While Lee Jun Young is mostly renowned as a maknae of the K-pop boy group, U-KISS and the winner of the survival reality program, ‘The Unit,’ which gave him a spot as a member of UNB, he has also cemented his name in the Korean entertainment industry firmly. With the release of his latest project, ‘Love and Leashes’ starring alongside Girls’ Generation’s Seohyun, his popularity is shooting up sharply! From beginning his acting career with a supporting role in the TV series, ‘Avengers Social Club’ in 2016 to having multiple major projects in his hands, the twenty-five-year-old entertainer has come a long way! Let’s celebrate his success by looking back at the best K-dramas and movies that Lee Jun Young starred in!
He is currently preparing for his upcoming movies, including ‘Brave Citizen’ where we can witness him in a dark role once again, ‘The Wilderness’ and the youth drama movie ‘More Painful than Sadness’.
6. Please Don’t Date Him (2020)
Director: Oh Mi Kyeong Starring: Song Ha Yoon, Lee Jun Young, Yoon Bo Mi, Gong Min Jung, Joo Woo Jae, Nam Min Woo Total Number of Episodes: 10 Where to Watch: We TV, Viki
A perfect rom-com in Lee Jun Young’s filmography, ‘Please Don’t Date Him’ follows an AI-based household appliances developer named Seo Ji-Seong, who aims to live a perfectly developed life free of all flaws. She somehow ends up inserting a super sensor chip in an advanced refrigerator which, instead of measuring the freshness of vegetables put in it, can now examine the undesirables of people from a dating pool, eventually saving people from heartbreaks.
Please Don’t Date Him
Seo Ji-Seong gets hopeless when she comes to know that her seemingly perfect fiancé is not really her Prince Charming. She comes across a firefighter named Jung Kook-hee, who surprisingly doesn’t have any social media record for the program to analyze. In order to save herself from any other heartbreaks, she initially is skeptical about this mysterious guy, but when can she prevent herself from falling in love with him? You have to watch it, to find out!
5. Love and Leashes (2022 Movie)
Director: Park Hyun Jin Starring: Seo Hyun, Lee Jun Young, Lee Hyun Bae, Lee El, Lee Suk Hyeong, Kim Bo Ra Where to Watch: Netflix
With the release of the movie Love and Leashes, Lee Jun Young has made a strong debut in the South Korean movie industry. The unique theme of male-submissive BDSM is almost non-existent in mainstream media of K-movies, but the movie has done justice in giving a solid introduction to BDSM. While Jung Ji Hoo is the blunt, cold, and popular employee of the company where Jung Ji Woo works, unbeknownst to others, he has been hiding a secret. Owing to the similarity in names of the two, a package meant to be received by Ji Hoo ends up in the hands of Ji Woo. When she opens it, she finds a leash that leaves her bemused.
Love and Leashes
However, when Ji Hoo realizes that she is not being judgemental towards him being a submissive male, he requests her to be his master for a period of three months. Thus, a racy romance involving the fantasies of Ji Hoo begins with Ji Woo as his master! However, Ji Woo finds herself romantically drawn towards him during the contract period.
4. Let Me Be Your Knight (2021)
Director: Ahn Ji Sook Screenwriter: Shin Seo Ha, Seo Jung Eun, Hae Yeon, Yoo So Won Starring: Jung In Sun, Lee Jun Young, Jang Dong Joo, JR, Yoon Ji Sung, Kim Dong Hyun Total Number of Episodes: 12 Where to Watch: Viki
The recently released musical rom-com K-drama, ‘Let Me Be Your Knight’ narrates the love story of a world star K-pop idol named Yoon Tae In, who has been suffering from sleepwalking, and a tour guide named Yoon Joo who dreams of having a house of her own. Yoon Tae In is the leader of the boy group, Luna, as well as its producer. An unforeseen incident involving Yoon Joo bounds her to be a resident doctor of Yoon Tae In when she gets mistaken as her twin sister and doctor, Kang Sun Jun.
Let Me Be Your Knight
She moves into his house and starts living there with all five Luna members, Yoon Tae In, Lee Shin, Seo Woo Yeon, Kim Yoo Chan, and Woo Ga On, in order to help cure Tae In’s sleepwalking. The show offers a predictable and cliche-ridden storyline but in a way that the spectators would love to watch. The theme of healing and growth has also been well highlighted, which makes the drama one of the worth-watching Lee Jun Young K-dramas.
3. Avengers Social Club (2017)
Director: Kwon Seok Jang, Kim Sang Ho Screenwriter: Hwang Da Eun, Kim Yi Ji Starring: Lee Yo Won, Ra Mi Ran, Myung Se Bin, Lee Jun Young, Choi Byung Mo, Jang Yong Total Number of Episodes: 12
Avengers Social Club is a slice-of-life K-drama that focuses on the bond of friendship. It follows the stories of three women coming from different backgrounds who end up joining forces for their individual revenge. While one of them is a middle-aged fish-store owner who dreams of having an improved lifestyle, the other two are a housewife and a wealthy heiress who has been born and brought up like a delicate greenhouse flower. Though they are too different to end up walking into each others’ lives, destiny brings them together, and they decide to carry out their quest for revenge.
Avengers Social Club
However, with time, they find themselves more than just partners, and the friendship keeps on getting stronger. Actor Lee Jun Young plays the character of Lee Soo Gyum in the drama, who has been neglected by his birth parents all his life and thus joins the revenge club to get back at his biological parents. It is a heart-warming K-drama that empowers women and focuses on various social issues.
2. Class of Lies (2019)
Screenwriter: Jang Hong Chul Director: Park Ji Hyun, Sung Yong Il Starring: Yoon Kyun Sang, Geum Sae Rok, Choi Yoo Hwa, Lee Jun Young, Choi Kyu Jin, Han So Eun Total Number of Episodes: 16 Where to Watch: Viki
Class of Lies is a law thriller mystery that centers on a successful lawyer named Gi Moo Hyuk, who faces a downfall in his career because of a case. In order to fix his reputation, he decides to work as a teacher at a high school temporarily. Despite entering the premises of the classroom with his own selfish ends, he doesn’t seem to be able to ignore the crimes that take place in the school. He ends up taking matters into his own hands in order to protect his students from their peers.
Class of Lies
The show is an intense one and brings into the limelight the reality of minors having to face little to no punishments after committing a crime just because of being under-aged, which fails to provide security to the people who become victims of such crimes. Lee Jun-young portrays the character of the genius class topper with countless achievements who happens to be the son of a big politician of the country.
1. Imitation (2021)
Screenwriter: Choi Sun Young, Kim Min Jung Starring: Lee Jun Young, Jeong Ji So, Jeong Yun Ho, Park Ji Yeon, Kim Min Seo, Im Na Young, Total number of Episodes: 12 Where to Stream: Viki
One of the best Idol life story K-dramas of all time, ‘Imitation’ is a musical rom-com adapted from a manhwa series of the same name created by Park Kyung Ran. The story follows a former K-pop trainee named Lee Ma Ha whose dreams of making her debut get dashed after a tragic incident at the company. She impersonates a solo singer named La Ri Ma at small events in order to support herself, but she finally finds a ray of hope when the manager of a popular agency recruits her as a member of his new girl group, ‘Tea Party’.
Imitation
When she comes across Kwon Ryok, the most popular K-pop idol of the same agency as hers, they initially find themselves not getting along with each other. However, they end up falling in love with each other and begin their secret relationship. However, if the public comes to know that they are dating, they might hit the rock-bottom of their newly established careers. Imitation might be a go-to drama for you if you are looking for Lee Jun Young K-dramas!
It contains several Anime from different Genres. Ranging from Shounen to Shōjo and Action to psychological. Crunchyroll has it all. In the past few years, the genre that has come under the spotlight is Shounen-ai, which translates to Boys’ love. This genre depicts Romantic relationships between men. BL is gaining a huge fan base by every passing second. And knowing a good place to stream some of these BL masterpieces is important. So, here are the Best BL anime to watch on Crunchyroll.
1. Love stage
Love stage is a BL showbiz classic. Izumi comes from a family background full of actors and actresses. As a kid, Izumi got featured in several Commercials for a wedding magazine. After that, he was never seen partaking in any other Film or video. His dream is to become a manga artist Instead.
Love stage
2. Hitorijime my hero
This Anime showcases a healthy relationship between a student and teacher, which sounds wrong when I phrase it in this manner. Masahiro Setagawa is a teenager with a pushover personality. He is often bullied by the neighborhood kids, who treat him like an errand boy. Masahiro is shown as a helpless boy who knows that he will never be saved. However, everything changes when he meets Kousuke Ooshiba. He is known for taking down these gangs, and he is called the “Bear Killer.”
Hitorijime my hero
After a year while attending his Highschool, Masahiro gets together with his old friend, Kensuke Ooshiba (also Kousuke’s Little Brother). There he finds out that Kousuke is their new math teacher. Over time Masahiro starts to think of Kousuke as his hero while Kousuke starts to get an urge to protect Masahiro.
3. Spiritpact
Keika is a part-timer trying to pull himself out of poverty. Keika has a brief encounter with a peculiar-looking stranger in a junkyard. After this, he wakes up and discovers that he died in an accident and became a spirit killed in a sudden accident and has become a spirit.
Spiritpact
He meets the same man again, and it’s revealed that he is Tanmoku Ki. The 13th Youmeshi of the highest-ranking exorcist family. Noticing that Keika is a wandering spirit, now he makes an offer to form a pact. As per the pact, he will protect, and Keika will become his spirit shadow.
4) Banana Fish
Banana Fish is the reason why I suddenly wake up at night, cry for 2 hours then go back to sleep. The storyline features two men, Ash and Eiji. Ash Lynx is a runaway kid taken under the shelter of a famous mafia boss Dino Golzine. He is 17 years old and has his gang. One day At a bar, Skip, one of Ash’s friends, introduces him to Shunichi Ibe as well as his assistant, Eiji Okumura. They both are Japanese photographers making a report on American street gangs.
Banana Fish
Ash and Eiji immediately form a special bond. However, their conversation gets interrupted by Shorter Wong. Ash gets called out by his allies about Dino. Soon, The bar is stormed by Dino’s men. Throughout this chaos, Ash tries to protect Eiji. Ash ends up getting Eiji involved in the whole mess and now must find a way to keep him safe.
5. Given
Mafuyu Satou has a chance encounter with Ritsuka Uenoyama, who notices him taking a nap on the staircase. He lectures Mafuyu for letting his guitar’s strings break due to the rust and break. Seeing how Ritsuka is so knowledgeable about the instrument. Mafuyu requests him to fix the guitar and teach him how to play it. Eventually, Ritsuka agrees to his request and invites him to listen to him, and his bandmates sing their songs.
Given
Soon Mafuyu joins in and becomes the vocalist of the band as his voice is exceptionally calming. Throughout these sessions and training, Mafuyu and Ritsuka form a special connection and start getting closer.
