Move to Heaven (2021)

- messed up family relationships being resolved
- fatherly love
- similar character growth
- wholesome, precious and lovely
- comfort and healing aspects in the most subtle ways
- has a few similar themes that were shown in some of the episodes as side stories

Both movie has a male lead that use to be gangster/ ex-convict
However their trying to adjust to normal life, but can they get out of that life, would evil people leave them alone?

Move to heaven has an episode about kid born and raised in different country. Trying to find his birth mom and root

Both dramas are heartwarming in a way because the main characters father dies and leaves them alone. The main character then has to live life without any family, that is until "family" shows up. Both characters work in a business with this new family. There is also LGBTQ+ representation in both of them.

Itaewon Class
The main character gets out of prison and decides to take revenge on a man who is half responsible for his fathers death. He wants to take revenge by outdoing the mans business. While planning revenge, he meets some people that make him feel he still has a family.
-Business, life, food


Move To Heaven
The main character is a young boy with autism, the boys father dies and he can't be left alone. So the boy's uncle gets called in to look after him. The uncle just got out of jail for beating someone up in a fight. The boy continues to work for the business that he and his father used to run, but instead of working with his father, he has to work with his uncle.
-A type of business to help the deceased and their loved ones
-Life, drama, family
-Very heartwarming and very sad
-Digs into multiple people's issues

similar plot in both dramas
similar objective of helping the bereaved people of dead loved ones
similar cute and funny sometimes leads

Both has a male lead that has no choice but to return to boxing ring for money.
Tough male lead with soft hearted soul
Heartwarming Korean film indeed

Both male lead are boxer.
Tough outside but soft hearted inside.
Heartwarming drama
Full of personality
Underground fight

Both movie involved brotherhood. One brother ended up go to dark side to fight for money. The younger brother remain innocent. A touch of romance

The female lead grow up in tough life and served jail time. Can they stay cleaned and away from the underground activity? Can they live a normal life?

Both have to do with taking care of death while memorial of the life. Heart warming and touching. Beautifully make

Both talk about funerary services and the little pockets of interactions between the service providers and those who come seeking their aid. Both have main leads who find the meaning of life through death, in a sense.

I would say its no necessarily the same, but if your looking for more disability representation I do recommend this too!

Move to Heaven - autistic mc, difficulty in navigating change in their environment, family adjustments too,

Father-son relationship and dynamic, family oriented

While move to heaven shows the person and sercumtanses behind a persons death prison playbook shows the sercumtanses and the person behind the jail sentance.

Both deal with predjedus and call out the gaps in modern society reaching beyond what is seen on the surface.

And both deal with bonds, in prison playbook its more about friendship while move to heaven is more about family.

Move to heaven is allot shorter but both are great dramas that will awaken a range of emotions in you.

One of the story in Move to Heaven touch the same tragedy of Korean infant got adopted from American family. The different is that James Parker was lucky to be adopted by great parents. The story in Move to Heaven was adopted by abusive parents, etc…

In both drama the main characters share the same profession. Moreover in both drama the themes of life and death are prevalent.