Both are about dedicated teachers with a unique personality. They care deeply about their students and try to help them in various ways. The episodes follow individual backgrounds of the students in his class, and deal with subjects like bullying, false accusations of sexual harrassment by a student, and family issues, etc.

Both films show a LGBTQ+ relationship where one man might harbour feelings but is cold towards another who is deeply in love with him.

Both films depict a complicated LGBTQ+ relationship where one man is a bit elusive with his real desires while another man is madly in love with him/trying to win him over.

Both films depict a complicated LGBTQ+ love triangle where jealousy and love consume all.

-Complicated love triangle
-Korean language LGBTQ+
-Jealousy
-Explicit sexual content

-Chinese language films that take place in a bath house
-Owner is at risk of losing his bath house and struggles to train someone to maintain it/help him

Both are Korean language films that show a man who is bound to a wheelchair and the mental and physical challenges he faces.

The Last Wish is the Chinese remake of the original Korean film The Last Ride. Both tell the exact same story.

-Korean language film
-Serious subject with comedic undertones
-Physically impaired man shares an extreme friendship
-Heartwarming

Both are Japanese language dramas that show a highschool girl being taken advantage of and mistreated by others. They also show a boy facing an oppressive father.

Both show a girl who turns to prostitution and who is mistreated and taken advantage of by several different people.

Both are Japanese language films that show a violent man who goes around beating up people while being followed by another man he just met.