Both taiwanese movies have the same kind of love triangle and Joseph Chang plays one of the main characters.
Both are taiwanese new wave films with a complicated love triangle and an lgbt main character. Themes of friendship and (unrequited) love take center stage in both movies. Both also feature Kwai Lun Mei in a main role.
Kerou is a sullen teenager who tries to act as a go-between when her shy friend Yuezhen falls in love with Zhang. Kerou approaches Zhang on her friend's behalf, but the boy likes Kerou instead and doesn't want to hear about Yue Zhen. As Zhang is the popular kid at school - a swimmer with an easy way about him - Kerou thinks she should be happy, but she's not. She is beginning to realize she has feelings for her friend Yue Zhen.
Looking for something to do during the summer, Akihiko Suzuki teams up with four girls, Namie, Natsumi, Mishio, and Komugi, and a guy named Kosuke, to start a little cafe down by the beach. Actually, he is more interested in girls than the job. They used to ignore him, but by working at the cafe, he hopes to start a friendship with them.
Aoyama Haru and Kagaya Kaede have been friends since they were 4 years old, when they began living next door to each other. They are now 24-years-old and still live in the same apartments. Kaede has held feelings for Haru for the past 20 years, but Haru doesn’t seem to realize her feelings for him. She talks about this situation with her childhood friends Iori and Mio and decides to give up on her feelings for Haru. But, it's not easy for Kaede to disconnect her feelings for him. Meanwhile, Iori has liked Kaede since he was an elementary school student. He approaches her. Seeing this, Haru becomes disturbed. In fact, Haru made a promise with Kaede’s late mother and he is honoring it.
Suzuri Kanna is married to Suzuri Kakeru. After 15 years of marriage, Kakeru suddenly dies in an accident. Prior to the accident, their marriage was going through difficulties and they were on bad terms with each other. Now, Kanna is about to start her new life. At that time, she obtains a way time travel through time. She travels to the past and she meets young Kakeru, right before she met him for the first time. Seeing the younger Kakeru, she realizes that she loved him and she falls in love with him again. She decides to save him from his death that happens 15 years later.
Miyu and Shuya are high school students. They have dated for 2 years. Miyu and Shuya have a promise that no matter what, they will watch a movie together on the first day of each new month. When Miyu and Shuya are on their way to the movie theater, Shuya suddenly cancels their date. Shuya seems like he is hiding something and he acts nervous. Later, Miyu goes to the place where she is supposed to meet Shuya, but she witnesses Shuya getting into a car accident. She panics, but when she wakes up she finds herself on the morning of the accident. Miyu keeps waking up on the day when Shuya got into an accident.
Masaki is about to move to the U.S. with his parents, much to the dismay of five girls who all like him in different ways. Tomboyish Takako always gives him a hard time; Haruna is a childhood friend; Alisa has fancied him since a shopping trip in nearby Shibuya; Naoko is still readjusting after a long spell in the U.K.; and Yumi likes practicing basketball with him at night. All wonder who his "special girl" is, but Masaki isn't saying.
