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Masato is a young ramen chef in the city of Takasaki in Japan. After the sudden death of his emotionally distant father, he chances upon a suitcase of memorabilia and a red notebook—filled with musings and old photos—left behind by his Singaporean mother, who died when he was just ten years old.

Acting on a hunch, he takes off for Singapore with the notebook, hoping to piece together the story of his life, as well as that of his parents. There he meets Miki, a Japanese food blogger and single mother who helps him track down his maternal uncle Ah Wee, who runs a bak kut teh stall. Masato discovers that his grandmother Madam Lee is still alive, and that she holds the key to the tender yet turbulent love story of his parents. Masato and his grandmother try to heal each other's broken souls, and they find salvation in the kitchen, where the meals they cook become more than the sum of their ingredients.

~~ A co-production between Singapore, Japan, and France.

An upper class Caucasian woman living in New York is unable to conceive a child with her Korean-American husband, who is sterile. After her husband attempts suicide, she contacts a young illegal immigrant from South Korea to pay him to have sex with her, so that she might get pregnant and save her marriage.

~~ A co-production with U.S.A.

Jake Adelstein is the first Western reporter ever to write for a Japanese-language newspaper.

Based on his memoir, "Tokyo Vice" is Jake's daily descent into the neon-soaked underbelly of Tokyo, where he embeds himself into the police squad and becomes enmeshed in the hidden, complex, and corrupted cultures of the city's vice cops and the criminal underworld.

"Tokyo Vice" takes us deep into a series of overlapping worlds, where no one and nothing is who or what they seem.

~~ Loosely inspired by the memoir "Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan" by Jake Adelstein.
~~ A co-production between the U.S.A and Japan. Edit

In nineteenth century China, two girls named Snow Flower and Lily are forever bonded together as sworn sisters. They are paired as laotong by a matchmaker who is also responsible for arranging their marriages. They are isolated by their families and communicate by writing in a secret sisterly language, Nü shu (a historical practice in China in that period) on a unique Chinese fan that Snow Flower possesses. In the present day Shanghai, their descendants Sophia Liao and Nina Wei struggle with the intimacy of their own pure and intense childhood friendship. As teenagers, Sophia and Nina were introduced to the idea of laotong, and they signed a traditional laotong contract on the cover of Canto-pop Faye Wong's album Fu Zao (Restless in English). Eventually they are separated but come together again when Sophia falls into a coma after being struck by a taxi while cycling. Reunited at long last, they must come to understand the story of the strong and close ancestral connection hidden from them in the folds of the antique white silk fan or lose one another forever in the process.

A vampire named Saya, who is part of covert government agency that hunts and destroys demons in a post-WWII Japan, is inserted in a military school to discover which one of her classmates is a demon in disguise.

A co-production with France, Japan, and Argentina.

Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei (Yu Kashii), drummer Kyoko (Aki Maeda), and bassist Nozumi (Shiori Sekine) are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son (Bae Doo-Na), though her comprehension of Japanese is a bit rough! It's a race against time as the group struggles to learn three tunes for the festival's rock concert—including a classic '80s punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called "Linda Linda"...

A feature film set in Busan involving Korea, Thailand, and Japan.

"Love for Sale"
Dir. by Jang Joon Hwan
Set in the near future in Busan. A story of lovers who forget about each other and fall into fatal love.

"Iron Pussy"
Dir. by Wisit Sasanatieng
Set in the 1970s. A man dressed as a woman enters Busan as a secret spy from Thailand. He falls in love with an unidentified Korean man.

"Kamome"
Dir. by Isao Yukisada
Set in 2010. The title means 'seagull' in Japanese. A fantasy melodrama about a movie director and a young woman who transcend space and time like a mirage.

Mizuho is a promising rhythmic gymnast, but she is diagnosed with a spinal cord disease and becomes paralyzed from the waist down. She is devastated. With the help of music, Mizuho works toward a new dream.

Ex-Los Angeles cop turned private eye Kline travels to Hong Kong in search of Shitao, the missing son of a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss. Enlisting Meng Zi a friend and a former colleague now working for the Hong Kong Police, Kline follows a faint trail left by the ethereal Shitao. The path leads to local gangster Su Dongpo and his beautiful, drug addicted girlfriend Lili. But Kline is distracted from his search, haunted by memories of the serial killer Hasford whose 'body of work' was the reason Kline quit the police force. Will Kline once again need to lose his mind to find his latest quarry?

The movie depicts various stories of show operating staff members working for rock festivals, who always dream of performing on the stage themselves.
Dong-wan has been working for the Pentaport Rock Festival for 5 years. He is also a member of a music band dreaming about performing at the festival. In reality, however, it doesn’t seem like his dream will come true. Phillip has been looking for a job ever since he graduated from college. He applies for a part time job at the festival and gets an interpreter position. He tries his best to be a full time staff for the festival.

When his boss Dae jung goes missing in a ship accident, the company sends Woo joo to Osaka to finish his business. On his last day in the city, Woo joo chases someone looking exactly like Dae Jung to Taisho, an area in Osaka. He ends up losing him, but the sound of a guitar draws Woo joo to a small bar, Pier 34. Its owner, Snow, somehow reminds him of Dae jung, and listening to his music brings back memories. After passing out right there, Woo joo ends up missing his flight back to Korea. He quits his job on a whim and soon meets Haruna, who is learning how to play the guitar from Snow. Woo Joo decides to stay at Pier 34 until he finds Daejung and so begins an unlikely vacation for him.

Japanese woman FL & Korean man ML. Aoi studies photography at a school in Tokyo. She undergoes a heart transplant operation and goes to the island of Okinawa to recover. Her uncle lives on the island. There, she holds a camera and walks along the island. Aoi hears the sound of a trumpet. She looks up and sees a young man playing the trumpet. His name is Ji Oh.

Both FL work with ML
I also think looks are very similar
ML handsome, short black hair
FL not the most confident, short orange hair

-Rebirth
-Ancient China
-Revenge on a jerk ex-husband who is king
-realizes that all along, there was a sweet young man who loved her silently

I really don't like comparing these two because Jark Sadtroo is so much better than TDA but if you want a similar storyline, watch Jark Sadtroo instead its my favorite lakorn and serves many romantic scenes as opposed to The Deadly Affair or should I say *Meena's* affair