Recommendations

Both works are about a former distinguished samurai reduced to poverty traveling with a child that needs to be protected from those trying to kill them.

Both works follow the lives of two known samurai retainers as they struggle during the Boshin War and cope with their losses.

Both works are set in the era and tackle the Boshin War, the Meiji restoration, as well as the assassination of Lord Okubo.

Both works are set in the era and tackle the Boshin War, the Meiji restoration, as well as the assassination of Lord Okubo.

Both works are set in the era and tackle the Boshin War, the Meiji restoration, as well as the assassination of Lord Okubo.

Both works are set in the era and tackle the Boshin War, the Meiji restoration, as well as the assassination of Lord Okubo.

Both main lead in both drama are conductor. Talented. Music OST and orchestra performance are amazing.

- Older man/younger woman
- ML is the emperor's brother
- Both MLs seem cold and aloof but are actually gentle and sweet
- ML has a chronic illness that FL helps cure
- Resourceful and cunning FL
- Power

Plots are different.

The similarity between the drama Escape (2025) and The Kidnapping Day (2023) is that the kidnapping victims end up trusting their kidnappers more, even becoming close friends. Eventually, they work together, forming a solid team built on mutual trust. In addition, the kidnappers actually end up protecting their hostages.

- FL tortured and killed by her husband and sister
- FL is reborn and seeks revenge
- Both FLs are strong, reserved, and cunning
- ML seems cold and aloof but he's actually gentle and sweet
- ML is older than FL
- Somewhat taboo romance (in TFFStF he's her ex-fiance's uncle while in RFTA he's pretending to be her uncle)
- Smart and cunning power couple

- A lot of couples
- Same energy
- The interaction between the leads
- Strong and cute characters
- University

- Also set during a time of foreign invasion of Joseon (by the Manchu/Qing)
- Great action scenes
- Beautifully shot

Noble/rich male lead thinks the woman he loves has died.
Years later he comes across a lowborn/poor girl who looks identical to her.
Female lead has lost her memories and does not know she truly is male lead's long lost love.

I'm adding this for the same reasons I added the first season of "Tientsin Mystic": same author as "Mountain God", same era, similar genre and topics.

The book this is based on was written by the same author who wrote "Tientsin Mystic". Both are set in the Republican Era and have a lot of similar themes: they are dramas with supernatural and horror elements who explore topics such as friendship, identity, societal expectations, revenge, and local myths and legends, as well as the space between dreams and reality.