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In his Chinese film, "Scent," Park Shi Hoo plays Kang In Joon, a Korean interior designer...who finds love when he meets an innocent Chinese girl...it's directed by Jessy Tseng who directed award-winning art house film Big Blue Lake.

Ami, a backpacker from Japan who is four years older than high school student Jimmy, shows up at his part-time job. The two end up spending the summer working at the same store, but Jimmy gradually develops a faint crush on Ami. The two of them grew closer as they rode motorcycles together at night and went to the movies, but suddenly, Ami decided to return to Japan. Ami proposes her "one promise" to Jimmy, who can't sort out his feelings. As time passes, Jimmy visits his parents' house for the first time in a while and finds a postcard that Ami sent him 18 years ago when she returned to Japan. Jimmy's memories of his first love come back to him, and he takes his first solo trip to Japan to confront his past and examine his present. Jimmy rides the train while listening to songs that remind him of his memories with Ami, and he heads to her hometown. Will Jimmy be able to reunite with Ami?

They are the only two real Chinese BL of this year, both feature real MM kisses, and are produced around the same time

Both FLs are the older teachers of the MLs who start out rebellious but quickly fall head over heels for the FL and start chasing her.

Both FLs are ML's somewhat older teacher who he falls in love with long before she reciprocates his feelings.

Both FLs are modern day girls with difficult lives who enter a fictional VR historical world where they must accomplish tasks. MLs are also from the real world, something that's not revealed until close to the end of the drama. Both have similar open/implied to be happy endings after ML sacrifices himself in the game to save the world.

Both FLs are modern day girls who enter a VR historical world where they must accomplish tasks, and fall in love with the ML, who is also from the real world, along the way.

Both FLs are modern day people who enter a fictional historical VR world where they have to accomplish tasks. Both worlds involve demon hunting and ML is at least partially a demon.

Both FLs are modern girls who transmigrate into a VR style fictional historical world in which she has to accomplish tasks.

Both have the same director, so the same style and vibes. Both have excellent action scenes and BL undertones.

Both are short LGBTQ+ romances between a human and a ghost. One is BL and the other GL.
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Both are short LGBTQ+ romances between a human and a ghost. One is BL and the other GL.
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Both are Thai BLs with a love story between a human and a ghost.
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Both are very short BLs centered around acting with the leads falling in love as they portray their characters.

Both are very short BLs centered around acting with the leads falling in love as they portray their characters.