Sorum is a horror movie about a poor taxi-driver that moves into a creepy apartment. His apartment was formerly occupied by a writer who burned to death in his room.

Another story about cross star lovers between different countries. "Apolitical Romance" is about a Chinese granddaughter looking for his Grandmother first love in Taiwan.

Peppermint Candy shares the same structure and tone as Cities of Last Things. In the Korean film, major events in Korean history influenced his central character’s tortured soul.

In Ash is Purest white, film director Jia Zhangke uses the same narrative technique : going backwards in time to the most important moments of main female protagonist.

If you want to see another film that uses the same technique -a film that moves back in time in a triptych of pivotal days- but sequentially you can watch Jia Zhangke's Mountains may depart.

Both films directed by females filmmakers.
Bothe films are about modern and anti-patriarchal famous women writers who have sad love experiences, struggles with poverty in daily life, fight for life and die from cancer.

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and to locate their mentor.

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes Japan's most powerful warlord, unifying the country. Rikyu, through the tea ceremony and floral arrangements, tempers his lord, helping Hideyoshi focus on a single flower or be in a simple room where the shape of a cup is of most importance. But other forces fuel Hideyoshi's ambitions: the Portuguese bring a globe and guns, and he believes he can conquer Korea and China. When Rikyu raises doubts about invading China, Hideyoshi demands an apology, and Rikyu himself must find courage in the way of tea (Source:IMDd).

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.