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The Judge Returns (판사 이한영)

The Judge Returns (판사 이한영) is a 2026 MBC Korean legal fantasy drama, 14 episodes, starring Ji Sung as corrupt judge Lee Han-young who regresses ten years after death; adapted from Lee Hae Nal's web novel, peaking at 13.6% Nielsen ratings.

The Judgment

The Judgment (Das Urteil) is Kafka's short story of Georg Bendemann, condemned by his father to drowning; written in one night, 22-23 September 1912, published 1913 in Arkadia, his breakthrough work.

The Judgment Day

The Judgment Day, WWE stable founded by Edge at WrestleMania 38 in April 2022; Edge ousted June 2022 by Finn Bálor, Damian Priest, Rhea Ripley; later Dominik Mysterio, McDonagh, Morgan, Rodriguez, Perez; held Raw, SmackDown, NXT titles simultaneously in 2024.

The Julia Set

The Julia Set is a 2026 American drama film about a gifted mathematician, Julia Fischer. She is recruited for the Putnam Exam while dating her teaching assistant.

The Juliana Theory

The Juliana Theory: American emo/alternative rock band formed 1997 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, led by Brett Detar and Josh Fiedler; albums Understand This Is a Dream, Emotion Is Dead, Love (Billboard 200 No. 71), and Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat; broke up 2006, reunited on Equal Vision Records with A Dream Away (2021).

The Jungle

The Jungle (1906) is Upton Sinclair's muckraking novel of Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus in Chicago's stockyards; its meatpacking exposé spurred the 1906 Pure Food and Drug and Meat Inspection Acts.

The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book (1894) is Rudyard Kipling's collection of seven stories with poems, mostly set in India, including the Mowgli tales, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The White Seal, and Toomai of the Elephants, with an 1895 sequel.

The Jungle Book (1967 film)

The Jungle Book (1967) is Walt Disney Productions' 78-minute animated musical comedy, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, loosely adapting Kipling's Mowgli stories. The last film Disney supervised, it was 1967's second-highest-grossing picture and earned an Oscar nomination for "The Bare Necessities."

The Jungle Book (1994 film)

Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) is Disney's live-action adventure directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey, Sam Neill, and John Cleese; released December 25, 1994, 111 minutes, PG, $30 million budget.

The Jungle Book (2016 film)

The Jungle Book (2016) is Jon Favreau's live-action/CGI Disney adventure based on Rudyard Kipling and the 1967 animated film, starring Neel Sethi as Mowgli; it grossed $965.8 million worldwide and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

The Jungle Book 2

The Jungle Book 2, also known as The Jungle Book II, is a 2003 American animated musical film continuing Mowgli's story after Disney's 1967 The Jungle Book.

The Juror

The Juror is a 1996 American legal thriller directed by Brian Gibson, starring Demi Moore as a juror blackmailed by a mob enforcer, played by Alec Baldwin.

The Just Assassins

The Just Assassins (French: Les Justes) is a 1949 play in five acts by Albert Camus about the 1905 assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.

The Justice of Kings

The Justice of Kings (2022) is Richard Swan's debut epic fantasy, first of the Empire of the Wolf trilogy from Orbit, following Emperor's Justice Konrad Vonvalt and clerk-narrator Helena Sedanka through a murder mystery and imperial conspiracy in the Sovan Empire.

The K's

The K's are an English indie rock quartet from Earlestown, Newton-le-Willows, formed in 2017 (Jamie Boyle, Ryan Breslin, Dexter Baker, Nathan Peers). Debut album I Wonder If The World Knows? hit UK Number 3 in 2024; Pretty On The Internet reached Number 1 in 2025.

The K2

The K2 (더 케이투) is a 2016 tvN Korean political action thriller, 16 episodes, directed by Kwak Jung-hwan, starring Ji Chang-wook as bodyguard Kim Je-ha with Song Yoon-ah and Im Yoon-ah.

The Kagerō Diary

The Kagerō Diary (Kagerō nikki, 蜻蛉日記) is a mid-Heian Japanese kana diary by Michitsuna's Mother about her marriage to Fujiwara no Kaneie, covering 954 to 974.

The Kallikak Family

The Kallikak Family (1912) is Henry H. Goddard's eugenic study of a pseudonymous New Jersey family, actually Emma Wolverton's, claiming hereditary feeblemindedness; its genealogy, including the barmaid ancestor, was later shown to be fabricated.

The Kane Chronicles

The Kane Chronicles is Rick Riordan's Egyptian mythology trilogy (The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, The Serpent's Shadow, 2010-2012) about sibling magicians Carter and Sadie Kane; a Disney+ live-action series is in development.

The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Tour

The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour (康熙南巡) was a series of six journeys by the Qing emperor from Beijing to the Yangzi delta between 1684 and 1707, inspecting flood defenses.

The Kapil Sharma Show

The Kapil Sharma Show (द कपिल शर्मा शो) is Kapil Sharma's Hindi comedy talk show, launched on Sony TV in April 2016 and continued on Netflix as The Great Indian Kapil Show from 2024, now in its fifth season.

The Karate Dog

The Karate Dog (2004/2005), also listed as Karate Dog, is a Bob Clark TV comedy in which Chevy Chase voices Cho Cho, a talking karate dog helping LAPD detective Peter Fowler (Simon Rex) solve a murder.

The Karate Kid

The Karate Kid (1984) is a Columbia Pictures martial arts drama directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Ralph Macchio as bullied teen Daniel LaRusso and Oscar-nominated Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi; it grossed $91 million domestically and launched a franchise.

The Karate Kid (2010 film)

The Karate Kid, also known as The Kung Fu Kid, is a 2010 American martial arts drama directed by Harald Zwart, a remake starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan.

The Karate Kid (franchise)

The Karate Kid franchise: American media franchise from the 1984 Columbia film about Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi; includes three sequels, a 2010 remake, Cobra Kai (2018), and Karate Kid: Legends (2025).

The Karate Kid Part II

The Karate Kid Part II (ベスト・キッド2) is the 1986 Columbia Pictures sequel directed by John G. Avildsen, sending Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi to Okinawa to face Sato; it outgrossed the 1984 original and was shot in Hawaii, not Okinawa.

The Karate Kid Part III

The Karate Kid Part III is a 1989 American martial arts film directed by John G. Avildsen, the third in the Karate Kid series, starring Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita.

The Kardashians

The Kardashians is a Hulu reality series (premiered April 14, 2022) starring Kris, Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Kendall and Kylie, continuing Keeping Up With the Kardashians after 20 seasons on E!; eight seasons have aired, with season 8 premiering October 8, 2026.

The Kashmir Files (द कश्मीर फाइल्स)

The Kashmir Files (द कश्मीर फाइल्स) is Vivek Agnihotri's 2022 Hindi drama on the 1990 exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, released 11 March 2022, starring Anupam Kher, a pandemic-era box-office hit and political flashpoint.

The Katzenjammer Kids

The Katzenjammer Kids is an American comic strip by Rudolph Dirks, debuting December 12, 1897 in Hearst's New York Journal; after a 1914 lawsuit Dirks created the rival Captain and the Kids, and the original strip ran until 2006.