, in the “Alice on the border” drama, the unemployed play Arisa is looking at a strange greetings in the live area of ​​Sibuya, where he was suddenly abandoned, and themselves are drawn to mortal survival games. The series was published on the “Kalmar’s Game ve and because it tries to solve the main character’s game master plan, but what is at some point is only a mental sick person’s nonsense.

Chinese

Chinese dramas or C-drama varies in terms of scale and high production costs. It is necessary to adjust that the total timing of the series is more than 100 sections that last 50 minutes. Interestingly, the Chinese themselves get tired of watching so many episodes and put dramas to rewind. Film studios are not made for the sake of art, but by this kind of endless series, they just want to get as much money from advertising integrations as much as possible. Therefore, since 2020, the Chinese Radio and Television Directorate took measures and reduced the time of new drama to 40 sections.

Aesthetically, Chinese dramas are different from the brightness of the frame, from the tragic endings (and after these 100 episodes!), And a large number of war scenes between the actors unrealistic “whitening” makeup. Typically, Chinese directors do not make projects for export, because the domestic market is quite profitable.

Themes do not differ in a variety of diversity. As a rule, they are drama about mysticism, fantasy, palace intrigues and melodramas. Recently, E -Sports was a popular subject that was declared as a national sport in PRC, as “Cybercrash: in love with your smile”, “forward, kalamar!”, “King’s avatar”, “Cross -fire” and others dramas.

It also has its own unique types: Usya (real coffee man was developed in the world of martial arts), sitting (hero-core fictional ancient China) and Xuanhuan (action takes place in a fantastic world with Western folklore elements).

Thailand

Laccons, as is called the Thai series, only gains popularity. On average, Lacorn consists of 15-20 sections of 60-90 minutes. Scenario writers from Thailand do not use the cliffs and do not make a logical conclusion of each character line.

Laccons is very different from the doors of the intensity of passions: stormy fights, hate, betrayal, revenge, love triangles – all in a bottle. The action is not so dynamic and illuminates daily life. If the priority heroes are compassionate, modest and shy, Lacchan actors (called gifts) play very hypertrophic feelings.