Golden Bowl (2002)

Both movies has the team sport of bowling. Both male lead are good at it. Some good and back luck. Some bittersweet, some hardship

Both are Older woman/younger man dramas that revolve around sports. Both couples starts as bickering enemies but end up becoming friends with an undercurrent mod attraction that eventually boils over.

Both Japanese dramas have a couple that involves a married older woman and younger man. In Bijo to Danshi, the pair are working together professionally in the entertainment industry vs Golden Bowl which has two people with separate lives who only met because of their hobby of bowling. The couple begin as bickering enemies, but slowly become friends which eventually becomes more. Both shows have an ensemble cast that are warm and endearing.

The plots of these dramas a are very different, the into thing that was similar was vine from both. In both dramas, you have an older married woman (or recently divorced as in OML) working with a younger man and finding commonalities as they get to know each other. Both are slow burn noona romances.

Both dramas portray slow-burned and more maturely deep romances (instead of the shallow fluff overdoses so common nowadays), and both have sports as a subgenre (bowling here, boxing there)

Another sports centric Japanese drama. Both have eclectic ensemble casts that round out the show and really bring a lot of warmth to the story line. Both of the main couples have slow burn romances where the ML is in the process of trying to forget an old flame.

There are ton of differences in plot between these shows, but Both are noona romances with a couple that is accidentally paired up due to circumstances. Through working with each other, they become friends and eventually lovers.

Both are sports centric dramas with ensemble casts that round out the story lines. The main couples are really well matched in personalities and are really good friends that eventually become more.

Japanese dramas with very very similar vibes, but different plots. Both are slow burn older woman/younger man dramas that put two people from different walks and stages of life in contact. Through their joint experiences, they becomes friends and confidantes.

Similarities: - both dramas give similar vibes - great stories of old times, they're timeless - comedy and drama in one shot - relation of main leads changes through story: from friends to lovers - love triangle - both are worth watching

In this drama based on basketball (and somewhat on the anime Slam Dunk), a Taiwanese national team basketballer. Duan Chen Feng, whose world consists of his 2 greatest loves: basketball and his girlfriend, Xiao Xi. They find their perfect world shattered, however, when on the day of his most important match, Duan Chen Feng has an accident on his way to the competition, and paralyses Angel, who just happens to be the sister of Iceman, his biggest opponent since they were young. To shoulder his responsibilty, Chen Feng leaves school and his basketball so that he can take care of Angel. Xiao Xi, who does not know the reason behind Chen Feng's leaving school and giving up his beloved basketball, is heartbroken and bewildered. At about the same time, Tai Zi, falls in love with Xiao Xi's plucky and determined character.