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Hapkido (1972)
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Hapkido (1972)
Original name: 合氣道
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 they gang assault one of the fighting men. Between the three, they send the aggressors away. Retaliation is heavy: their school is destroyed, and they are banished. They return to China, and start their own school, and set out on good-will visits to the other martial arts schools, only to find that everybody in their neighbourhood is already dominated by the Japanese. They have many kung fu fights to win, before they eventually manage to establish peace.
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, dojo, kung fu classic, female fight, heroes, master warrior, rivalry, murder, teachers and students, human spirit, vigilantism, society, ambition, culture clash, against the odds, hopes, uninhibited rivalry, school, combat, violence, warrior, tough guy, sword ...
Time: 1930s, 30s
Place: china, korea, hong kong, asia, japan
Keyword: chinese, korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, exciting and cult classic films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, fight, heroes, kung fu classic, rivalry and violence mostly in Action, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Hapkido: The Invincible Armour (1977), The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010), Fist of Legend (1994), New Fists of Fury (1976), Shao Lin men (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama
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Duration: 97 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 101 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 100 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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