Asian Dramas Like Jessica Jones

A Korean gambling magnate who built an illegal casino empire in the Philippines from nothing faces a deadly reckoning as his empire and the corrupt web supporting it begins to coll…

If you loved Jessica Jones's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, Big Bet delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

By day, Kim Ji-yong is a top police academy cadet. By night, he tracks down criminals who escaped justice through legal loopholes — and kills them. When a tenacious journalist begi…

If you loved Jessica Jones's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, Vigilante delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Cha Joo-eun's picture-perfect life shatters when her husband vanishes the night before he was supposed to testify in a high-profile case. As she desperately searches for him, she d…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Three people with shattered lives — a detective whose wife was murdered, an internal affairs officer whose career was destroyed by corruption, and a crime profiler caught in the mi…

If you loved Jessica Jones's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, Watcher delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A detective wakes up in a hospital with no memory, covered in someone else's blood, and holding a wedding ring that isn't his. As he reconstructs his identity, every clue suggests …

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Season 2 of the survival horror epic. In the aftermath of the Green Home apartment's collapse, survivors scatter across a world that is fully monstrous — and Cha Hyun-su grapples w…

Both are built around trauma that shapes characters' every choice without reducing them to their wounds. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Kim Yo-han is a promising judicial trainee sent undercover inside a maximum-security prison to expose an illegal gambling ring run by powerful inmates. When his cover is blown and …

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A detective becomes addicted to drugs after being injected during an investigation, uncovering a drug cartel tied to his past.

The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Two young men with exceptional combat skills become loan shark collectors to fight back against a predatory lending empire that is destroying ordinary people's lives. What starts a…

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A Korean-American woman builds an elaborate false identity as a high-society luxury brand executive, targeting the ultra-wealthy elite of Seoul. When her fabricated persona — and t…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.