Both movies are about 3 different women in different periods of their lives: 20's, 30's and 40's. The movie explores love, work and family relationships for each of them.

Both films are about several old family or society conflicts that emerge during the funeral of one of the main lead's parent (mother or father). Both ML return to their dead parent hometown to do the funeral and problems start.

Post-apocalyptical sci-fi

Cloned humans fighting agains robots that have infested earth

Kung Fu Traveler has a time travel to the past as well

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.