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Movies Like The King of Minami Returns: A Winning Divorce, a Losing Divorce

If you liked The King of Minami Returns: A Winning Divorce, a Losing Divorce (2018), a movie directed by Toichiro Ruto, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Desperados

    Desperados (2020)

    ★ 6/10

    A panicked young woman and her two best friends fly to Mexico to delete a ranting email she sent to her new boyfriend. On arrival, they run into her former beau, who soon gets caught up in their frantic scheme.

  2. 2The Roses

    The Roses (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while…

  3. 3Young Adult

    Young Adult (2011)

    ★ 5.8/10

    A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.

  4. 4Repast

    Repast (1951)

    ★ 7.6/10

    In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for a brief stay to escape an arranged marriage.

  5. 5Blood and Bones

    Blood and Bones (2004)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in…

  6. 6Love by Chance

    Love by Chance (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Claire, an ambitious pastry chef, is busy running her new restaurant, but her meddling mom is preoccupied with her lack of love life. Without her knowledge, Claire’s mother finds her the perfect man, but when Claire…

  7. 7City Girl

    City Girl (1930)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

  8. 8Love Me Love Me

    Love Me Love Me (2026)

    ★ 6.1/10

    After her brother's death, June moves to Milan for a fresh start, finding comfort in Will, the perfect honor student at her new international school. But when his troubled best friend James—hiding a dangerous life in…

  9. 9The Ramen Girl

    The Ramen Girl (2008)

    ★ 6.6/10

    An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

  10. 10Waitress

    Waitress (2007)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A small town waitress stuck in a lousy marriage finds love when an exciting out-of-towner enters her life.

  11. 11Intolerable Cruelty

    Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

    ★ 6/10

    A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.

  12. 12Yoh! Bestie

    Yoh! Bestie (2026)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Thando is perpetually unlucky in love, but when her bestie returns from his travels with a fiancée in tow, she's forced to face a new emotion — jealousy.

  13. 13Kamome Diner

    Kamome Diner (2006)

    ★ 7.4/10

    On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites…

  14. 14Love Is in the Air

    Love Is in the Air (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.

  15. 15The Wrong Missy

    The Wrong Missy (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A guy meets the woman of his dreams and invites her to his company's corporate retreat, but realizes he sent the invite to the wrong person.

  16. 16White Palace

    White Palace (1990)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction…

  17. 17Obsession

    Obsession (1976)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.

  18. 18The Secret: Dare to Dream

    The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)

    ★ 7.4/10

    A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.

  19. 19The Woman in Red

    The Woman in Red (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10

    When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak…

  20. 20My Sassy Girl

    My Sassy Girl (2008)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A guy has his life planned out until he is wooed, groomed and then dumped by an elusive woman.

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