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Bossy bosses, toxic co-workers, underling subordinates! These are 'the Office Villians' that discourage the workers' happiness in the workplace. The new talk show analyzes the people who make us unhappy and reveals relationship tips to deal with the villains. The show will deliver comfort and mental support to viewers at home who have another day working diligently.

Cheng Xi Nian is a young girl who met an untimely demise in her first life. Realizing that she had been used to death after she was unexpectedly reborn, she vows to change the outcome of this new life and allies herself with Su Jing Yuan, a man who has been lurking and hidden in her family to get his revenge.

Men San Dao, the great master of the Inner Household, as well as the imperial bodyguard of the Guangxu Emperor, was imprisoned for participating in the Hundred Days Restoration. After serving 12 years, he was released by the boss of the Xuantong Internal Affairs Office, who asked him to solve a case in exchange for a commutation of his sentence. He agreed and, when investigating, found a man who was to be arrested was the remnant of the same faction he was a part of. Zhou Bu Fan was a Jianghu swordsman and a master of high skill. He was intelligent, but unfortunately, he was very poor, so poor that he had to rent out the main altar of the Gate Sect and wander around with his disciples. Running out of options, he made a deal and secretly helped Wang Ye do something disgraceful, making himself a pawn that could be used and discarded at any time. Jianghu had changed; no one cared for his cause, and he just couldn't adapt to modernization. Zhu Yan was a small-town Confucian student. She waited 10 years to take an important exam and get the meritorious name, but the law changed, the examination was abolished, and all of her efforts were in vain. In order to make a living, she opened a shop in her town. She hated the law of change and hated all the people and things that undermined the imperial power, wanting to do something about it. She became involved in a case and chased the murderer for thousands of miles, only to find that he was protecting the interests of the revolutionaries. In 1919, three unrelated people who were stuck in a turbulent world met each other and came together with others coming from similar hardships and defended the imperial power, who longed for a constitution and to block the opposition once and for all. Would they succeed, would their ultimate goals be realized, and would they be the heroes of their generation?

ZEGEN (The Pimp). “Of Imamura’s late films, Zegen is the most like his early masterworks: epic, energetic, sexually impudent, and grotesquely funny. A satire about colonialism, commerce, and carnality, Zegen is based on the true story of a hairdresser, Iheiji Muraoka (Ken Ogata), sent to Manchuria to spy on the Russian army. A born entrepreneur, Muraoka set up a chain of brothels throughout Asia —a kind of fornication franchise— and became ‘the big Boss of the South Seas.’ As Imamura portrays him, the ‘zegen’ is a decent but doltish and blindly patriotic businessman who views his development of a prostitution empire throughout Southeast Asia as the vanguard of Japan’s military adventurism: ‘For the sake of a great cause, I procure women.’”Imamura's rambling epic is filmed entirely outside Japan in early 1900's South East Asia. It satirizes Japanese imperialism with considerable bite, but is also very entertaining in its characters and story. Based on the autobiography of a Japanese business man named Muraoka, if follows the main character from when he jumps ship swimming ashore in Hong Kong harbour, to Manchuria where he works as a Japanese spy using prostitutes to gain information from the Russians, to Malaysia where he sets up brothels of Japanese prostitutes in a effort to further Japanese colonization in the area. Ken Ogata plays the lead, giving a nuanced performance of the man who runs brothels as part of his noble service to the Emperor. There is also a compelling love story, some very humourous satirical lines and plenty of half clothed women. What more could you want?Note: The title 'oyabun' is used for Muraoka often in the film. It means Boss, or Big Boss or Godfather... I think you get the picture. Trivia: Director Takashi Miike was given his first film credit, as assistant director on Zegen. He was a student at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image at the time. The Institute was founded by Imamura.