Movies like The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance (1998)
The best movies like The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance (1998) are Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Port Authority (2019) and Blood-C: The Last Dark (2012). If The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedViolet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)8.3/10 from 562 votes
- NewestWeekend in Taipei (2024)Released 2024
- In JapaneseFuneral Parade of Roses (1969)Also in Japanese
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPort Authority (2019)
Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlood-C: The Last Dark (2012)
Tokyo, Winter. Despite the use of the Youth Ordinance Bill to enforce curfews for minors and regulate the use of the Internet, young people continue to fight for their own freedom through underground methods. One such group calls themselves Surat. They have decided to take on Fumito Nanahara, a man who has great influence on the political world, and basically controls Tokyo with an iron fist. While using the Internet as a weapon to discover more information about Fumito, they learn about "Tower", the secret organization behind Fumito which engages in human experimentation.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDetective Conan: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure (2007)
The Isle of Koumi, a beautiful island in the Pacific Ocean. On the island, people pass an old legend down from generation to generation that there was the Seabed Palace, an ancient ruin at the bottom of the sea, where the treasure of female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Reed was left. When Conan and his friends visit Koumi while on vacation, they meet some suspicious treasure hunters.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEvery Day (2018)
16-year old Rhiannon falls in love with a mysterious spirit named “A” that inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and “A” work each day to find each other, not knowing what the next day will bring.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGreen Lantern: Beware My Power (2022)
Recently discharged Marine sniper John Stewart is at a crossroads in his life, one which is only complicated by receiving an extraterrestrial ring which grants him the powers of the Green Lantern of Earth. Unfortunately, the ring doesn't come with instructions - but it does come with baggage, like a horde of interplanetary killers bent on eliminating every Green Lantern in the universe. Now, with the aid of the light-hearted Green Arrow, Adam Strange and Hawkgirl, this reluctant soldier must journey into the heart of a galactic Rann/Thanagar war and somehow succeed where all other Green Lanterns have failed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGalaxy Express 999: The Movie (1979)
In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's death. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBleach the Movie: Fade to Black (2008)
A strange disturbance in the World of the Living sends Ichigo and Kon to the Soul Society, where the Seireitei has been devastated by an explosion of reishi and Rukia is missing. Stranger still, none of the Soul Reapers remember Ichigo, and they think he’s the one responsible for the destruction. Now on the run, Ichigo is forced into a lonely battle in order to find Rukia and stop the real culprits!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBoy Meets Girl (2014)
In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJust Charlie (2017)
Football star Charlie has the world at her feet. With a top club desperate to sign her, her future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager sees only a nightmare. Raised as a boy, Charlie is torn between wanting to live up to her father's expectations and shedding this ill fitting skin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJustice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)
After the events of Justice League: War, Ocean Master and Black Manta have declared a war against the surface in retaliation of the aftermath of Apokoliptian-tyrant Darkseid's planetary invasion. Queen Atlanna seeks out her other son, Ocean Master’s half-brother Arthur Curry, a half-human with aquatic powers with no knowledge of his Atlantean heritage, to restore balance. Living with powers he doesn’t understand and seeing the danger around him, Curry takes steps to embrace his destiny, joining the Justice League, and with his new teammates he battles to save Earth from total destruction.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCat Soup (2001)
The surreal black comedy follows Nyatta, an anthropomorphic kitten, on his travel to the land of the dead and back in an effort to save his sister's soul.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisViolet Evergarden: The Movie (2020)
As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisOne Million Yen Girl (2008)
A 21-year-old girl is released from prison, only to deal with the neighborhood gossip about her and family conflicts. She decides to save one million yen, move to where no one knows her and keep repeating the process.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWeekend in Taipei (2024)
A former DEA agent and a former undercover operative revisit their romance during a fateful weekend in Taipei, unaware of the dangerous consequences of their past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFemale Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRocko's Modern Life: Static Cling (2019)
After 20 years in space, Rocko returns to a technologically advanced O-Town and makes it his mission to get his favorite show back on the air.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnseen (2023)
Sam receives a call from Emily, a near blind woman who is running from her murderous ex in the woods. Can she survive using Sam as her eyes via video call?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn Like Flint (1967)
Flint is again called out of retirement when his old boss finds that he seems to have missed 3 Minutes while golfing with the President. Flint finds that the President has been replaced by an actor and that a group of women have banded together to take over the world through subliminal brainwashing in beauty salons they own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance?
The closest matches to The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance are Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Port Authority (2019) and Blood-C: The Last Dark (2012). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance?
Start with Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), the closest match to The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance.
What is the highest-rated movie like The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance?
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020), rated 8.3/10 by 562 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance?
Weekend in Taipei (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance?
Yes: Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Blood-C: The Last Dark (2012) and Detective Conan: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure (2007).
How are movies similar to The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.