-Peking Opera
-Male playing a female role in an opera is admired and celebrated for his beauty and talent

In both films a truck driver driving through a desert forms a unique bond with a young boy in his care.

-Male sex worker
-Host club
-Explicit sexual content
-Guy who is shy working as a prostitute at first but then finds a rhythm

Both films explore gay love that is set in a historical time period.

Both are Chinese language films that explore gay love set in a historical time period.

Both are Chinese language films that explore gay love set in a historical time period. They both also feature a modern day camera crew as a part of the plot (Mermaid's Jade to a much lesser degree).

-Starring Choi Chul Ho
-Guy obsessed with girl
-Murder

-LGBTQ+
-Japanese language film
-Explicit content
-Unlikely gay relationship develops

-LGBTQ+
-A man in a gay relationship is confused about what he wants i.e., if he wants to be with a man or a woman
-Japanese language film
-Complicated relationship

-LGBTQ+
-Japanese language film
-One man obsessed/in love with another who is more elusive with his feelings
-Explicit sexual content

Both films show the injustices and tortures that occurred in political prisons under the Chun Doo Hwan regime in South Korea in the 1980s. Both are based on true stories.

Both films show the injustices and tortures that occurred in political prisons under the Chun Doo Hwan regime in South Korea in the 1980s. Both are based on true stories.