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Enter the Fat Dragon (1978)
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Enter the Fat Dragon (1978)
Original name: 肥龍過江
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ah Lung is a pig farmer and a devoted Bruce Lee fan who is anxious to follow in Lee's footsteps, but only ridiculed for his attempts. He is sent to the city to earn a living working at his uncle's restaurant, but when he arrives, he finds a gang of thugs causing trouble in the restaurant. He takes the chance to prove himself and attacks the thugs, defeating them and saving the restaurant. Soon, he becomes a waiter, and discovers a plot by the same thugs to kidnap a woman he works with. Eventually, he defeats the thugs once again and saves the day.
Style: parody, spoof, slapstick comedy, cult film
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, fight, karate, kickboxing, city, satire, gag humor, fighting
Keyword: bruce lee

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slapstick, slapstick comedy, grindhouse and exciting films with plots about kung fu, martial arts, fight, fighting, kung fu classic, master warrior and rivalry mostly in Action, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Enter the Fat Dragon: Kung Fu Queen (1972), Mad Monkey Kung Fu (1979), The Odd Couple (1979), Pedicab Driver (1989), The Magnificent Ruffians (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kung Fu Queen (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Fan Kao-to is a worker who had enough of corruption in Shanghai. He tries to crush the organization alone. An attempt has been made before but ended up with the big Axe Gang, several of their brands in the man. The man's sister arrives in ...
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, boxer, fight, kickboxing, revenge, female martial artist, fighting
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Mad Monkey Kung Fu (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A disgraced former Kung Fu expert makes a living as a merchant with the help of a hot headed friend. When the men are harassed by gangsters, the merchant decided to teach his friend monkey boxing so they can defend their business.
Style: cult classic, grindhouse
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The Odd Couple (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Hailed as possibly the greatest classical weapons movie ever made and starring world-renowned martial arts master, director and action-choreographer, Sammo Hung. This film showcases some of the most spectacular and intricate weapons duels ever ...
Style: slapstick, slapstick comedy
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, kung fu classic, swordplay, student, fighting
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Pedicab Driver (1989)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lo Tung and his friend Malted Candy, pedicab drivers working the streets of Macao, have both fallen in love. The problem is that both their objects of affection - one a baker, the other a prostitute - are working under cruel and lecherous bosses. ...
Style: slapstick, slapstick comedy, eighties
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, prostitution, wuxia, abusive boss, foreplay, revenge, violence, implied sex, stick fight
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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The Magnificent Ruffians (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Venom regulars Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng, and Sun Chien star as a gang of unemployed martial artists who spend their days stuffing their faces at local restaurants and letting the staff beat them up instead of paying the bill. Their fortunes appear ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, karate, suicide, fight, double suicide, framed for murder, fighting
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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The Master (1980)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Gao Jian is a lazy and arrogant student of the martial arts school ran by vain Si Fu Shi Chen-chung. One night after his punishment in his school a wounded man reaches his house. He is Jin Tien-yun, a legendary warrior fleeing from a fight in which ...
Style: serious, grindhouse, slapstick, slapstick comedy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, orphan, fight, karate, revenge, martial arts training, daring rescue, imaginary, vigilantism, escapades ...
Time: 70s
Place: asia, china
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82%
The Gambling Ghost (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sammo Hung plays three different characters: Fatty, Fatty's father and Fatty's grandfather, Hung Kau. Fatty is a hotel worker, yearning for sudden wealth. Therefore, he, and his co-worker, enter the gambling world, to the dismay of his ...
Style: slapstick comedy, sitcom
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set in the waning years of the Ching Dyansty, this dramatic, tragic, romantic, blood-soaked martial arts tale of betrayal and revenge explores one of the most sensational scandals in Chinese history and marked the true ascension of its director and ...
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, ambition, bandit, qing dynasty, fighting
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Princess and Seven Kung Fu Masters (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During the early years of the Republic era, in the North-East region of China, the people are suffering from the power struggle among the local Warlords, bandits, and Japanese invaders. Warlord Lam (Sammo Hung), is not a leader of great vision, but ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, semi serious, captivating, satirical
Plot: kung fu, medieval, martial arts, master warrior, battles, kung fu fighting, princess, fight, satire, warrior, kung fu master
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Shaolin Challenges Ninja (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gordon Liu stars as a Chinese martial arts student struggling to relate to his new Japanese wife. When a series of martial misunderstandings spirals into an international incident, he's forced to take on seven of Japan's most powerful ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, stylized
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ninja, martial arts, kung fu, nunchaku, kung fu classic, fight, ninjitsu, strong female lead, exploitation, wuxia, bohemian, swordplay ...
Time: 1930s
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The Anonymous Heroes (1971)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A perennial Chang Cheh favorite, Anonymous Heroes focuses on two vagabond brothers, Meng Kang (David Chiang) and Tieh (Ti Lung) who, in the search for fame and fortune, join in a rebellion against a provincial general. Used to shaking down local ...
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, train robbery, revolution, violence, sacrifice, train, warlord, heroic bloodshed, fight, arms deal, republican era china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Warriors Two (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In an attempt to save his village from being taken over by brutes, Wah is beaten to a pulp and his mother brutally murdered. Determined to take revenge, Wah learns the art of Wing Chun and enters into a showdown with the nasty villains.
Style: fast, serious, realistic, stylized, epic
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jackie Chan stars as a hot-shot lawyer hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, Jackie is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty ...
Style: neurotic, exciting, semi serious, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, lawyer, factory, kung fu fighting, art, cons and scams, dishonesty, hand to hand combat, gangster, courtroom ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The workers of a dye factory have their pay cut by 20% when the factory owner brings in some Manchu thugs to try and increase production. Desperate to reclaim their full wages, the workers hire an actor to impersonate a priest and kung-fu expert ...
Style: grindhouse, fast, semi serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Dirty Ho (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
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Country: Hong Kong
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: cult classic, serious
Audience: boys' night
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54%
The 36 Crazy Fists (1977)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The plot is a trifle about an obnoxious restaurant delivery boy causing trouble with some local bad guys for the cook who secretly knows kung fu, eventually learning some techniques and finally, with the cook, confronting the bad guys.
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51%
The Fearless Hyena (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Action
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jackie Chan is a youngster, living in a remote vllage with his grandfather who teaches him Kong-Fu (naturally). He keeps getting into fights, even though his grandfather warns him not to show their Kong-Fu to others. Jackie, though, is tempted by ...
Style: slapstick, action adventure, cult classic, serious, slapstick comedy
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Dance of the Drunken Mantis (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A year after training young Jackie Chan in the Drunken Fist, Sam the Seed discovers he has a son, Foggy. He tries to train Foggy but to no avail. Foggy is then trained in Drunken Fist from his uncle as he must face his father's rival, Rubber ...
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
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Country: Hong Kong
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Style: slapstick comedy, slapstick, detective
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
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44%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
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Style: action adventure
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Brutal Boxer (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The bloodiest Kung Fu battles ever fought. The subtitle says it all, as there is hardly any story, but all the more raw fighting.
Plot: heroes, master warrior, boxing, kickboxing, violence, combat, showdown, tough guy, kung fu, martial artist, martial arts, mixed martial arts ...
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43%
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