Both movies are about Beijing inhabitants that live in hutongs ( type of narrow street or alley commonly associated with northern Chinese cities). They thematise the lack of privacy and the collective and social pressure.

In a fit of despair, Muraki decides to kill himself and a prostitute he has picked up. However, he loses his nerve and doesn't go through with it. Two years later he runs into her again.

Both are about a suicide pacts between a man and a woman that have just met. They travel together to Hokkaido during the winter season to commit suicide.

Both films talk about the moral dilemma of killing a cub bear. In Ainu Mosir is because it's needed for Ainu's ancestral rites.

Another film about Nichiren Daishoin, Buddhist Monk from Tendai tradition. He lived in Kamakura in 13Century and he taught the Lotus Sutra for mappo period.

evil stepmothers
evil and creepy step brothers
illegitimate child male lead
revenge by control, power and assets management

Both films are about the relationship with their estranged dead Father. In "Move the Grave" they have to relocate the remains. In "Little Big Women" they have to organise the funeral. In both they cremate the body.

1987 deals with similar themes of civil unrest and the important role both students and journalists played in the struggle for democratization under the authoritarian regime of the time by focusing on the historical event now known as the "June Struggle".

Both films are about South Korean Politics in the 80's during the last dictatorship and the transition to Democracy.

Both films are about massive nationwide protests lead primarily by University Students who risked their lives for a freer and fairer democracy in South Korea in the 80's.

Both leads were raised by wolves. In "The sound of the desert", Jin Yu (Cecilia Liu), an orphan girl of Xiongnu ethnicity, was raised by wolves in the desert, until a Han Chinese decided to adopt her.

Both movies are about adoptive parents with an adopted child that are contacted by their biological/ birth mothers because they want to have their child back.