similar cancer storyline where both the ML had cancer. Both a re tear-jackers too and will have you weeping at some point. However, the filipino movie has a happy ending but the japanese one is a tragic one sadly.

they both had girls who were sold off by their family to repay debt owed. Cubic the man was a mafia in hong kong.

they both have the lucid dreams concept which is the main plot in both. Awaken is about a serial killer who uses lucid dreams as his weapon and convinces people to do dangerous things that are fatal while they are awake in the real world. Lucid is about a man who uses lucid dreams to find his kidnapped son.