Former classmates reunite in adulthood. Bickering dynamic, begrudging-ish path to romance.
Female lead's have gone through tough times and have also suffered the loss of parent(s).
Female lead's have gone through tough times and have also suffered the loss of parent(s).
Both feature blind women falling for scarred criminal-type men that lie about who they are. The guys both end up in prison while trying to help the girls.
Both star Ishihara Satomi and Aoki Munetaka. They play a married couple in Missing, and bickering coworkers in Pretty Proofreader. Their chemistry in both is great. If Missing gets you down, start PPR to chear you up.
Leads who knew eachother as kids reunite in a school setting. Female leads are both gym teachers and male leads are both rich businessmen. Bickering dynamic between them continues from childhood into adulthood all as romance ensues.
Both are about the female leads getting sucked into a novel they're disappointed with. LGIEF's FL is writing negative comments when she enters, and TSS's FL is writing fanfic to fix the issues she has when she enters. They go along with the story and develop a goofy/banter filled relationship with the second ML of the novels, which later develops into romance. MLs are also both the 'secret' author of the novels in both.
Both of these series have very complex and intelligent writing in terms of framing suspicion. They'll have the viewer convinced of who the killer is based on what they've plainly laid out for us, only to then shock us and turn us on a new path towards someone else- again and again.
Both feature a love story between a blind woman and man who is a gangster/criminal with a scarred face.
Rich male lead feigns memory loss after an accident, poor female lead finds and 'takes care of' him, and they cohabitate while he 'recovers'.
Rich male lead feigns memory loss after an accident, poor female lead finds and 'takes care of' him, and they cohabitate while he 'recovers'.
Two people from different countries meet in Hong Kong, romance ensues.
They both also use english to communicate since neither know each other's language at first. Female leads make an effort to learn more of male leads's language.
They both also use english to communicate since neither know each other's language at first. Female leads make an effort to learn more of male leads's language.
Both star Son Hyun Joo and feature a strained father-son (or father figure) type relationship that results in crime and tragedy.
Leads who haven't seen each other since childhood reunite in adulthood, and initially believe each other to be half siblings. Female lead turns out to be unrelated (biologically) to the main family.