Boku Dake ga 17-sai no Sekai de (2020)

20 years ago, Kei, a 23 year-old highschool teacher, fell for a student, Hitoha, a beautiful girl, but lost her from a tragic car accident. He’s now a middle aged factory worker who has just quit the job to visit Klavan in Ukraine. There lies a beautiful railway called Tunnel Of Love, where people say you can meet with your deceased beloved one. A freight transport runs once a day and it is said that the train takes someone you wish to meet

Both stem from not ground-breaking (often bordering very cliche) concepts, yet they manage to pull unexpectedly great executions

In order to stop his classmates from bullying him, the protagonist, Kamiya Tooru, makes a false confession to a girl in his class, Hino Maori. Even though she knows that the confession is a lie, Maori says yes with the three rules: "Don't talk to me until after school," "Keep communication brief," and "Don't fall in love with each other". The two promise not to fall in love, but as they get to know each other, they find themselves drawn to each other. When Tooru finally couldn't hold back his feelings, Maori's words were unexpected.

"I have an anterograde amnesia, and I forget things when I sleep at night. Everything that's happened in a day". Her memories and experiences were reset every day, and she wrote down the day's events in a diary and woke up early in the morning to review them in order to keep her memory alive. Tooru is devoted to bringing her as much happiness as possible. However, such daily life did not last long. What is the "plan" that Tooru has devised to protect Maori's happiness? The raging climax and the fragile tenderness will wrap the world in warm tears once again.

An elementary school teacher named Takano Takayuki who is gradually losing his ability to see tries to hide this fact from his girlfriend Yoko. She eventually discovers the truth and immediately flies home from Mongolia to to comfort him.

Similar story 2 ML & 1 FL, friends from younger days until they getting older. A twist of youth love along the way. Ray Zhang too adorable as always! Both movies a must watch movies with different story line.

Inseparable childhood friends Shou Heng and Cheng Shing have their world thrown into chaos when a new girl comes to town and falls for Shou Heng.

The story of Tomorrow spans over 8 years, including love and friendship. It narrates a high school sports athlete, Yuan Cheng Mei, who was injured due to a practice session in school. At that time, there was a stranger who saved her and therefore, that's how this story started.

Fifteen-year-old Sei Saotome is the type of person who tends to fail at the most crucial times. After nearly becoming a high school drop-out, she enrolls into a school that is overambitious for her. There she meets the bold and popular Taiyou Udagawa; and the dreamy and stars obsessed, Mizuki Ootaka. After being asked by Mizuki to join the two guys in the Astronomy Club, it turns out high school life isn't as bad as she had expected.

If you love Boku dake ga 17-sai no Sekai de you will also love Tsuma, Shogakusei ni Naru..Both drama exposes us how painful it could be losing someone you love and suddenly, come back!! A miracle that influence people around them..

The differences :
Tsuma, Shogakusei ni Naru - Family theme where family members become gloomy and dark.. But, even if our loved ones were to leave us one day, we should still face life positively and live it to its fullest

Boku dake ga 17-sai no Sekai de - Friends theme where they showed how the friendship scattered afterwards..but, the drama brings out a new meaning to moving on and looking forward after a painful event..

So, Highly recommended to watch for both of these drama

- First love
- Nostalgia about meeting your first love
- Small town setting
- Common group of friends
- Slice of life; heartwarming

Shogo is left blind and mute from an accident but he is able to live a fruitful life as a composer. He receives ongoing therapy from the hospital where nurse Kana works. Just when their relationship is about to blossom into romance, tragedy strikes when Shogo is killed in a car accident. At the moment of Shogo's death, a shooting star falls and gives him the chance to live again for four more days. But he is unrecognizable to his friend and forbidden to reveal his true identity. Shogo decides to express his feelings of affection to Kana.

Both are tragic romance movies about a girl with a secret. Both are very similar.................................................

A summer hit in HK, this romantic fantasy from Jingle Ma is shamelessly manipulative, incredibly cheesy, and totally sappy. It goes to extreme lengths to yank your chains and push your buttons...and it works. Amazingly, this manufactured piece of sap is also an entertaining, compelling movie. An HK version of Ghost and Always, Fly Me to Polaris stars Richie Ren as Onion, a blind-mute who’s in love with his nurse Autumn (Cecilia Cheung). Before any feelings can be exchanged, he dies in a Meet Joe Black kinda way and proceeds to win a celestial contest. This flimsy plot device states he can have one wish - which he uses to live again. They deny him that, but give him the opportunity to return for one week.

a group of friends are split apart after the death of their closet friend & are brought back together when their dead friend comes back after some time has passed, both focus on how the death of someone close to you impacts your life, the struggles of moving on, and getting closure.

slight differences: in our 30 minute sessions they don't realise the main character has come back as a ghost as he possesses someone else's body but the core messages are similar (also great music)

The main lead dies and returns again not having aged a day old from when they left. The leads try and figure out what happened leading up to their death and try to fix what they can.

Both follow a group of high school best friends who are impacted by a tragedy. Through past (high school) and present (adult) timelines, a supernatural "time-slip" reunites them as they try to fix the past and prevent their biggest regrets.
Additionally, both are set in Nagano Prefecture: Orange in Matsumoto and Boku Dake ga 17-sai no Sekai de in and around Lake Suwa.
Plus, Yamazaki Kento appears in both (but just a guest role in 17-sai)!