Both films are BL and feature one guy who really loves another but who leaves him in order to pursue a 'normal' life with a woman.

-Violent character
-Graphic content
-Crime spree
-Sexual assault
-Lack of conscience

Innocent men are subjected to physical abuse and torture by police in order to force a false confession.

-Police corruption
-Wrongfully accused
-Innocent man
-Physical abuse during interrogation
-Bad cops
-Human rights issues
-Miscarriage of justice

-Police corruption
-Wrongfully accused
-False imprisonment
-Innocent man
-Physical abuse during interrogation
-Bad cops pin a crime on a man they know is innocent

-Korean historical setting
-Star-crossed lovers
-Same vibes

-Japanese language film
-Stalking/watching a couple
-Peeping Tom
-Sexually explicit

-Japanese language film
-Stalking/watching a couple
-Peeping Tom
-Sexually explicit

-Voyeurism
-Dude in attic watches couple being intimate through hole in floorboards
-Peeping Tom
-Erotic content

Both films feature a mother who is suffering from some form of addiction. She is extremely neglectful towards her son and incapable of taking care of him properly.

-Ruined friendships
-Lack of communication
-Friends to enemies
-School bullying

They are about the same Chinese legend of a tragic love story between a pair of lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Break adds a gay/modern twist.