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Tai Chi II (1996)
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Tai Chi II (1996)
Original name: 太極拳
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young Tai Chi master fights Opium smugglers with the aid of his powerful braid while wooing a girl.
Style: exciting, rough, captivating, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, fast
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, tai chi, kung fu, fight, rebellion, heroes, undercover, teachers and students, escapades, rivalry, drug dealing, wiretap, danger, wooing, daring rescue, power relations, colony, historical event, hair, opium, british soldier, wire fu, young, adventure
Time: 90s
Place: china, asia, hong kong

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, semi serious, humorous and realistic films with plots about rivalry, martial arts, heroes, kung fu, fight, master warrior and danger mostly in Action, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Tai Chi II: House of Fury (2005), Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978), Return to the 36th Chamber (1980), Dreadnaught (1981), Dance of the Drunken Mantis (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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House of Fury (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Teddy Yu is a former secret agent turned chiropractor who thought he left his past behind. He teaches martial arts to his two kids. However, his past catches up to him as a rogue agent demands to know the whereabouts of an agent known as Dragon. ...
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Place: asia, china, hong kong
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Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978)
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: fast, semi serious, stylized, humorous, slapstick comedy
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, tough heroes, righting the wronged, working undercover, against the odds, heroic mission, danger, save the day, master warrior, one man army, gang ...
Time: 70s
Place: asia, hong kong
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Return to the 36th Chamber (1980)
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 ...
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Time: 18th century
Place: china, asia
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Dreadnaught (1981)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A short-tempered, violent criminal named "White Tiger" is on the run from the police and joins a theater troupe for disguise, killing anyone who angers him or who suspects his identity. One person he unsuccessfully tries to kill several ...
Style: serious, exciting, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, wong fei hung, kung fu classic, fight, criminal, psychopath, heroes, vengeance, gang, undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong, asia
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Dance of the Drunken Mantis (1979)
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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 ...
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Time: 70s
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Legendary Weapons of China (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 109 min.
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Style: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting
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Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (1978)
Genre: Action, Comedy
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Duration: 97 min.
Story: Everyone abuses and humiliates a downtrodden orphan (Chan) until he befriends an old man, who turns out to be the last master of the "snake fist" fighting style. Jackie becomes the old man's student and finds himself in battle with ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, grindhouse, cult classic, fast paced ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 2016
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The Master (1980)
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 ...
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 88 min.
Story: A businessman and his sister-in-law are targeted for assassination by a band of evil ninjas and their vicious leader (Yasuaki Kurata). The ninjas are committing bizarre murders all over the city, and the police can't seem to pick up their trail ...
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Country: Hong Kong
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
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