Cross-media picks for Richard Kim fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks orbit desire, domestic tension, and the quiet pressures that shape how people love and deceive. Whether it's a marriage tested by a hidden affair, a relationship navigating class and expectation, or a woman weighing duty against what she actually wants, the common thread is candour — stories that don't look away from the messy interior lives of couples and families. Korean drama, literary fiction, and character-driven games all find a place here.
Film
Young Wife
A housemate's arrival upends a quiet household until an unexpected moment of comfort collapses the distance between them.
Film
Swapping Workshop for Middle-aged Couples
A couples' trip becomes a pressure cooker where ambition, marriage, and desire push against each other at once.
Film
A Love Affair Between a Male Friend and a Married Woman
A short, direct film about a married woman and a male friend — and the line between them.
Film
Story of a Horny Wife's Hole
A comedy of mismatched desire and domestic frustration played out with blunt, unsparing energy.
Film
Two-Faced Husband
A portrait of a double life: the respectable surface and the hidden affair running beneath it.
Film
Taming a Young Daughter-in-law
Two households collide when an engaged couple moves in with a father whose own love life complicates things.
Film
Couple Exchange
A wife's search for a solution to her husband's problem leads somewhere she hadn't quite planned.
Film
Erotic In-Laws
A cross-cultural romance built on photographs turns complicated when he travels to Japan and meets her family.
Series
Marry Me Now
A woman building her medical career discovers that family duty and personal desire rarely keep tidy schedules.
Series
Yellow Handkerchief
A man who chose ambition over a ten-year relationship faces the full weight of that choice years later.
Series
Special Lady
A woman escaping her family's scholarly shadow falls into orbit with a charming, disruptive stranger.
Series
Maids
Three women in Joseon navigate class, survival, and love in a world that gives them very little room.
Series
Save The Last Dance for Me
A woman caring for a man with no memory finds herself at the centre of his rediscovered life.
Series
Homemade Love Story
Strangers sharing a building slowly learn each other's edges — and some of them fall in love.
Series
King the Land
A tense inheritance fight frames a class clash between a privileged heir and an employee with an irresistible smile.
Series
Rich Man, Poor Woman
A CEO who can't recognise faces keeps encountering one woman he somehow can't forget.
Game
Kara no Shoujo
A 1956 Tokyo murder investigation, taken on by an ex-cop turned private detective alongside a personal missing-person case.
Game
Needy Girl Overdose
Turn a chaotic girl into a beloved live streamer — and navigate the gap between her real self and the persona.
Game
No More Money - Season 1
After a family's financial collapse forces a move, a twenty-year-old's job choices quietly reshape the household.
Game
Gaokao.Love.100Days
A student pursues a relationship in the hundred days before China's national college entrance exam.
Game
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch. 5 Meakashi
A small Japanese village in June 1983: heat, cicadas, and a pattern of violence nobody can fully explain.
Game
Carpe Diem
A bittersweet story about spending time with a woman who seems perfect — and what perfection actually costs.
Game
Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll
A half-Japanese, half-Soviet student finds his present life colliding with the ghosts of his parents' past.
Game
Super Star
A talent agent builds a celebrity from scratch, learning that the person and the persona rarely stay aligned.
Book
82년생 김지영
Kim Ji-young, an ordinary woman in her thirties, begins to behave strangely — her story told through a doctor's notes.
Book
Ouran High School Host Club
A poor girl at a wealthy school ends up indebted to its all-male host club, disguised as a boy.
Book
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
The Seoul everywoman's constrained life rendered with plain, accumulating precision — the novel behind the film.
Book
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Kim Jiyoung leaves her career to raise a daughter, and the weight of every expectation she ever met becomes visible.
Book
鍵 (Kagi)
Parallel diaries expose a long marriage's erosion as a professor and his wife push desire to its limits.
Book
The court dancer
A Joseon orphan raised at the imperial court navigates love and identity as her world begins to disappear.
Book
Crazy Rich Asians
A New Yorker visits her boyfriend's Singapore family and discovers a world of wealth she never imagined.
Book
Waiting
For seventeen years a doctor loves a woman he cannot marry, while the wife chosen for him waits in the village.
The Korean dramas in this list are the closest starting point — King the Land and Homemade Love Story for warm, domestic romance; Yellow Handkerchief and Marry Me Now for more emotionally demanding family drama. Among the films, Two-Faced Husband and Young Wife deal bluntly with desire and marriage.
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the natural read — a precise, quietly devastating account of a Korean woman's interior life. For something with more romantic momentum, Crazy Rich Asians delivers class clash and family expectation with real wit. The Court Dancer offers a historical Korean perspective on love and identity.
Gaokao.Love.100Days and Carpe Diem are short, emotionally grounded visual novels about relationships under pressure. Kara no Shoujo is darker — a murder mystery set in 1950s Tokyo — but the atmosphere of longing and unresolved feeling will suit fans of intimate, character-driven storytelling.