Best Hong Kong fantasy series

Journey to the West is a Hong Kong television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title. Starring Dicky Cheung, Kwong Wah, Wayne Lai and Evergreen Mak, the series was produced by TVB and was first broadcast on TVB Jade in Hong Kong in November 1996. A sequel, Journey to the West II, was broadcast in 1998, but the role of the Monkey King was played by Benny Chan instead, due to contract problems between Dicky Cheung and TVB. Cheung later reprised the role in another television series The Monkey King: Quest for the Sutra, which was broadcast on TVB but not produced by the station.

A Step into the Past is a 2001 Hong Kong television series produced by TVB and based on Huang Yi's novel of the same Chinese title. The series tells the story of a 21st-century Hong Kong VIPPU officer who travels back in time to the Warring States period of ancient China. He is involved in a number of important historical events that leads to the first unification of China under the Qin Dynasty. The series' first original broadcast ran from 15 October to 7 December 2001 on the TVB Jade network in Hong Kong.

The Legend of the Condor Heroes is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. The series was first broadcast on TVB Jade in 1994.

A “doppelgangers” website has facilitated the connection between two complete strangers that look like identical twins. Law firm partner Ko Sau-shing tracks down his former lover Yu Fung, whom he has not contacted for ages, online, and Yu Fung is looking for a part-time boyfriend with a similar appearance to him. Sau-shing arbitrarily approaches applicant Mo Kei-nam, who is a dead ringer for him. The duo also covertly agree to swap identities for two weeks. Sau-shing plays the role of Yu Fung’s “substitute lover”, and deadbeat Kei-nam disguises himself as Sau-shing while simultaneously dealing with his wife Lee Chi-ying and father-in-law Lee Kwun-hang as each and every crisis at the law firm is handled by him. While the identity swapping deadline looms, this pair of lookalikes are eventually shocked to realize their mutual life trajectories are already different from their expectations.

Lok Chak-shun, a man who lives three different destinies shaped by his choices. Born prematurely in 1960s Hong Kong, he grows up passionate about comics. A school prank leads him to a fateful encounter with a mysterious girl, but a broken kite triggers a ripple in time, splitting his life into three divergent paths.

Once a renowned feng shui master, Mo Mo-che loses his powers after a failed ritual unleashes 108 evil spirits. Reduced to a struggling fortune teller, he tries to move on until a series of supernatural deaths force him to confront his past and stop the growing menace.

Maurice is inexplicably missing at Twilight Mansion. Although he is tracked down and survives an ordeal, but he has forgotten everything and also become another person. His girlfriend Ella feels he is somehow different. To unravel this mystery, the only option is to begin with Twilight Mansion. Strange things keep happening at Twilight Mansion. Some esports team venture into the virtual world, and there is some baffling kidnapping story. “Korean craze” is also triggered by comet particles, and there are other happenings. After encountering weirdos and experiencing puzzling incidents, Maurice and Ella are more deeply in love than ever before. They are adamant that they are meant for each other. However, Ella has probably fallen in love with unreal Maurice.

Rewind to Wai Tak-shun’s childhood days and Tak-shun is devastated due to his father Wai King-yan’s death. He then has mood swings and loses interest in everything. He even completely forgets about his father. For Tak-shun’s sake, his mother Tse Mei-sheung and uncle Tse Tim-sing never mention King-yan’s death.

While on patrol duty, EU sergeant Ling Sun-fung and her team are called to assist a criminal chase. A gun battle erupts and Sun-fung loses her father, who dies from a stray bullet to the head. Sun-fung continues the pursuit, but a strange natural phenomenon suddenly turns her away, taking her back to April 1—three days prior to the incident. Realizing that she has travelled back in time, she uses this opportunity to save her father's life. Village chief "Ditch", an informant for the ICAC, discovers Sun-fung's special ability and teams up with her to investigate a corrupted cop. Unfortunately, their persistent disruption to the timeline causes severe butterfly effects, with unsettling consequences.

Yeesa has time-traveled through time and space to change her destiny many times, but this time, she wakes up a year later to find herself in a timeline where the people she used to know aren't exactly who they were in the previous timeline. Feeling lost and out of place in life, she tries to find her way back only to encounter different variables this time that might change her destiny once more.

At the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Zhou's tyranny made life unbearable for the people. Li Jing, one of the dynasty's most renowned generals, and his wife Yin Shiniang, faced a strange event when their child was born as a ball of flesh. Believing it to be a demon, Li Jing split it open, revealing a two-year-old boy named Nezha. To protect her child, Shiniang sent Nezha to the Nuwa Temple to be raised. Nezha befriended Yang Jian and Lei Zhenzi, and the trio delved into the world of kung fu. Yang Jian's sister, Yang Lian Hua, fell in love with Nezha at first sight. Meanwhile, King Zhou's indulgence in beauty and favouritism towards Su Daji led to widespread destruction. Jiang Ziya then led Nezha, Lei Zhenzi, and Yang Jian to persuade King Wen and assist King Wu in leading an army against Zhou. Together, they fought against the injustice.

My Date with a Vampire is a 1998 Hong Kong television series produced by ATV. The story is based on the future events of the plot of Vampire Expert, a similar two-season television drama aired on ATV in 1995 and 1996. It blends aspects of the jiangshi with those of western vampires, while injecting elements of Chinese mythology and modern horror legends. The series is a tribute to Lam Ching-ying, the lead actor of Vampire Expert and a prominent cast member in the Mr. Vampire franchise, who died of liver cancer in 1997. It was followed by My Date with a Vampire II and My Date with a Vampire III.

Yeesa Cheung, born on a leap day, believes her birthday is squeezed between 28 February and 1 March in common years. When she celebrates her birthday in 2017, she unexpectedly travels to 29 February 2020 in Sapporo. There she is greeted by two strangers, Ryan Ma and Yu Ka-chung, and finds her future self killed in a traffic accident. After she returns to 2017, only one second has passed, but the three have now to work together to circumvent their common destiny.

Each day, night shift taxi driver Ma Kwai drives female doctor Chong Tsz-Yeuk to and from work on time, cherishing the moments they share, without realizing that he is meant to be her guardian. One night, at midnight, when Ma Kwai is urinating on a highway, he accidentally breaks the spell placed on a hundred-year-old genie, Shek Kam-Dong, and starts having inconceivable experiences. He not only sees things that others around him don't see but also receives superpowers. Though Ma Kwai initially feels very annoyed at this turn of events, he later teams up with Kam-Dong to hunt demons for money.

Against the Blade of Honour is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Gu Long's novel Yuanyue Wandao. The series was first run on TVB in July 1997 in Hong Kong.

Five supernormal humans with odd jobs became heroes when they seek justice for the people on the streets. They suddenly unlocked supernatural powers which they did not possess before. Each of them have their own special powers such as strength, time controlling and more.

Dubbed Hong Kong's version of Black Mirror, each episode in this anthological series explores the relationship between humans and emerging technologies within society and how it affects us.

High-end AI robot Bo accidentally loses her way while she is being shipped from the factory. She eventually ends up among a family of weirdos in the realm of human beings. AI company employee Koo Ka-lim thinks he has found some treasure and arbitrarily keeps Bo for himself. To help four family members in the Koo household handle all kinds of strange tasks, Bo switches on her self-learning function and begins to experience myriad human emotions and desires. She even has a crush on her master Ka-lim and understands the meaning of love. Top management member and also romantic rival Sister Dorian keeps going after Bo at all times as she is determined to eradicate her. Meanwhile, Bo detects some computer bug has hit her. Her life is coming to an end.

The Return of the Condor Heroes is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title. It was first broadcast on TVB Jade from 31 October 1983 to 6 January 1984 in Hong Kong.

In a multidimensional domain, Poon Siu-yu enters the second dimension after her death in the first dimension, i.e. the mortal realm. She then joins Office of the Life Authority and becomes a novice “destiny administrator”. Siu-yu has to keep a close watch on food courier Chan Pei-ho, who is in the mortal realm. Pei-ho earns a meager living regardless of the weather. But his family members just do not care about him. He is already overwhelmed by life pressures, and he is also jinxed by “bad spirit” Siu-yu while doing his job. Siu-yu gradually sympathizes with Pei-ho. Meanwhile, Pei-ho also realizes this mysterious girl has covertly helped him a lot. The duo then even recklessly start a romantic relationship that is probably going to have no future.

The story is about the future in Year 2060 where a Time Limit Law is implemented in a certain country. Everything that is done including dating is limited by time. The protagonist realizes the Law was created to control the people's means and joins a revolution to overthrow the Time Limit Law.

Three Ming dynasty imperial officials accidentally travel to modern-day Mainland China while searching for a missing princess.

In a war against evil, the White Force and the Black Force have a Golden Seal Battle every five years. Each force selects five people to represent its community. Whichever side wins the battle has control of the wuxia world for the next five years. However, over the years, the Black Force has become more evil than before, and their goal evolved to destroy all good to allow evil to control the world. When the selected five representatives from the White Force are suddenly killed, its members are forced to find replacements.

Loosely based on the Chinese mythology of the same name, the TV drama tells of a young couple whose lives change when the woman accidentally drinks the soup of ten magical beans. From the ten beans, the woman conceives ten sons. Fearful and unprepared for their sons growing into adults, the couple abandons them. One day, a mysterious white-haired man appears in one of the brother's visions and delivers a prophecy that could change the ten brothers forever.

Legend of the Demigods is a TVB fantasy-adventure-comedy TV series starring Sunny Chan, Linda Chung, Benny Chan, Halina Tam, Stephen Au, Nancy Wu and Charmaine Li. The ending theme song Fat Sai is performed by Linda Chung and can be found in the Lady in Red album. It was first broadcast in August 2008.

In the 1930s, Wisely returns to China from his overseas studies and runs a detective agency in Shanghai to investigate paranormal events. He meets a doctor named Pak So and she becomes his love interest, but they encounter several trials and tribulations to test their love before they finally get together. The series is divided into eight different stories, with Wisely and his team setting off to investigate and crack each mystery case. The stories are listed as follows: Paper Monkey (紙猴), Deadly Body Change (屍變), Charcoal (木炭), Searching Dreams (尋夢), Bug Suspect (蠱惑), Supernatural Beings (神仙), Ghost Story (鬼混), Disturbing Graves (盜墓).

A sudden storm causes Chung Ting-Kwok, a guerrilla fighter during the Second Sino-Japanese War, to awaken after being frozen for over seventy years. He discovers that he is now in the year 2018. He searches for his family, only to see his descendants behaving badly. His son Ho Woh-Ping is fraudulently on welfare, while his grandson Ho Wing-Nin uses feng shui to deceive people for money, yet Ting-Kwok is unable to correct them. From covering up the truth of murder to getting caught up in a battle for money, Chung Ting-Kwok vows to save his family at any cost.

A father and son work together across time to solve murders and crimes that occurred in the 1980s and present time.

All of Hong Kong’s 8 million citizens are wondering whether the stock market will achieve new heights, and struggling over whether their relationships will continue.

Super Snoops is an TVB modern drama series set in the 1960s.

The Duke of Mount Deer is a Hong Kong television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Deer and the Cauldron. It was first aired on TVB in 1984.

LUI MAN FUNG (MAN TSE LEUNG) is a top neurological surgeon, a very earnest and resolute type who will try to achieve his goals by hook or by crook. Because of his character defects, he has been on bad terms with his family. Even his girlfriend YIP MAN (HSUAN JESSICA HESTER) is worried about his raging temper. The relationship between the pair therefore involves frequent quarrels and arguments. Eight-year-old NG SIU TUNG (CHENG PAK LAM) has been suffering from brain cancer. Wishing for a medical cure, he follows his uncle LUK AH CHOI (CHEUNG WAI KIN) to the United States to seek consultation treatment.....

Yuen Jun Hap is a top class surgeon, amateur detective and martial artist with an insatiable curiosity and the moral code of the traditional youxia. His curiosity draws him into investigating a slew of seemingly unrelated kidnappings and other bizarre crimes. However, as Yuen investigates deeper he discovers all the crimes are in fact linked and are part of a plot by a doomsday cult. Convinced that mankind is due to be wiped out by an extraterrestrial source, the cult's crimes are carried out to hide and fund the theft of genetic material from the brightest and fittest human specimens in order to create a master race with which to repopulate the earth. ~~ Adapted from the novel series "Dr Yuen Series" (原振俠系列) by Ni Kuang (倪匡).

A Hong Kong adaption of Gu Long's Chu Liuxiang novel series.

Tang Ping Kuen, the village head of Lucky Villaige, was always at loggerheads with businesswoman Christine Fong. One day, Christine was shot dead during a paintball game. The spirit of Christine can't rest in peace until she finds out who murdered her. Christine decides to take possession of Kuen's body.

The Yang's Saga is a 1985 Hong Kong miniseries based on a series of novels and plays titled Generals of the Yang Clan. The series is a grand production by the television station TVB. The original broadcast period on TVB Jade was from 23 to 28 September 1985, within the night time slot for Enjoy Yourself Tonight. Starring the Five Tiger Generals of TVB, the drama also featured the largest star-studded cast in Hong Kong television history, including many of the industry's current top award-winning global and cinematic stars.

The Smiling, Proud Wanderer is a Hong Kong wuxia television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel of the same title, starring Chow Yun-fat and Rebecca Chan

The story is set in the 1960s Hong Kong. The sincere Ko Tai Hei smuggles to Hong Kong, where his father's good friend Kam Lo Yik recommended him to join the police force. One time, he had an accident and got shot in the head. Pieces of the bullet went into his brain cells and oddly increased his IQ significantly. Since then, Hei turned into an intelligent detective capable of cracking down strange cases. However, his personality changed as well, turning him into a cold-hearted person who will do things by unscrupulous means.

The innocent and straightforward dragon girl (played by Yuan Jieying) tries to learn the method of raining in the world, and she must become a human being. She wanted to play around in the bustling world, but she was deeply attracted by Ye Xi (played by Chen Haomin), who is kind and generous, and the two began a "human-dragon love". However, "people and dragons are in love, must be sent from heaven", resulting in a variety of conditions, out of control, but they still love each other. On the other hand, Zhou Chu (Qian Jiale), who grew up with Ye Xi, has strong martial arts, but a strong personality. He once believed that dragons are the root of all evil and determined to take dragon slaying as his own responsibility. Once when he went up the mountain to slay the dragon, he accidentally rescued the beautiful Crescent Princess (played by Zhang Shenyue), and soon began a close relationship.

A Bride for a Ride is a 2009 Hong Kong television series based on the traditional Pingtan story of the same name. Set during the prosperous Ming Dynasty of China, the drama revolves around the rich and influential Wong family and their comedic ties with Chow Man-bun, a young and handsome scholar who has a specialty in cross-dressing. To prove his worth to Wong Sau-ying, his ideal lover, he cross dresses as a beauty in a lantern festival so he can get closer to her. Sau-ying's older brother, Tiger Wong, sees Man-bun's beauty and kidnaps him home. A Bride for a Ride consists of elements of Cantonese opera. Chin Kar-lok, who stars as Tiger Wong, is also the drama's action choreographer.

Selling Laizi is not amazing because of copper (Wang Zulan), but he has a good singing voice, and he is eager to become famous one day. After repeated internal struggles, he participated in a singing competition, and was finally turned a blind eye because of his ugly appearance. Everything went wrong ever since. One day, because Tong met the beauty Yang Xianhua (played by Gou Yunhui), Yang did not leave him because of his ugliness, but met him frankly. Because Tong was so touched, he felt love for him. The best friend Cai Zhuoyan (played by Lin Zishan) deliberately made it happen. He encouraged him to show his love boldly because of copper.

The Legend of Wong Tai Sin is a TVB television series premiered in 1986 based on the story of Wong Tai Sin.

A big house is haunted by four ghosts. Three families moved in at different times, including Ling Da Ting and his pregnant mistress Lu Bi, the jeweler Wang Tian Xiang and his family, and the retired dance instructor Hua Luo Shi and his family. Although the house is haunted, the younger generations can communicate and play with the ghosts. Lu Bi went into labor, and the four ghosts competed to be reincarnated. Once, Lu Bi was saved by Zhuang Wei Qiang, who had a crush on her. Xiao also fell in love with Lu Bi, and they began a romance. Eventually, the three families faced eviction but became close friends after going through ups and downs together. The three families helped the ghosts reincarnate, and they tearfully said goodbye at a banquet.

Taishang Laojun Deyu Emperor ordered to find eight candidates who had the potential to become immortals, namely Li Xuan's iron crusade Li who borrowed the corpse to return his soul, Han Zhongli, the old man Zhang Guolao who sold fruits, Lü Dongbin, the reincarnation of Huayang Zhenren, He Xiangu, a flower girl He Xiangu, Lan Caihe who sang with a clapper, Han Xiangzi, a talented son holding a horizontal flute, and Cao Guoun, his uncle. The eight people were originally ordinary people, each with different backgrounds and encounters, but they were enlightened and cultivated by Lao Jun. The eight people went everywhere to help others and do good deeds to accumulate virtue, during which they encountered the murder of the Dragon Prince, the Dragon Cousin, the Heavenly Dao Ancestor and others three and four times, can they overcome all difficulties and achieve positive results?

The 'W' Files is a 2003 Hong Kong fantasy-adventure-mystery television period drama serial based on Ni Kuang's novel series Wisely, starring Gallen Lo as Wisely. The series was first broadcast on TVB in Hong Kong from 2 June to 11 July 2003. The 30-episodes long series contains a total of eight different stories, set in China in the 1930s.

To be a human, you must eat your brain, and to be a zombie, you must "eat your brain"! Fei Qingyu Yangguang was shocked to find that his body was abnormal, and ran to the mortuary with an abnormality. In front of his friends, forensic intern Gu Deming and Taoist Warren, he ate bloody human brains! From then on, when the sun eats other people's heads, they will have their memories and skills. One day, Sunshine was so hungry that he wanted to eat the head of Mo Xiaochun, the daughter of the Sparrow House. The two did not know each other. After Sunshine became a brain-eating zombie, he experienced various wonderful lives through the heads of others, and finally realized after the experience, determined to protect the family-owned hot pot restaurant. At this time, uncle Yu Guo was fascinated by the sun, and revealed the secrets of the Yu family, and a zombie disaster was imminent...

When Kuang Tianyou and Ma Xiaoling successfully subdued the original vampire Jiang Chen, they couldn’t enjoy their peaceful lives for long before a new world-ending crisis arose.

Nüwa, the goddess who created humankind in Chinese mythology, feels very disappointed and heartbroken after seeing how her creations have been corrupted by evil. She intends to end the world on 2 January 2001. Cheung San existed long before the world came into existence, and he has a crush on Nüwa. Fong Tin-yau, Ma Siu-ling, and their friends plan to stop Nüwa from ending the world. However, they will come into conflict with not only the goddess herself, but also Cheung San and his followers.

Lam Sai Wing (Lo Hoi Pang) was an apprentice of the legendary Master Wong Fei Hung. Because he had killed too many during his lifetime, he was delayed from reincarnation, and his soul was somehow trapped inside a high school. A group of wealthy students, Chui Man Kin (Edward Mok), Sze Chun Nam (Sunny Chan), and Tsang Chi Sing (Cheung Kam Ching) were upset about the greedy behaviors of the school mistress, Liu Wai Chu, and the disciplinary counselor, Au Yeung Hip Sing. The students played tricks upon them, and accidentally led them to death. Seizing this opportunity, Wing returned to life after entering into the teacher's body. Without any experience as a teacher, Wing created a lot of trouble, and made the entire school livelier. As the school atmosphere improved, Hip Sing's soul returned and demanded to return into his own body.