The Ugly (2025)

- unraveling a murder
- in The Ugly a journalist tries to uncover a murder story, in The Confession it’s a lawyer
- same pace of how the story unfolds
- same kind of genre mystery, thriller and crime.
- in both movies you go back in time and present and see it from different perspectives.

- Both Thriller, Crime.

- Both sons trying to solve a murder case where their fathers are involved in.

- Both series have good actors and story telling.

- In both cases the sons try their best to get to know the truth and getting the larger picture who are all involved.

- In both you get to know the story about the victim.

Differences: Confession is a drama, The Ugly is a movie and has more a steadfast storytelling.

Confession has Lee Jun Ho
The Ugly has Park Jeong-min

Both have a murder case involving their parents
Both series are about trying to solve their mothers murder cas.
Both are a thriller, crime and mystery genre

Differences:
Erased is adapted from a manga
Erased involves time travelling, Ugly takes you back by looking back in the past by memories.
Erased is a micro JDrama
The Ugly is a Korean movie.