Decisão de Partir (2022)

Arthouse films made by two of the most acclaimed Korean directors, Park Chan Wook and Lee Chang Dong. Both films stun viewers with their ambiguity, subtle elements, and unresolved mysteries.

both films are about detectives who fall in love or feel attraction for the main suspect of the investigation, an eventually the real killer, a young woman married to an old rich man.

Both have very strong headed beautiful woman. They fight to survive. They strategies, they plot, they are smooth, they adjust and adapted.

In his Chinese film, "Scent," Park Shi Hoo plays Kang In Joon, a Korean interior designer...who finds love when he meets an innocent Chinese girl...it's directed by Jessy Tseng who directed award-winning art house film Big Blue Lake

Same actress. The facial expression and body language tell the story. Great acting. In both movie, the FL worked her way to her plan, the ML fallen for her beauty and pure look. She got herself in deep water and danger …

Jin Joo is a half-Korean and half-Vietnamese girl who marries a Korean man, Kang Jun Woo, in order to come to Korea to look for her biological father who abandoned her. The drama is not only about her searching for her dad but also about the cultural differences between her and her husband's family.

There is bad blood between the two families, Kim and Kang. The rivalry is even more fueled because Jun Woo's mother used to date Young Min's father but Young Min's mother stole him away from her. Kang Sae Mi is Jun Woo's sister and Kim Young Soo is Young Min's younger brother. They want to get married but both families oppose their marriage which leads to the two young lovers running away and living together.

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.

Slow burn art films. Creates romance not out of overt displays of affection but rather through implication and omission.

They both have similar atmosphere in terms of mystery and attraction. They're both about men being attracted to women who are suspected of a crime.

On a spring day Munakata Ikujou visited an old temple to view a 1000 years old sakura tree. There Ikujou discovered a 3-year-old girl and adopted her as his own daughter. 16 years later, Sakurako has grown up to become a beautiful woman. Sakurako then has a fateful meeting with Takanashi Hiroto. Their pure love begin.

Same actress with dark romantic theme.

A detective falls in love with a murder suspect. The feeling of new found love and the romance thrills the detective but it ends tragically.

Park Eun Woo worked as a doctor in a clinic in Hanoi where he fell in love with a Vietnamese girl Ly Thi Vu. Due to the sudden death of his father, he had to return to Korea in a hurry but the message wasn't related to Ly Thi Vu. His elder brother Park Sok Woo who worked as a farmer in the field was hard pressed by his mother to go to Vietnam to find a wife and he ended up bringing Ly Thi Vu to Korea with the intention to marry her. Song Il Lan was Park Sok Woo's childhood friend and she realized that she was in love with him and he had a similar feeling for her too. When the misunderstanding between Park Sok Woo and Ly Thi Vu got clarified and all truth was out in the open, his mother who thought Ly Thi Vu was going to be her first son's wife and liked her didn't think she was good enough for her second son as he was a doctor. Ly Thi Vu was hurt and returned to Hanoi. Later the mother came to realize her folly and relented. Park Eun Woo didn't want to give up Ly Thi Vu and so he went back to work in Hanoi and search for her

FL kills her husband because she was physically abused by her. She plotted the murder and gets away with the near-perfect murder.

The detective investigating the case falls in love with her but am devastated when he discovers the truth.

Watch this film.

Possible a remake of this (1999) movie... the similarities is uncanny.
A race to find the murder suspect connected to a mysterious women. The detective fall in love with the femme fatale in question.

The Scent (KR-2012) is another must watch!