Characters go through the same situation but I'd say that A Moment to Remember has much solid writing and acting.
One is a heartbreaking movie and the other is a really touching drama. Deal with similar topics like what happens to love and being a couple when a woman has a severe illness. Beautiful Life is definitely worth to watch.
It's not so much about reconciliation between a divorced couple, but A Beautiful Life is rather similar in their exploration of relationships. The protagonists in both films are faced with problems that require love, patience and pure tenacity to be able to endure and overcome and that's probably what draws common ground between the two. Without giving away too much however, I guess you could say that A Beautiful life is also about reconciliation between a couple as there is at some point, a bump in their relationship.
Chizuru, a typical Japanese young female office worker, is socially clumsy, poor at romance and unhappy with her job. Being weary from a busy and stressful city life, she seriously desires to end her life somewhere faraway from the city and leaves for deep in the mountains, where she finds one lonely house. Then she attempts to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills in the guest house but she fails... This is the beginning of her new life.
Matsumura Ryouko is a popular novelist in her 50s who has just found out that she has Alzheimer’s disease. In order to gain some fulfilment in her life, she decides to be a guest lecturer at a university. Through one of her students, she meets a South Korean exchange student, So Chan Hae. As they become closer, they fall in love.
