#1
Six Flying Dragons
Six men of vastly different stations help shape the founding of the Joseon dynasty.
Watch on: Viki
Editorial List
Best Asian Action Dramas
Stunt-driven, kinetic series for viewers who want propulsive storytelling.
This list is curated by the DramaSeek editorial desk and ranks 20 titles. Each entry below is a real, fully reviewed drama or film with its own dedicated page — synopsis, cast, ratings, and where-to-watch information. Inclusion isn't decided by audience rating alone: we factor in cultural footprint, craft, rewatchability, and contribution to the genre.
If you're new to the category, start at #1 and work your way down. If you're a returning fan, scan the list for titles you haven't yet caught. For broader recommendations beyond this list, see our long-form drama discovery handbook.
#2
Moving
Three Korean high school students with hidden superhuman abilities discover their parents share a past that hunts them all.
Watch on: Disney+
#3
Healer
A reclusive night courier with parkour skills and a tabloid reporter pull on a thread that leads back to a 1980s political conspiracy.
Watch on: Viki, Netflix
#4
Vincenzo
An Italian-Korean mafia consigliere returns to Seoul to recover hidden gold and finds himself avenging the residents of an old apartment building.
Watch on: Netflix
#5
Mysterious Lotus Casebook
A retired wuxia legend now travels with a portable wooden cottage and a younger swordsman, solving cases.
Watch on: Netflix, Viki
#6
City Hunter
A young man trained from birth as an avenger returns to Seoul to take down the politicians responsible for his father's death.
Watch on: Viki, Netflix
#7
Alchemy of Souls
In a fictional kingdom where mages can swap souls, a noble heir takes a powerful assassin as his teacher.
Watch on: Netflix
#8
Knight Flower
A young Joseon widow leads a double life as a masked vigilante helping the city's most desperate.
Watch on: Viki
#9
Taxi Driver
A secret revenge agency hides behind a Seoul taxi company, taking on cases the law has abandoned.
Watch on: Viki, Viu
#10
Weak Hero Class 1
A bullied honor-roll student uses his wits and physics-class problem solving to outfight his tormentors.
Watch on: Viki, Viu
#11
A Journey to Love
A retired imperial assassin and a foreign envoy escort an exiled princess across a hostile border.
Watch on: WeTV, Viki
#12
The Blood of Youth
Four young swordsmen with secret pasts cross paths in the wuxia world's most dangerous taverns.
Watch on: WeTV, Viki
#13
MIU404
A pair of mismatched mobile-investigation officers chase down Tokyo's most slippery suspects.
Watch on: Viki
#14
Descendants of the Sun
A Special Forces captain and a surgeon fall in love against the backdrop of an overseas peacekeeping deployment.
Watch on: Viki, Netflix
#15
Strong Woman Do Bong-soon
A petite woman with superhuman strength is hired as a bodyguard by a young CEO and pulled into a kidnapping investigation.
Watch on: Viki, Netflix
#16
Lawless Lawyer
A former gang lawyer returns to the city that broke his family to take down its untouchable judge.
Watch on: Viki
#17
Heroes (Joy of Life Prequel)
Wandering swordsmen, hidden princes, and martial sects collide in the most populous wuxia ensemble of the streaming era.
Watch on: WeTV, Viki
#18
Black & White
A by-the-book cop is paired with a gangland fixer to clean up Kaohsiung.
Watch on: Viki
#19
Oldboy
Imprisoned without explanation for fifteen years, a man is suddenly released and given five days to find out why.
Watch on: Hulu, Prime Video
#20
Legend of the Condor Heroes
During the Song-Jin wars, a guileless young man trained by the Quanzhen masters is dragged into a wuxia conflict.
Watch on: WeTV, Viki
How we rank these titles
DramaSeek's editorial lists are not pure aggregations of user scores — those are useful but tend to flatten cultural context. We factor in the show's audience reception, its place within the genre's history, and how it stands up to a rewatch. We also weight more heavily for titles that are still legally streaming in major regions, since this is a where-to-watch guide first and an archive second.
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