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Although one is about time travel and another one is not, both dramas have lots of similarities with their respective cases. In both dramas we have a police team that has to deal with similar cases, and situations. Both main leads get help from a female lead who is not involved in the police department. Both cases are gripping and surprising and full of twists and turns one would not expect.

Both are about strong and unconventional female leads!

In "The hidden Fortress", two peasants agree to escort a disgraced samurai general and a princess (Misa Uehara) across enemy lines.

I felt like Chen Yun Ru's character is similar to Umine Zenko's one , since both initially feel unloved and disconnected from society. Both dramas talk about "being inside" someone else's body.

Both are based on fiction by Shuhei Fujisawa.

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

Both are based on fictions by Shuhei Fujisawa.

As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.

Both are based on fictions by Shuhei Fujisawa.

A 19th Century samurai, held in low esteem due to an action by his late father, must resolve his history with a maid and with his close friend.

Adaptation of Osamu Dazai novel "Pandora's box" (1945). Inspired by events from Dazai’s own life, the story centres around a young man at the end of the second world war who has been suffering from tuberculosis for some time but kept quiet about it expecting to die soon and remove the burden on his family. However, when the war finally ends Risuke inherits a new will to live and commits himself to a sanatorium to treat his lung condition. Whilst in the hospital he comes into contact with writers and poets as well as pretty nurses all the while proceeding with his plan to become a “new man” for this “new era”.

Adaptation of the novel "The setting sun" (947) by Osamu Dazai. It is set in Japan after World War II. The story shows a family in decline and crisis, like many other families during this period of transition between traditional Japan and a more advanced, industrial society.

Based on one of the best known works of Japanese literary giant Osamu Dazai "No Longer Human", was the last in a series of commemorative film projects marking the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth in 2009. "No Longer Human" is semi-autobiographical, fixated on the idea of suicide, and charts the course of its protagonist as he becomes hopelessly lost in a life of dissipation, alcohol, drugs, and overwhelming depression.

Osamu Dazai's literary work "No Longer Human" has received quite a few adaptations. This film is about the women in his life. In fact, the Japanese subtitle for Ninagawa’s film is ‘Osamu Dazai and three women.’

Both are about biographical films about the wife of famous artists. In Villon's wife is a writer and in Tokyo Biyori is Nobuyoshi Araki, Japan's leading photographer.

both movies display family and life in dramatic and realistic way.
They both tell stories about youth and young people life struggles.

-similar school time romance vibes where you meet someone who you love and makes a super big impact on you
-no magic elements in OT but does have time jumps and bring you on a whole hecking journey for the main CPs
-DARREN WANG IS AMAZING

Korean Zom-Com. Starts out as one thing and becomes something else in the 2nd half. But it is a comedy through and through.

-if you're into k-dramas, HDL also has a fantasy vibe that involves magic and different mystical creatures/characters!!
-both have cute cp couples to ship for sure + awesome side kick characters
-fits the fantasy vibe where past history has a bunch of stuff