Recommandations

Here are the similarities:

- Intelligent plotting of both main characters.
- A clear fight between good vs evil. (and the good people aren't necessarily purely nice and the bad people aren't necessarily purely evil)
- A subtle romance (the romance in NiF is very subtle while in SFD, it's slightly stronger)
- Relationships. Romance, friendships, comrades, etc.
- Politic
- Bittersweet.

Ishihara Satomi plays the main female role in both dramas. the plots are quite different, but if you enjoyed the chemistry between Yamapi and Ishihara, you will enjoy the chemistry between her and Oguri Shun.

Both about basketball. BB has more romance in it. If you like one, you'll like the other.

Director Quentin Tarantino named it, along with Bong's The Host, as one of his Top 20 favorite movies since 1992 This excellent movie (who ages really well like wine:) must have inspired this drama's author in a way It is even said that Signal is the Tv adaptation of Memories of Murder This film deals with the Gyeonggi serial rape and murder case that detectives invistigate on the first 4 episodes of Signal This movie has an amazing cast (Song Kang-HO is brilliant!) and cinematography The rest of the cast is keeping up brilliantly and the ending leaves you speechless The real life case, apparently and sadly the first serial killing case reported in Korea's history was never solved and reached a statue of limitation in 2006 unlike in Signal

Obsession with stock markets, the minds of buying and selling in interesting and intelligent ways! plus the main leads in the same plot again (minds of revenge)...

Obsession with stock markets, the minds of buying and selling in interesting and intelligent ways!

Obsession with stock markets, the minds of buying and selling in interesting and intelligent ways!

Both of them talk about mother problems. How to be a good mother for your child. Every mother has their own policy to raise their child.

Multiple Personality Disorder, Cringe behavoir, back and forth, romance

M is a older Korean drama which has more of a soap opera feel to it but it's worth the 10
40 min episodes.

THE SUSPENSE IS AMAZING

Similar storyline - female lead has a car accident & is given a second chance to live again but has to first live as somebody else

different story, but im sure if you like mask you will love bride of the century,.. the rich girl disappear and the poor girl take her place.. just find watch and find out

Okay, this might seem like the weirdest and inept recommendation you have ever seen. But let me explain:

While I was watching Reply 1988, I would be repeatedly reminded of Nirvana in Fire. At first glance, these two dramas have nothing in common. One is a Korean drama set in 1988 about family and friendship in a tiny social universe. The other is a historical, highly strategic drama set in China at the emperor's court.

However, they are similar in more subtle matters:
Both plots work only because of the tight networks they are set in, in one it is a neighbourhood street, in the other the aristocratic court. What in Reply 1988 is build on social ties, is build upon a political net in NiF.
Then there is the universal and well-rounded plot that involves most humane emotions and ambitions on which the story is build on. This is what makes them similar: There are no big "events" or accidents or villains out-of-the-blue that lead the story, but the people's emotions, ambitions and motifs ARE the story.

Both do not emphasize on the romance, although it is there. And both are written, shot and acted superbly.

You know, it is kind of comparing an absolutely fantastic cheese to an absolutely fantastic cheese-cake. They seem nothing alike, but when you look closer, or taste deliberately, you will "feel" that both were made from the same kind of milk. :)

Both dramas are closely related to books and bookstores with a bit of romance.

both are about fame and power. They may be different films but the gist of the plot is almost the same

both have the same objective , the revenge on people who have destroyed their lives !