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5 Masters of Death (1974)
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5 Masters of Death (1974)
Original name: 少林五祖
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Hu Te et al. escape the burning Shaolin temple after the Qing soldiers destroyed it in Shaolin Temple. The group of 5 decide to develop secret codes to identify fellow patriots, enlist those patriots and eventually meet up again to escape to the south away from the Qings, and also identify the traitor who sold out Shaolin temple. Ma Fu Yi (the traitor, played by Wang Lung Wei), joins the Qing top fighters to eliminate the rebels but is exposed by Ma Chao-Tsing who gets captured by Ma Fu Yi. Hu meets up with a group of Shaolin men secretly posing as bandits to rescue Ma as their leader is killed in the process, thus the bandits join the rest of the Shaolin patriots.
Style: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, kung fu classic, medieval, fight, karate, martial arts training, fistfight, heroes, battles, rescue, master warrior, vengeance, rivalry, danger, mortal combat, evil empire, tough heroes, violent content, revenge, escape, violence, shaolin, shaolin monk, monastery ...
Place: china, asia
Keyword: chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, exciting, realistic and stylized films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, fight, heroes, master warrior, rivalry and kung fu classic mostly in Action, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like 5 Masters of Death: The New One-Armed Swordsman (1971), Executioners from Shaolin (1977), Blades of Blood (2010), Shaolin Mantis (1978), The Shaolin Temple (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The New One-Armed Swordsman (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
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Executioners from Shaolin (1977)
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Duration: 100 min.
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Blades of Blood (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
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Shaolin Mantis (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
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The Shaolin Temple (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
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Duration: 95 min.
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Shaolin Temple (1976)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min.
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Duration: 94 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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