Both films are love stories set in the 30's (China and Korea under Japanese occupation) in which one of the main Leads becomes emotionally involved with the enemy.
Both movies are about bored, lonely and sad women who fall in love with convicts doing time in jail for murder
Both films explore the hetero-patriarchal perverse sexuality of weak men that can only relate to dolls or mannequins instead of real women.
Both movies are about 3 strangers that go for a road trip, crossing the country.
In both movies there is a trio formed by 2 men and 1 young woman. They form a bond and it's hard to separate from each other.
In both movies there is a trio formed by 2 men and 1 young woman. They form a bond and it's hard to separate from each other.
Both films show how women were used to procreate offspring on a rigid patriarchal society. Once they have served their purpose they are not useful anymore.
A movie about the irreconcilable conflict between a business-thrusting husband and a love-wanting housewife. More deeply, the film questions the husband- wife dynamics in late capitalism and patriarchy and what to do with other aspects of womanhood that not include motherhood.
With the split between North and South Korea isn't families of both sides were torn apart when the country got divided. Both movies narrate the searching of lost family members.
Both films about the relationship of friendship and love between humans and ghosts. In both films, there are humans that can see ghosts and have a positive relationship with the ghost main lead that is a "good ghost".
both films are about detectives who fall in love or feel attraction for the main suspect of the investigation, an eventually the real killer, a young woman married to an old rich man.
Very long film about the daily life of the working class their decline after the industrial factories on the area are closed.
Transgender women as Main Leads
Family estrangement
Maternal bonds
Marginalisation, Transphobia & Discrimination by society and Institutions
Family estrangement
Maternal bonds
Marginalisation, Transphobia & Discrimination by society and Institutions
Both films present the topic of physical appeareance, the relationship with our own bodies in terms of how we are viewed and recognised by others and how we identify ourselves with our own body as part of ourselves.
In The Beauty Inside, the ML, Kim Woo Jin, was played by over twenty-one different actors since the story is about a man who transforms into a different people/ bodies everyday : a man, a woman, a foreigner, even a child. Therefore, he can't have a normal and average life as others.
In The Beauty Inside, the ML, Kim Woo Jin, was played by over twenty-one different actors since the story is about a man who transforms into a different people/ bodies everyday : a man, a woman, a foreigner, even a child. Therefore, he can't have a normal and average life as others.
