Both are about a little girl being abused by her mom and step-dad until someone steps in and takes her away in order to save her.
Both are about a teenage girl contemplating suicide after being singled out and bullied by her classmates.
Both depict a mother and son with a strained relationship that turns incestuous.
Both depict extreme cases of a teenage boy being bullied by his classmates. No one helps or believes them, and even their own mothers abuse them from time to time.
Both depict quiet teenage boys who struggle with loneliness and survival.
Both are about a young boy struggling to survive without parents.
They both have same director. They both deal with love and duty vs honour, and a lower caste samurai being asked to kill someone he is reluctant to.
same director - same themes of love and difficult decisions about honour
Both have the same director and are about low ranking samurai who deal with love, impending poverty, and honour.
both films are directed by Kurosawa Kiyoshi and star actor Show Aikawa. They also both share the theme of a father who kidnaps a man whom he thinks to be his daughter's killer.
Both movies share the theme of a young guy sent to prison who is given a hard time by other inmates
Both movies are based on the life of Yoshi Shiratori, an anti-hero in Japanese culture, who is famous for having escaped from prison four times. Both movies show a special relationship between a prison warden and one of his inmates, who is constantly trying to escape while being abused by the prison staff.
