My Name

My Name (2021) and Ballerina (2023) are both South Korean action-thriller projects featuring strong female leads who embark on a journey of vengeance.

1. Lead Actress:
In both projects we can see a tough protagonist, portraying fierce, action-driven female characters seeking revenge.

2. Revenge Thriller Theme:
My Name follows a woman who infiltrates the police to avenge her father’s death.
Ballerina follows a woman avenging her friend’s death.

3. Intense Action and Gritty Storytelling:
Both feature brutal fight scenes, neon-lit aesthetics, and themes of crime and vengeance.

4. Netflix Originals:
Both are Netflix-produced, contributing to their global popularity.

While they aren’t directly connected story-wise, their similarities make Ballerina feel like a spiritual successor to My Name, especially with Jeon Jong-seo’s intense performance.

Both leads are cops, using that to cover their unlawful goals. Both seeking revenge and justice in their own style. Both darker themed shows.

both have a strong lead character, both of which physically fight. and they both involve the topic of revenge

Both dramas are about kids who stumble upon their murdered parents. In both dramas these kids grow up promising to avenge their parents by murdering the culprit. In both dramas they start to become involved with dubious methods to do so. In both dramas the culprit turns out to be someone very close to them, with a very similar reveal.
The biggest difference is that "Ryusei no Kizuna" follows three siblings and has a balance between humour and suspense, while "My Name" is solely serious.

Both of these shows have:
- Under cover cops
- Dealing with mole & gangsters
- People getting betrayed

There is a lot of gunfight, action and suspense in both drama and one of the leads live a double life. They doesn't contain a lot of romance.
SPOILER: The main male lead dies by guns in both drama. The female lead lose almost everything.

The female lead trained and work hard, ended up with the villain. Both started as young innocent and became sophisticated mature strong mind, kind hearted woman

What if the young person join the wrong gang? Can gagsters or mafia switch side? What a person fighting for? When the truth review, gangster became hero

If you like the main male lead in “My Name”, which many of you did. You should watch his other project like this one. This was his early project. He is versatile veteran actor in Korea

Regarding the 1st arc of My Name (ep 1 1/2). After the murder of her father, FL joins an organization (in K:AotN it's the military while in MN it's a gang) in order to become stronger and find out what happened to her father. There she is mistreated by her peers.

Both women in both movie were trained to fight. Tough training. Backstory. Revenge good and evil person surrounding both has kind of same lips. Determination, strong will

Both offer a mix of intense action, intricate plots, and compelling characters that fans of "Trigger" might appreciate.

Just an undercover cop film. The undercover cop know how dangerous their job is but couldn’t get out

The female lead is a cop who goes undercover to uncover the drug lords. Badass female lead and the male lead is clueless about her being a cop.

both have strong female leads with a tragic back story
both have male leads that have a strong sense of justice and become interested by the cold female leads
they have similar vibes in terms of the plot and are both on Netflix