Both shows are focused on solving mysterious and strange cases in a historical setting. The main leads are male with jobs in the ministry of crime/punishments. There are multiple detective stories all tied up by a larger overarching story which is solved in the finale. There is little to no romance in both shows.

Both Japanese dramas revolve around food and everyday life. Wakako Zake is about a woman who enjoys drinking and eating different dishes based on how her day went.

Both dramas have a historical setting where mysteries and political intrigue flourish.
TSOMD has 3 main protagonists - an imperial guard, a minister and a detective while Luoyang also has 3 protagonists - an imperial guard, a minister and a mortician.
And most importantly in both dramas the protagonists love food!?

While NTPFP hasn't aired yet, both dramas have similar themes of a tragedy, the main protagonist being a female and being a part of the Novoland universe.

While NPE is based during the last Zheng dynasty of Novoland, NTPFP is based during the Chao dynasty and the beginning of the nine territorial divisions.

This is an older woman younger man romance as well. Similar to 'Are we Allright?', the FL in Fab 30 has also recently broken up & meets a younger man who then goes on to pursue her.

They are both romances between an older woman and a younger man where the younger man pursues the jaded woman.

The detectives in both dramas are happy-go-lucky sort of fellows that get serious when a mystery catches their fancy and cannot suffer injustice silently.
TSOMD is a Chinese historical detective series with no romance but is quite similar to SRI&Joy in the sense that the story creates a relaxed atmosphere rampant with mysteries and a subtle undercurrent of court intrigue.

In both movies, the main character plays shogi.

MCILAL is more of a 'slice of life' drama. It focuses on the life of Kiriyama Rei and how his relationships outside the world of shogi affect him as a shogi player.

Both shows focus on the game of shogi and the lives of shogi players.

Nakimushi Shottan no Kiseki is a motivational story about the persistance of a man as he attempts to become a professional shogi player at the age of thirty five where as Awake is about a young adult who turns to developing a computer shogi program after deciding to quit playing shogi due to being unable to defeat his childhood competitor.

In both shows the main characters play shogi, and one learns about the game upto varying limits.

While Awake is about a shogi player who turns to computer programming, Banjo no Himawari is a murder mystery where a shogi piece is found near a corpse.