Asian Dramas Like The Affair

A news anchor with hyperthymesia who remembers everything meets a top actress who has lost her memories. As they fall for each other, they discover a tragic connection linking thei…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: memory. Same mysterious and emotional energy throughout.

A photographer who can capture the souls of the dead in his studio encounters a mysterious woman who is slowly disappearing from the world, and must solve the supernatural mystery …

Both navigate the same emotional territory: love. Same mysterious and emotional energy throughout.

A woman awakens with no past — only the fading impression of a love she can't name and a grief she doesn't understand. As she pieces together a life in an ancient world of artisan …

Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A photographer who can see death becomes entangled with a woman from the spirit world in his midnight studio.

Same mysterious and emotional energy throughout.

Ko Sewon is a neuroscientist who developed the technology to sync his brain with the recently deceased — absorbing their memories and emotions to solve mysteries. When his own fami…

Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.

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 …

If you loved The Affair's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Black Out 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 relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.

A spirit who has wandered the same stretch of Seoul for three hundred years discovers that the woman who just moved into his territory is the reincarnation of the person he couldn'…

Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. Same mysterious and emotional energy throughout.

While investigating her best friend's mysterious death, a single mother becomes entangled in a dangerous web of manipulation where love and betrayal are indistinguishable — and whe…

Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a method of sending messages to the past using a microwave. What starts as gleeful tinkering becomes a nightmare when he realiz…

If you loved The Affair's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Steins;Gate delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A doctor who's a superfan of an idol named Ai is murdered and reborn as her son. His twin sister is also a reincarnation with her own agenda. When their idol mother is killed by a …

If you loved The Affair's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Oshi no Ko 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 emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.