Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1994)（三国演义）

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a Chinese television series based on the classical novel of the same title. First aired in 1994, the drama spanned a total of 84 episodes. As one of the most expensive television series produced at that time, it was completed over the course of four years, involved 400,000 in cast and crew and allegedly cost a pretty penny. The end result was one of great quality and gained a big number of fans in foreign countries, especially Japan. The drama was later rebroadcast on Japan’s NHK repeatedly, and again on SUN in 2009 as well.