Murder Diary

刑偵日記 ‧ Drama ‧ 2021
Similarities:
-MCs deal with mental health
-Dark genre with a mystery twist to it
-Slight romance
-Takes place in Hong Kong
-MCs has a traumatic past
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Both feature an ML with multiple personalities and explore mental health and the characters' inner struggles. Both also treat the alters as individuals with their own feelings and desire to exist. Ji Sung and Vincent Wong both do an amazing job portraying the different identities, making each one genuinely feel like a different person.

They're quite different in genre though. Kill Me Heal Me is more of a romance/healing drama with lots of comedy, with childhood trauma playing a major part in the story. Murder Diary is a much darker mystery/crime thriller. The ML is a police officer, and his different identities work together to investigate criminal cases.

Romance also plays a major part in both. Kill Me Heal Me has one FL, while Murder Diary has two FLs. In Murder Diary, it's interesting to see how the ML's different identities have very different chemistry with the two FLs.

If you enjoyed the multiple personalities and psychological themes in Kill Me Heal Me, Murder Diary is definitely worth checking out. And if you're coming from Murder Diary, Kill Me Heal Me explores similar themes in a much lighter and more healing-focused way.
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Both have a lead with multiple personalities. Threesome has an FL in this role, while Murder Diary has an ML. Both explore trauma and mental health, and treat the alters as individuals with their own feelings and desire to exist. The acting is also a highlight, with Mandy Wong and Vincent Wong making each identity feel like a completely different person.

They're very different in tone though. Threesome is a lighter romance/comedy focused on healing and relationships, while Murder Diary is a much darker mystery/crime thriller. Romance plays an important part in both, but in very different ways.
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Both MLs are police officers investigating crimes while facing serious struggles of their own. As the investigations unfold, both MLs become increasingly caught up in the cases themselves. Both have a similarly dark and serious tone, with plenty of secrets, trauma and questions about who can really be trusted. They are psychological mystery/crime thrillers with strong character-driven stories.

There are some major differences though. Connection focuses on one central case, while Murder Diary follows several seemingly separate cases that gradually connect to the main story. The ML in Murder Diary also has multiple personalities, which play an important role in the investigations.

Romance is another major difference. Connection has no romance, while Murder Diary has a much stronger focus on it. It has two FLs, and the ML's different identities have very different chemistry with them.
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Both are dark crime thrillers with a police officer ML who gets personally caught up in the cases he's investigating. Both have plenty of mystery and plot twists, while also focusing heavily on the characters and their personal struggles.

Both have well-developed, complex characters and explore the psychological and emotional impact of the crimes rather than focusing only on solving the cases.

They're quite different in structure though. Murder Diary follows several different cases and has a stronger focus on psychology and romance. The ML has multiple personalities, with his different identities working together to investigate the cases. It does have some action scenes, but it's not nearly as action-packed as The Beast Stalker. The Beast Stalker is a fast-paced movie centered around one kidnapping case, with a stronger focus on action, guilt and redemption.
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A few cast were same..

Yeung Pik Sum suffers from Schizophrenia and her illness causes her son, Yip King Fung, to suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder. King Fung’s split personality, Chu Kei, becomes a handwriting expert and criminal profiler, who helps King-fung, an undercover agent, to uproot a criminal organization.

However, a series of strange cases makes King Fung a murder suspect and his younger sister to be traumatized. Feeling guilty about abandoning her children, Pik Sum becomes a mental hospital assistant to protect her daughter, but she is unable to reconcile with King Fung...

Superintendent Lip Shan invites King Fung to join the Special Crime Unit. Together with psychiatrist Wai Yui Kit, bomb disposal expert Yau Ngan Sing, forensic anthropologist Fong Yuen Chin, they deal with criminals with abnormal psychological conditions and solve complicated cases.


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Both are dark mystery thrillers about investigating crimes and uncovering the people behind them. The deeper the MLs investigate, the more they uncover and the more they get pulled into the mystery themselves.

Both explore the mysteries from different perspectives, with plenty of twists and questions about who can really be trusted.

They're quite different though. Adamas focuses on one main mystery, with twin brothers investigating it from different sides. Murder Diary follows many different cases, with the ML's different identities working together to investigate them. It also has more focus on psychology and romance.
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Both are mystery/crime dramas that follow different cases and uncover the truth behind them. Both go beyond solving the cases, exploring the people involved, their lives, relationships and personal struggles.

Both balance mystery with emotional and character-driven stories, while also exploring the leads' own struggles and inner thoughts.

They're quite different though. Unnatural follows a forensic pathologist investigating unnatural deaths, while Murder Diary follows a police officer with multiple personalities, with his different identities working together to investigate cases. Murder Diary is darker and more psychological, with a stronger focus on the characters' inner worlds and romance.
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