15 Movies Like 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope
Loved 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
Milky☆Subway: The Galactic Limited Express - the Movie
Six delinquents are tasked with cleaning a train as part of a community service program. But when the train suddenly takes off, chaos ensues.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Door
Yasuko, a housewife, lives in an urban high-rise apartment with her husband Satoru and her son Takuto. Annoyed by spam calls and door-to-door salesmen, Yasuko slams the door on a salesman’s hand when he tries to squeeze a flyer through the apartment's chained front door. He leaves, but the next day, her nightmare starts.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Howl's Moving Castle
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to fighting for the king.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Dollhouse
After losing their child, a mother finds solace in a life-sized ancient doll she finds on the market. When a new daughter enters the family's life, strange things begin to happen and no matter how hard the family tries to get rid of it, the doll always finds its way back.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Exit 8
A man trapped in an endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don’t, carry on. Then leave from Exit 8. But even a single oversight will send him back to the beginning. Will he ever reach his goal and escape this infinite corridor?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Solo Leveling -ReAwakening-
Over a decade after 'gates' connecting worlds appeared, awakening 'hunters' with superpowers, weakest hunter Sung Jinwoo encounters a double dungeon and accepts a mysterious quest, becoming the only one able to level up, changing his fate. A catch-up recap of the first season coupled with an exclusive sneak peek of the first two episodes of the highly anticipated second season in one momentous theatrical fan experience.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Princess Mononoke
Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Zatoichi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Lucky Sky Diamond
At the clinic where her boyfriend Katayama, a young genius doctor, is the director, Yoko, a young girl who continues to suffer from eerie nightmares every day, is not getting better despite the care of her sister Sakurako and Katayama's treatment. Sakurako, the sister, is suspicious of Yoko's condition and confronts Katayama, who tells her that she suffers from a serious mental disorder and that the only way to cure it is to have brain surgery. Yoko, despite being persuaded by her sister and Katayama, agrees to the surgery, although she is skeptical...
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Suzume
Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of Japan, and so Suzume embarks on a journey to set things right.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Ghost in the Shell
In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster' begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Akira
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Cosmic Princess Kaguya!
Iroha's life gets knocked off its orbit when Kaguya, a carefree runaway from the Moon, moves in and convinces her to perform in a virtual world together.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.
Scarlet
After failing to avenge her father's murder, Princess Scarlet, wakes up in the "Land of the Dead." In this world filled with madness, if she does not achieve her revenge against her nemesis and reach the "No End Place," she will become "Void" and cease to exist. Can Scarlet find a way to live at the end of her endless journey?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to 20th Century Boys 2: The Last Hope.