Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area - Part 1 (2022)

Thieves overtake the mint of a unified Korea. With hostages trapped inside, the police must stop them — as well as the shadowy mastermind behind it all.

~~ Remake of the Spanish TV series "Money Heist" (La Casa de Papel)

Thieves overtake the mint of a unified Korea. With hostages trapped inside, the police must stop them — as well as the shadowy mastermind behind it all.

~~ Remake of the Spanish TV series "Money Heist" (La Casa de Papel) [2017].

Once a month, students at Baekyeon Girls' High School cast their votes in a popularity poll. The result? A brutal ranking system that determines the entire social hierarchy of the school.

Sung Su Ji has just transferred and scores a zero. After starting at the bottom and becoming a target of school violence, can Su Ji make her way to the top of the pyramid? Or will she topple the game altogether?

Both series are action thrillers with violence, death, and crime. Park Hae Soo plays a main role in both.

About six people who find themselves trapped in a maze-like cube and have to figure a way out, while evading fatal traps. Six people are locked in a mysterious cube shaped room. These 6 people are: 29-year-old engineer Yuichi Goto, 37-year-old association employee Asako Kai, 31-year-old Freeter Shinji Ochi, 13-year-old middle school student Chiharu Uno, 39-year-old mechanic Hiroshi Ide and 61-year-old company executive Kazumasa Ando. These 6 people are complete strangers to each other. They don't know why they are locked in the room, but they try to escape out of the mysterious cube. If they can't decipher the code, they won't get out of the cube.

Remake of the Canadian movie “CUBE” [1997].

- similar vibes where there's a "central disaster" revolving around politics
- both involve conspiracy and the government
- lots of mindgames & deception
- both suspense/thriller, though money heist is more for mature audiences
- both are adaptations from original shows

As soon as I watched Money Heist, it reminded me of Pied Piper. Both dramas deal with negotiations but Pied Piper is mainly focused negotiation with people in order to prevent bad things from happening.

The both drama showcase fraud for money. Bad lands, the ml and fl are brother sister relationship and commit to fraud.

They somehow share some similarities as both shows are involved with hostage-taking situation which took the part of thickening their plot. A lot of conflicts also take place in the setting that entail each of the characters' roles/stories in surviving every day they went through.

Why Similar: This series involves high-stakes heists and complex plans, similar to the strategic elements in Project Y. The show offers a mix of action and suspense with a gripping storyline.
Plot: A group of robbers with distinct codenames plan and execute a massive heist in a unified Korea.

100 Random participants was chosen to join the surviving game through a game monitor helmet & the winner can obtain Garo gold costume. A must watch dark thriller psychological drama. This not s sequel or prequel from previous Garo series/movie.

Three years have passed since the infamous Battle Royale massacre, and one of the kids that survived the bloody game - Shuya Nanahara - has set up a terrorist group, declaring war on Japan's adults. A new game is established by the government, and the 42 randomly-selected school kids are this time given the task of storming the terrorists' island fortress to kill Nanahara within three days - or they themselves will be terminated.

A group of ninth-grade students from a Japanese high school have been forced by legislation to compete in a Battle Royale. The students are taken to an abandoned island, each given a bag with a randomly selected weapon and a few rations of food and water and sent off to kill each other in a no-holds-barred (with a few minor rules) game to the death, which means that the students have three days to kill each other until one survives--or they all die.

Arisu Ryohei—a listless, jobless and video-game-obsessed young man—suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive. In this strange world, Arisu meets Usagi, a young woman who’s navigating the games alone. After a dangerous game which tests Arisu’s limits, the two set out together to unravel one mystery after another as they risk their lives and confront what it means to live.

Adapted from the manga series "Imawa no Kuni no Alice" by Haro Aso.

Arisu Ryohei—a listless, jobless and video-game-obsessed young man—suddenly finds himself in a strange, emptied-out version of Tokyo in which he and his friends must compete in dangerous games in order to survive. In this strange world, Arisu meets Usagi, a young woman who’s navigating the games alone. After a dangerous game which tests Arisu’s limits, the two set out together to unravel one mystery after another as they risk their lives and confront what it means to live.

Adapted from the manga series "Imawa no Kuni no Alice" by Haro Aso.