I cannot recommend enough the Taiwanese drama, Black & White. On the surface, it's a cop-buddy series, with a kitchen sink of multi-layered, intricate, very-few-holes, plot that twists, twists back again, and then comes around to get you at the kneecaps. Politics, murder, suspense, procedural, a little bit of romantic triangle but leavened by some good male-female friendships, too. But what really makes it worth watching is that it is an entire series jam-packed with awesome female characters.
Here's a small taste of the kind of awesomeness I mean: the mob boss' daughter is shown as a little spoiled, definitely headstrong, but as one raised within the triad, she sees all the "brothers" as her "uncles". She's not so good with the hand-to-hand self-defense (and she's also teeny compared to most of the men in the cast), and it's a running joke how she keeps trying to flip various good (and bad) guys and never can manage it, but she also visits the range regularly & is a decent shot. Unfortunately, being the daughter of the mob boss means she's a target for anyone with a bone to pick, so it's no surprise she ends up hog-tied and laying across the train-tracks. Good thing she's alerted someone and a rescuer comes to save the day. (Not naming the rescuer because that'd be a major spoiler.)
They're getting away from the bad guys, but then the rescuer is shot and the motorcycle goes down. Now the bad guys have them cornered. Mr Rescue pulls two guns out from under the bike seat, puts 'em together, and tells her that he's going to run to the right and draw off the bad guys' fire. While he's doing that, she's to run to the left, get away, get help. Off he goes. Bad guys shoot. Just as the would-be self-sacrificed Mr Rescue ducks behind a barrier, the mob princess steps out from behind the first barrier and shoots both of the bad guys herself.
It's not treated as a kick-ass feminist moment (in terms of the music or other cues). It's not treated as comedy. It's not even treated as much of anything, other than the mob boss' daughter refusing to leave one of her men behind. So she joins in the fight rather than run away. (Later, one of the main protagonists runs and leaves men behind, and I think her reaction is also meant as echo/contrast to the protagonist's cowardice.)
For that matter, the top dog barely puts up any complaint, other than remarking that those weren't his directions. She just shrugs it off, and the matter's dropped. (I had expected the usual Hollywood fashion of the next ten minutes being him yelling at her about it, but we got none of that.)
That's just one instance in an entire series of instances where female characters don't cower helplessly or lie there waiting to be rescued (and the only reason the mob princess does that one time is because she's unconscious). For that matter, not a single female character calls herself stupid, nor do any of the male characters say that of the female characters.
Nor is there any nonsense of telling the woman to step down and go hide because the man feels compelled to protect her, as though she's a burden on him. In the scene described above, the dynamics are different, because Mr Rescue's instructions are nearly identical in spirit to instructions given to the actual mob boss, in earlier scenes (when his underlings willingly sacrifice themselves so he can get away). It's not a matter of, "I can't do my job if you're here being all need-my-protection," it's a matter of "my job is to protect you, so if you get away safely, I've done my job properly." The difference is that Miss Princess shows the same guts as her father (and uncles), and refuses to leave a man behind. While it may be striking to have a female character shooting back (and afterwards showing little to no remorse in doing so, yay!), the actual dynamics are no different from previous displays of male-underling-male-boss.
Overall, the female characters are quite capable of protecting themselves, far better than just about any other police-drama I can name, Western or Eastern.* Strong women, full agency, not a stupid one in the bunch, and all of them very capable -- and allowed, by the script, to be completely capable. There are other reasons to speak highly of the series, but the strong female characters have got to be at the top of the list.
(* A rare competitor for "way strong female roles" would be the Korean movie, Secret Couple, aka My Girlfriend is a Secret Agent, aka Grade 7 Civil Servant, and no I haven't the faintest which is official -- you can find the movie under any of those titles.)