Another film about Nichiren Daishoin, Buddhist Monk from Tendai tradition. He lived in Kamakura in 13Century and he taught the Lotus Sutra for mappo period.

evil stepmothers
evil and creepy step brothers
illegitimate child male lead
revenge by control, power and assets management

Both films are about the relationship with their estranged dead Father. In "Move the Grave" they have to relocate the remains. In "Little Big Women" they have to organise the funeral. In both they cremate the body.

1987 deals with similar themes of civil unrest and the important role both students and journalists played in the struggle for democratization under the authoritarian regime of the time by focusing on the historical event now known as the "June Struggle".

Both films are about South Korean Politics in the 80's during the last dictatorship and the transition to Democracy.

Both films are about massive nationwide protests lead primarily by University Students who risked their lives for a freer and fairer democracy in South Korea in the 80's.

Both leads were raised by wolves. In "The sound of the desert", Jin Yu (Cecilia Liu), an orphan girl of Xiongnu ethnicity, was raised by wolves in the desert, until a Han Chinese decided to adopt her.

Both movies are about adoptive parents with an adopted child that are contacted by their biological/ birth mothers because they want to have their child back.

By the same director, both films thematise dark and twisting journey through the history of warfare in Japan. They even share stylistic aspects.

Both films about spies caught in complicated political circumstances between South and North Korea.

both films are about Japanese fear and hatred of foreigners invading Japan. In "Kamikaze Taxi" the xenophobic behaviour is directed towards nikkei (the male lead is Japanese-Peruvian). Both are about yakuza and power struggle as well.

Both treat the theme of Cannibalism, a rather taboo subject. Anthony Chau-Sang Wong won the Best Actor Award in Hong Kong Film Awards (1994) for the character,Wong Chi Hang, the Main Male Lead in "The untold story".