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Death's Game

★ 8.4 26K votes 2023–2024 1 season · 8 episodes Ended TVING
K-dramaKorean drama storytelling: emotional arcs, romance beats and format traditions.This show: 9/10RedemptionThe long road to earning back a lost self.This show: 8/10TearjerkerEngineered to make you cry, and it works.This show: 8/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 7/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 7/10Tight limited runA compact, complete story told in just a few episodes.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Seo In-gukPark So-damGo Youn-jungLee Jae-wookChoi SiwonSung Hoon
Written by
Lee Wonsik
Starring
Seo In-gukPark So-damGo Youn-jungLee Jae-wookChoi SiwonSung Hoon
Written by
Lee Wonsik
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About

"A punishment that turns into empathy training"

After a string of failures, a young man begs Death to end his suffering. Death, unimpressed by his ingratitude, strikes a bargain: he must live and die repeatedly as several different people, experiencing wildly different lives before he can return to his own. Each short arc becomes its own compact story of circumstance and consequence, ranging from comic to devastating. The show moves briskly through its anthology-like structure while building toward a personal mystery and romance. It is stylish and emotionally manipulative in the best way, anchored by a strong lead performance and unexpectedly moving detours.

Watch it for

the inventive structure that reincarnates its hero into wildly different lives each episode.

Maybe skip if

you dislike anthology-style pacing that resets characters and stakes every episode or two.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12023
8.49K86h 52m
At the brink of going to hell, Yee-jae must cycle through twelve separate lives and twelve separate deaths in this reincarnation drama.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Death8.1
1K45 min
▶2The Reason You're Going to Hell8.4
1K50 min
▶3Death Can't Take Anything Away8.6
1K58 min
▶4The Reason You're Afraid of Death9.1
1K64 min
▶5It Is Impossible to Break Free and Fight against Death8.4
86859 min
▶6Memory8.5
85458 min
▶7Opportunity8.1
2K38 min
▶8Don't Go Looking For Death. Death Will Come Find You8.4
96940 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Seo In-guk Choi Yi-jae
Park So-dam Death
Go Youn-jung Jung Ji-soo
Lee Jae-wook Choi Yi-jae (I Jae's 5th reincarnation), Choi Yi-jae (Reincarnation)
Choi Siwon Choi Yi-jae (Reincarnation), Choi Yi-jae (I Jae's 1st reincarnation)
Sung Hoon Song Jae-seop (Yi-jae's 2nd reincarnation)
Jang Seung-jo Lee Joo-hoon
Kim Mi-kyung Choi Yi-jae's mother
Kim Jae-Wook Jeong Gyoo-cheol
Kim Ji-hoon Park Tae-woo

Crew

Lee Wonsik

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