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Fist of Legend (1994)
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Original name: 精武英雄
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in fact military occupation- after reading about the death of his kung-fu master Hou Ting-An in a fight against the Japanese champion Ryuichi Akutagawa.
Style:
exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, breathtaking, intense, stylized, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, vengeance, good versus evil, heroes, fist fighting, duel, occupation, master warrior, society, rage, humiliation, folk hero, rivalry, imperialism, poisoning, uninhibited rivalry, acceptance, kung fu, sword fight, brutality, violence, death, tough guy, warrior, soldier ...
Time:
30s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
china, asia, japan, hong kong, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, stylized and realistic films with plots about rivalry, kung fu, martial arts, violence, heroes, vengeance and hand to hand combat mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Fist of Legend: The Chinese Connection (1972), Tai-Chi Master (1993), Martial Arts of Shaolin (1986), Once Upon a Time in China (1991), Ip Man (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Chen Zhen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on ...
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. When one betrays the other, they settle their ...
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stylized, serious, exciting
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler at the ruler's extravagant public birthday celebration. Two other men from the south Shaolin temple also set out to assassinate the ruler, but all three fail and are ...
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exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
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martial arts, shaolin monk, soldier, shaolin, shaolin kung fu, kung fu, tough heroes, palaces castles and temples, adventure, track down, heroes, assassination attempt ...
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Place:
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52%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Set in late 19th century Canton this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung (1847-1924) against foreign forces' (English, French and American) plundering of China.
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epic, stylized, serious, realistic, exciting ...
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boys' night
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martial arts, school, racism, tragic hero, one man army, master warrior, rivalry, vengeance, culture clash, clinic, recruit, apprentice ...
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china, asia, hong kong, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second ...
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china, asia, hong kong, japan, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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41%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Chen is a city boy who moves with his cousins to work at an ice factory. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fight. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the main contender. When ...
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boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, History, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the sequel to the Tsui Hark classic, Wong Fei-Hung faces The White Lotus society, a fanatical cult seeking to drive the Europeans out of China through violence, even attacking Chinese who follow Western ways. Wong must also defend Dr. Sun Yat ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Korea, 1934. During the Japanese occupation, there is open warfare between rival martial arts schools. There is a fight in the marketplace, and three Chinese students can't stand the unfair way of students that side up with the invasors, when ...
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized
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boys' night
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Pai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom trains him in crane style while he secretly learns tiger ...
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38%
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
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In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
Style:
stylized, talky, clever, serious, suspenseful ...
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boys' night
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japan, asia, tokyo
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32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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32%
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Hong Kong, China
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Story:
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
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Story:
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Story:
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