Both movies are about a teenager male lead coming of age (and incestuous falling in love one with his sick cousin and another with his mother) during the Second War World or the Pacific War.

Both narratives are surrealistic, dreamy and non linear.

They also share strange aesthetics.

Both dramas are about
rape during high school / teenage by a professor or coach
excellent professional female lead
trauma
ptsd
violence against women
family denial and no emotional support to the victim
no emotional support from friends or entourage
coping with trauma
healing

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.

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.