Set Play and Call Boy are both films about young male prostitutes that sleep with older women. In Set Play de ML is a minor, in Call Boy the ML is an university student. Both show explicit sex scenes.
DEFAULT is bout the economic crisis that led to the IMF bailout, an event that brought many foreign investors into the Korean marketplace in an attempt to stabilize the economy. The results impacted the average Korean family in a multitude of ways, especially to the tune of price hikes and large-scale unemployment. Black Money, also based on a true story, was born out of the lingering residual effects of that crisis.
Both are about a relationship between a transgender and teen. In both, the mains leads develop a mother- daughter bond.
Crimson Bat is a blind female lead that becomes a swordswoman using a cane-sword for her protection. There are 4 Crimson Bat movies.
It narrates the daily life of several young people moving from the countryside to work at Beijing World Park, where you can witness life-size replicas of wonders from across the world. The park represent China’s desires and ongoing process of becoming a new global center.
"Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks" is nine hours long, the film consists of three parts: "Rust," "Remnants" and "Rails." It's difficult to resume but the main theme is a detail exploration of the slow decline of Shenyang's industrial Tiexi district, which was once a vibrant example of China's socialist economy.
During World War II, a Japanese man accepts to work as supervisor in iron ore mine in Manchuria to avoid to be summoned to the military service and fight as Japanese soldier.
He witnesses the oppression Chinese mine workers go through everyday. They are considered war prisoners and live in a war camp.
He witnesses the oppression Chinese mine workers go through everyday. They are considered war prisoners and live in a war camp.
Like the Japanese Ballad of Narayama, Kim Ki-young’s Goryeojang (???) envisages a world in which the old are expected to sacrifice themselves for the young, but unlike either Keisuke Kinoshita or the later Shohei Imamura, Kim struggles to find nobility in adherence to such a cruel and inhuman tradition.
in both dramas the main leads are in different time lines and connect through a cell phone to try to change the past and the future. In this drama they are teenagers in the past and young adults in the present/future.
Dystopian thriller about fallen people, marginals and debtors who can't live anymore in the mainstream society.
The ML is drown in debts and can't pay the loansharks. He's rescued by a man who offers him to live in in a mysterious town where they can live without worries. He discovers he can't return to his previous life and that he's trapped in the city.
Lot's of similarities in the way they arrive to the city/ island, the way they are controlled by microchips in their heads, the tasks they have to perform in the island/ city that undermines or destroy their own sense of morality, ethics and self-esteem.
Both show how certain organisations takes advantage of getting rid of all the people that have no productive value in mainstream society.
The ML is drown in debts and can't pay the loansharks. He's rescued by a man who offers him to live in in a mysterious town where they can live without worries. He discovers he can't return to his previous life and that he's trapped in the city.
Lot's of similarities in the way they arrive to the city/ island, the way they are controlled by microchips in their heads, the tasks they have to perform in the island/ city that undermines or destroy their own sense of morality, ethics and self-esteem.
Both show how certain organisations takes advantage of getting rid of all the people that have no productive value in mainstream society.
Both films are about Japanese going to remote villages in China. In Birds People in China, the ML, a young Japanese salary man goes to evaluate precious Jade mines.
in this drama the Male Lead is also in love with the female lead since they were children. The difference is that the FL also was in love with him.
In both dramas the adult FL are hard working and independent, as children they were leading the relationship with ML.
In both dramas the adult FL are hard working and independent, as children they were leading the relationship with ML.
