Asian Dramas Like Tokyo Vice

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…

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

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

Both are built around systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A passionate tax investigator who believes in absolute fairness is assigned to a prestigious accounting firm as an embedded auditor — where he meets a senior accountant who has spe…

Like Tokyo Vice, it leans hard into unlikely partnership. At its core, it's about the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

A police detective becomes addicted to drugs after being unknowingly exposed, and investigates a drug cartel from the inside while battling his own dependency.

Both are built around the pursuit of justice in a system that was never built for it. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.

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 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.

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

Both are built around systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Seo A-ri was an ordinary woman working retail until a celebrity's impulsive post made her an influencer overnight. As she navigates the cutthroat world of Korean social media elite…

If you loved Tokyo Vice's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Celebrity delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same stylish and dark energy throughout.

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 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.

Detective Park Joon-mo goes deep undercover into the most dangerous drug syndicate operating across Korea, China, and Japan — a criminal empire bridging three countries. To gain th…

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.