Recommendations

both are lgbt movies whose main characters are high school students. They focus on love and friendship and have a summery feel.

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

A young boy follows Tashiro home to his tenement housing complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, the boy who was separated from his carpenter father somehow and somewhere in Kudan. The father purposefully abandoned the boy as he went off to look for work.

A widow sends her only son away to receive a better education. Years later, she visits him, finding him a poor school teacher with a wife and son.

Mental Illness, Psychiatry, Romance, and Healing

Both dramas deal with protagonists who are dealing with emotional traumas. Both have the Male Lead as Psychiatrists who forms an attachment the on-some-spectrum Female Lead

A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.

Love triangle is kind of similar.

Interesting story.

Good cast.

Playful FL and strong ML, who always protects the FL from the beginning and later falling in love with her.

FL works for ML
ML changes Demeanour for female lead
Cohabitation
Secret from colleagues
Loyal ML
Very similar vibes

Both have. Very familiar feel. Rich older guy poor girl who is a student. They start off badly but gradually c9me to care for each other.

Both about the mafia. Have similar romance. ML and his brother are on opposite sides of the law. Both shows are about cops and criminals. Cheewit forcuses more on the criminal side where as the brothers shows both sides.

Female Character Butting Heads With Her More Elite Male Lead
Elite Male Lead who ends up working together with the Female Lead
Office and Workplace Drama and Comedy
Strong Female Leads who are both feisty and charismatic, and don't back down despite those who have more power than them
Deals with Societal Issues
Female characters who end up saving the day

Office and Workplace Comedy Drama
Comedic Usage of Visual Gags
Main character getting into a job and becoming the person that comes to save that company or town
Both characters start off beneath their level at their jobs but soon grow into them
Both characters begin new chapters in their life that better suit their personalities

Main character doing something that becomes their true power
Office Politics and Drama within Characters
Mentor-Mentee relationship
Mundanity of Ordinary Life and Getting By Due to Strong Motives
Both main characters have done ordinary jobs prior to being hired
Both deal a bit with the issue of nepotism in the beginning

Into the Ring is based on this J-drama
Both have female leads who fall into politics due to their circumstances
Both characters come from lesser backgrounds and have to move their way up using their street smarts and strong character
Both discuss how politics work in their respective countries
Only difference is there's not much emphasis placed on romance than Into the Ring