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Karate Girl (2011)
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Original name: KG カラテガール
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In Okinawa, Ayaka Kurenai was born in the world’s greatest legendary Karate family. When she was a child, her family was attacked by a mysterious gang that seeks legendary black belt. Her father Soujiro Kurenai was killed and her younger sister was taken in front of her. Time has passed. In Yokohama, she was spending her life as a normal high school girl, hiding her real name and her status as a heir of the legendary Karate family. However, one incident brought her a fateful encounter with her sister who was separated in their childhood. But, her sister was raised as a heartless killing machine by the mysterious gang who took her. .
Style:
unusual plot structure, captivating, stylized, cult film
Plot:
female martial artist, pretty girl, karate, pretty woman, martial arts, kidnapping, teenage girl, schoolgirl, japanese schoolgirl, bandit, sibling relationship, fight, violence, criminal, female fighter, female protagonist, terrorist, police, mercenary, deception, japanese man, showdown, fistfight, twists and turns, suspense ...
Place:
japan, okinawa japan, okinawa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, captivating and suspenseful films with plots about martial arts, fight, violence, master warrior, fistfight, kung fu and brawl mostly in Action, Drama and Sport genres. Some movies like Karate Girl: High-Kick Girl! (2009), Black Belt (2007), Once Upon a Time in China V (1994), Belly of the Beast (2003), Russkiy Reyd (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Martial arts purists -- not to mention fans of miniskirt-clad, high-kicking karate girls -- will welcome the tightly choreographed fight scenes and slow-motion scuffles in this film about a teenage karate phenom eager to take down her older peers. ...
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
karate, japanese schoolgirl, teenage girl, female martial artist, martial arts, rivalry, master warrior, gang, hottie, battles, ambition, escapades ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
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Set in 1932, amid the rise of militarism after the establishment of the Manchukuo colony in Northeast China, the story centers on a trio of karateka. Studying under their aging master in a small dojo in the woods of central Kyushu, Choei, Taikan and ...
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Epic adventure set during a tumultuous time in China, when left without a leader, the cavalry is attacked by the powerful allies and pirate bands. A martial arts master, Wong Fei-Hong and Aunt Yee return to do battle against these evil forces.
Style:
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Time:
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Genre: Action
Country: Canada, Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jake and Sunti go to meet Mongkol, the leader of the Abu Karaf. Mongkol confirms that ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jantapan has worked to corner the narcotics and arms markets. Jake must engage in a battle that will put ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
martial arts, kidnapping, terrorism, rescue, race against time, wiretap, lone wolves, government agency, parents and children, missing person, suspense, espionage ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action
Country: Russia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Nikita, a former Russian Spetsnaz operative, is hired to neutralize the large private security force at a local factory so that his shady employer can extort the business from the factory owner. But Nikita and his group of highly trained fighters ...
Style:
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
FBI agent Tracy Pride is on a mission to capture businessman Jason Slade, who is involved in extortion and murder. Teaming up with her is her sister Joyce, a news reporter; Dragon, Tracy's partner in Hong Kong, and Jake, a bodyguard who worked ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Wong Fei Hung must deal with both foreign threats and the nationalist Red Lantern Society in this continuation of the popular kung fu series.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A police sergant is about to retire. Therefore he only wants to let the time pass by without getting in trouble or even becoming hurt. But this is not so easy as he receives as partner an enthusiastic young, female agent who provokes all kinds of ...
Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
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Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Moments from death a young man is rescued by a renowned warrior. Realizing unsurpassed physical potential in the young boy he trains him into the most dangerous man alive. As he becomes a young man he goes on a lone mission of vengeance against the ...
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
At the end of the 21st century, the world is plagued by a mysterious virus and unusual weather. Genius scientist Dr. Kisaragi creates an android with the code name “Cutie Honey” (Mariya Nishiuchi). The android is unique in that it possesses ...
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
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Story:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The former leader of a commando rescue attempt into Vietnam tries to discover why his squad members are being murdered, one-by-one, after the war is over.
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Genre: Action
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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