Recommendations

similar:
- romance across different times
- connected through sharing the same physical space but during different times
- quiet melancholy atmosphere
- emotionally mature and character driven

different:
- il Mare uses letters exchanged through a mailbox, as the leads initially do not realise they are living 2 years apart in the same house
- leads can communicate directly and immediately within the same apartment space, despite being separated by 90 years in Night Wanderer
- Night Wanderer emphasises investigation, mystery and themes of independent movement during the colonial period

the FL subbed for her best friend to go on a blind date and got to meet the ML. Despite saying absurd money related requests to the ML he still accepted it.

Both dramas explore generational trauma and a mother's influence on their child. They both include the child, their mother, and their mother's mother (grandmother).

While WLGYT focuses more on family, love and coming of age, OUS highlights the challenges of adulthood and career pivots. Slightly less romance in the latter.

Both can make you cry if you have similar experiences.

Zheng Ye Cheng once again reprises his role from Love of Thousand Years as Gong Zi Qi in Fate Chooses You. He appears in episode 40, the last episode.

Set on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, this film tells the story of 15 years between Aono Kai, who transfers to the island from Kyoto, and Inoe Akimi, who grew up on the island and is troubled by parental issues. The two, both lonely at heart, are attracted to each other and fall in love, but are at the mercy of the destinies they each carry.

Set on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, this film tells the story of 15 years between Aono Kai, who transfers to the island from Kyoto, and Inoe Akimi, who grew up on the island and is troubled by parental issues. The two, both lonely at heart, are attracted to each other and fall in love, but are at the mercy of the destinies they each carry.

Ryo is a former professional boxer who becomes a collector for a loan shark. He grew up in an orphanage in Okinawa Prefecture with heroine Haru, Natsumi, an aspiring actress, and two others. One of them is now a lawyer who has had to bail Ryo out and the other a lucky young woman adopted by a rich family. Haru, too, was adopted and has never once left the island where she grew up. When her adopted mother dies, she decides to go to Tokyo to find the old group. Being naive to the ways of the modern urban world, she almost ends up being sold off into the sex industry as soon as she sets foot on Tokyo's fair shores, but Ryo comes to her rescue.

Ryo is a former professional boxer who becomes a collector for a loan shark. He grew up in an orphanage in Okinawa Prefecture with heroine Haru, Natsumi, an aspiring actress, and two others. One of them is now a lawyer who has had to bail Ryo out and the other a lucky young woman adopted by a rich family. Haru, too, was adopted and has never once left the island where she grew up. When her adopted mother dies, she decides to go to Tokyo to find the old group. Being naive to the ways of the modern urban world, she almost ends up being sold off into the sex industry as soon as she sets foot on Tokyo's fair shores, but Ryo comes to her rescue.

Nanakusa shows up at Kaidan-shima, an island for people who have been abandoned. He just wants to live in peace and doesn't notice anything odd about the island, but everything changes when he meets his childhood friend Manabe Yu. His life is soon upended by Yu, who is trying to solve the riddles surrounding the island.

Set on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, this film tells the story of 15 years between Aono Kai, who transfers to the island from Kyoto, and Inoe Akimi, who grew up on the island and is troubled by parental issues. The two, both lonely at heart, are attracted to each other and fall in love, but are at the mercy of the destinies they each carry.

Nanakusa shows up at Kaidan-shima, an island for people who have been abandoned. He just wants to live in peace and doesn't notice anything odd about the island, but everything changes when he meets his childhood friend Manabe Yu. His life is soon upended by Yu, who is trying to solve the riddles surrounding the island.

Set on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, this film tells the story of 15 years between Aono Kai, who transfers to the island from Kyoto, and Inoe Akimi, who grew up on the island and is troubled by parental issues. The two, both lonely at heart, are attracted to each other and fall in love, but are at the mercy of the destinies they each carry.

Nanakusa shows up at Kaidan-shima, an island for people who have been abandoned. He just wants to live in peace and doesn't notice anything odd about the island, but everything changes when he meets his childhood friend Manabe Yu. His life is soon upended by Yu, who is trying to solve the riddles surrounding the island.

Nanakusa shows up at Kaidan-shima, an island for people who have been abandoned. He just wants to live in peace and doesn't notice anything odd about the island, but everything changes when he meets his childhood friend Manabe Yu. His life is soon upended by Yu, who is trying to solve the riddles surrounding the island.

Yuri is a high school student in the present day. She isn't happy with her life at home or school. One day, she has an argument with her mother and runs away from home. Somehow, when Yuri later opens her eyes, she realizes that she is in the year 1945. She happens to meet Akira, a pilot for a kamikaze unit in the military.