Asian Dramas Like Luther

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.

Nam Joong-do is a principled assemblyman building a career on moral conviction — until a traumatic secret from his wife's past surfaces and threatens to destroy everything. As poli…

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

An honest but struggling detective partners with an experienced but morally flexible colleague to solve a difficult case.

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

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 Luther's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, Vigilante delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about an obsession that consumes a character completely and thrillingly. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Twin brothers — a crime novelist and a prosecutor — separately infiltrate the same powerful chaebol family to find the evidence that will prove their stepfather was framed for murd…

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Han Yi-han was once the best thoracic surgeon in Korea — until a powerful pharmaceutical company destroyed his career by framing him for a patient's death. Years later, he returns …

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Oh Kyung-sook is a ruthless PR strategist who has crushed careers and built corporate empires. When a worker's death exposes the chaebol family she serves, she defects — and decide…

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. 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 Luther's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, Watcher delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A team of elite financial crimes investigators, assembled from the wreckage of careers destroyed by the cases they couldn't solve, are given unofficial license to pursue the untouc…

If you loved Luther's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, The Hunters delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A veteran detective is framed for murder and must uncover the truth while working with a young detective who distrusts him.

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