Movies like Kung Fu Kids Break Away
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Kung Fu Kids Break Away (1980)
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Original name: 三毛流浪記
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The evil Mr. Chu's control of a village is challenged by a Korean wanderer named Eagle and the three Kung Fu Kids.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
martial arts, village, kung fu, children, forest, torture, teenage girl, orphan, cult, korean, beggar, swashbuckler, street performer, pretending to be blind, protection money
Place:
korea
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Most similar movies to Kung Fu Kids Break Away
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, serious, humorous and semi serious films with plots about kung fu, martial arts, fight, rivalry, heroes, kung fu classic and gang mostly in Action, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Kung Fu Kids Break Away: The Thundering Mantis (1980), Enter the Fat Dragon (1978), Mad Monkey Kung Fu (1979), The Big Fight (1972), The Impossible Kid (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ah Chi (Ka-Yan Leung) is obsessed with the martial arts and, more often than not, his kung-fu clowning gets him into trouble. Ending up facing Hsia (Eddie Ko) of the notorious Jade Brotherhood is inevitable. As a result, Hsia forces Chi's ...
Plot:
kung fu, martial arts, medieval, exploitation, kung fu classic, fight, orphan, praying mantis, gang, farce, child murderess, child murders an adult ...
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95%
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 ...
Style:
parody, cult film
Plot:
kung fu, martial arts, fight, satire, kickboxing, karate, bruce lee, gag humor
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94%
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 film
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, fight, medieval, monkey, kung fu master, kung fu fighting, martial artist, gambling house, fistfight, master warrior ...
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74%
Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This film is set during the Japanese occupation of China circa WWII. In it, the Japanese occupiers (and the Chinese Quislings who work for them) are portrayed as total monsters who kill children and rape all women. The heroes are resistance fighters ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, world war two, cult, jeet kune do, brawl, kung fu fighting, fight, kung fu classic, fistfight, japanese occupation
Place:
china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Weng Weng plays an agent, code-named “00” who works for the Manila branch of Interpol. The Chief sends him in pursuit of an arch villain, Mr X, whose white sock covered head is reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan’s pointed hoods. When Mr X holds ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
martial arts, interpol, exploitation, ransom, james bond spoof, spy, little people, cult, violence, female nudity, dwarf, kung fu ...
Place:
the philippines, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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 ...
Style:
semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, fight, kung fu classic, farce, adopted son, drunk, tough heroes, master warrior, heroes, ambition, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karate experts attempt to rescue a girl who was kidnapped by a mother and her two psycho sons.
Style:
campy, cult film
Plot:
martial arts, kidnapping, fistfight, karate, hapkido, martial artist, master warrior, cult, soldier, bound and gagged, kicked in the butt, roundhouse kick ...
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58%
Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The complicated story involves the military conquest of a peaceful island-nation by an evil despot and his sorcerer ally. His victory leaves the island's three heroic protectors dead, but, their young children are hidden away to grow to ...
Style:
serious, exciting, humorous, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, battles, heroes, escapades, rivalry, legends and myths, infiltration, magical mirror, cult, royalty, conqueror ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, orphan, fight, revenge, martial arts training, tough heroes, heroic mission, siblings relations, legends and myths, heroes ...
Time:
70s
Place:
asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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:
serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, school, medieval, fight, kung fu classic, heroes, wing chun, leadership, rivalry, vengeance, murder ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Seven child martial arts experts try to return a stolen diamond to its rightful owner.
Plot:
child martial arts, martial arts, kung fu, ninja, fight, gangsters, nunchaku, child protagonist, child fighting adult, diamond, black man, female martial artist ...
Place:
hong kong
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51%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Professional assassin Drew Fontaine puts her talents to her own ends to pay off those involved in killing her Buddhist mentor and maybe in the disappearance of her father. Amongst those in the frame are a crowd of somewhat dysfunctional lesbian-led ...
Style:
psychotronic, parody, campy, cult film
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spy, strong female lead, cia agent, neo nazi, porn industry, killer, torture, lesbian, electrocution, female killer, lesbianism, violence ...
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51%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young daydreamer assumes the identity of a dead martial arts hero and quickly finds himself caught up in a plot by several clans to steal famous martial arts artifacts being transported by an escort company.
Style:
semi serious, stylized, humorous
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, tough heroes, righting the wronged, against the odds, heroic mission, working undercover, master warrior, heroes, vengeance, track down, undercover ...
Time:
70s
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An aged Kung Fu practitioner travels across China, challenging the best Grandmaster from each province to prove his mastery of martial arts. Meanwhile is a plot developing behind his back.
Style:
road movie, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, kung fu classic, graphic violence, retiring, tough heroes, ambition, aging, contests and competitions, heroes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
china
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47%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 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:
serious, realistic, stylized, epic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, wing chun, fight, kung fu classic, karate, vigilantism, golden years, ambition, good versus evil, womanizer, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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.
Plot:
martial arts, fight, kung fu, martial artist, kung fu master, wing chun
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45%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The incomparable martial arts expert, Bruce Li, stars as a wealthy hero who defends his village from the assaults of ill-wishers.
Style:
serious, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, heroes, gang, gangsters, rivalry, village life, village, heroic mission, fight, master warrior, blind man ...
Time:
70s
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45%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Two rivaling families live on opposite sides of a river. One of them practices Shaolin kung fu and has only sons, while the other has only daughters and practices the Wu-Tang sword. The father of the Wu-Tang family is so paranoid about the Shaolin ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, medieval, samurai, fight, shaolin monk, heroes, master warrior, village, shaolin, track down, leadership ...
Time:
80s
Place:
asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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:
realistic, semi serious, exciting, humorous
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, medieval, shaolin kung fu, fight, ninja, kung fu classic, samurai, graphic violence, hopes, rivalry, good versus evil ...
Time:
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Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a young man's village is destroyed by a band of thugs, he seeks help from a great kung-fu master, but his real lessons come from a drunk old man, he basically learns kung fu by accident and seeks his revenge.
Plot:
martial arts, fight, showdown, brawl, kung fu master, fistfight, bully, monastery, tough guy, kung fu, republican era china, stylized violence
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A rich man's son (Yuen Biao) believes himself to be the best kung fu fighter in Canton. Unfortunately, his father, anxious for his son's safety, bribes all his opponents to lose. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of an actor in a ...
Style:
serious, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of police women keep the city safe. A normal day day includes everything from battling robbers to going undercover to break up a arms deal that threatens the city.
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42%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The third installment in the Lucky Stars series, following Winners and Sinners (1983) and My Lucky Stars (1985)... The team are released from prison to play detective in order to stop a ruthless gang from ruining their reputations, taking their ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, humorous
Plot:
martial arts, fight, kung fu, fight scenes, transvestism, gang, disorder, undercover, law enforcement, nothing goes right, partners, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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, republican era china, gunfight, railway, warlord, arms deal, heroic bloodshed, fight, sacrifice ...
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41%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Polly Shang Kwan and Sam Hui are con artists who befriend a family of street venders and entertainers. The group constantly faces financial problems as they are ripped off by thugs, their rent is raised and car breaks down. Polly Kuan (who portrays ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two elderly Taoist priests, Chi Men (Leung Kar Yan) and Dun Jai (Yuen Cheung Yan), who learn their magic from the same teacher always quarrel with each other. They provide mirth and expert kung fu tuition to young man (Yuen Yat Chor) who is ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Comedy
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young Chinese nobody sets out to become a Don in the Italian Mafia. It turns out that earning respect, finding love, and discovering his identity doesn't come so easy. He'll have to fight his way to the top.
Style:
parody, cult film
Plot:
love, farce, kung fu, organized crime
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40%
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Here Chang Siu Tai (Alexander Fu Sheng) is the son of Master Chang (played by Ku Feng), a renowned chiropractor/bone-setter operating a clinic in a poor neighborhood in an unidentified city in early 20th century China. Siu Tai works for his father ...
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Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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