Both are inspiration, not exactly the same. Chinese one start from zero. Desperate to raise money for sister. The Japanese one start a band despite all the challenges

Not exactly the same but both are inspiration. Go for your passion and what you are good at. The Japanese Itoichi is about music. She has support from her father. The Chinese one lost his parents at young age, extreme poor and determination

Both are true story about a young man decided to do something, despite against the odd, challenges, he persuade his passion. It also takes the support of his friends and teammate. It is inspiration king of movie

Both are comedy about Lost in foreign land. It also touch on the topic of son and mother’s relationship. Also friendship developed even with language differences.

Both movies spent over 50% of the time on a train.. both are quite a watch. Fun, interesting, good acting fun watch.

The main characters in both movies are “Kopino” They are unfortunately poor and minority in Korea. Talented but facing life challenge. Tough kids

Both main leads in both movies are “Kopino”- mixed race Korean and Pilipino. . Both has Filipino mother. Both were very poor. Both became boxer or got into boxing fighting

Both main lead are American Korean. One is American born Korean, the other is Korean Born raised in American. Both has jail setting and complicated storyline.

Both movies about searching for father in China. One is modern more relaxing, the other one is classic Chinese war movie.

One of the story in Move to Heaven touch the same tragedy of Korean infant got adopted from American family. The different is that James Parker was lucky to be adopted by great parents. The story in Move to Heaven was adopted by abusive parents, etc…

An adult child looking for a parent. Love and family separated. Multi countries involved. Heartwarming stories. Several none-approval events in the stories.

Both movie has story about searching for a parent. Parent in foreign country. Parent that never met. With hope and unknown. Heartwarming and full of culture movies