Movies like The Executioner 1974

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The Executioner (1974)
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The Executioner (1974)
Original name: 直撃! 地獄拳
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.
Style: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ninja, fight, kung fu, sexploitation, heroes, gangster, hitman, stoner, leadership, vengeance, rivalry, drug dealing, danger, law enforcement, tough heroes, karate, violence, warrior, tough guy, master warrior, martial arts training, blood, ninjitsu, martial artist ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, rough, realistic and exciting films with plots about martial arts, master warrior, heroes, hand to hand combat, fistfight, kung fu and rivalry mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Executioner: Angry Tiger (1973), Fist 2 Fist (2011), Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004), The Bodyguard (1973), Ong Bak 3 (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Angry Tiger (1973)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong, Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Chang Chen-Wai, a martial arts expert who runs a jade-importing business, follows his missing brother to Thailand and learns he has been murdered. Chang vows revenge.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: martial arts, athlete's life, master warrior, heroes, rivalry, vengeance, working undercover, missing person, gangster, karate, hapkido, kung fu classic ...
Time: 70s
Place: asia, thailand
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Fist 2 Fist (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Still haunted by his failure to prevent the murder of a young couple years earlier, a mixed martial arts teacher must confront the skeleton in his closet when the boy who was orphaned by the killing shows up at his door.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ex-kickboxing champion turned sports photographer Max Havoc again finds himself in Guam on a publicity photo shoot. Max's helpful ways land him in the lives of the vacationing sisters Jane and Christy Goody who have acquired a rare jade dragon, ...
Style: realistic, exciting, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot: martial arts, chase, heroes, gangster, rivalry, danger, kickboxing, violence, martial artist, fistfight, love interest, warrior ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Bodyguard (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to ...
Style: grindhouse, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: medieval, martial arts, yakuza, kung fu, shootout, abduction, showdown, karate, gangster, heroes, one man army, violent content ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, usa, new york, asia
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Ong Bak 3 (2010)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ong Bak 3 picks up where Ong Bak 2 had left off. Tien is captured and almost beaten to death before he is saved and brought back to the Kana Khone villagers. There he is taught meditation and how to deal with his Karma, but very soon his arch rival ...
Style: exciting, captivating, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, fight, muay thai, kung fu, master warrior, mixed martial arts, one man army, heroes, martial artist, supernatural, medieval, vengeance ...
Time: year 2010, 15th century
Place: asia, thailand
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A brother and sister escape from Japanese-occupied Shanghai to Japanese-occupied Taiwan, to stay with their grandfather who runs a Kung-Fu school there. However, the master of a Japanese Kung-Fu school in Taiwan has designs on bringing all other ...
Style: action adventure, cult classic, fast, realistic, serious ...
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The Streetfighter's Last Revenge (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
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62%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Streetfighter (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Terry is a tough mercenary and a master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Terry to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then ...
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Ninja Hunter (2015)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tao, a ninja from the Iga clan, wakes up in a damp cave surrounded by bodies. Suffering from amnesia, he can’t remember how or even why he’s in there, or if he was the perpetrator of the massacre. As Tao tries to solve this enigma, a bizarre web ...
Style: captivating, tense
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Wolfguy - Enraged Lycanthrope (1975)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The incredible Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba is WOLFGUY, the only survivor of a clan of werewolves who relies on his feral, full-moon-activated superpowers to solve mysterious crimes. One night, a bizarre and bloody death in the Tokyo streets ...
Style: psychotronic, cult horror, poliziottesco, eurospy
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Raw Target (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
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Duration: 92 min.
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Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This mid-1970s martial arts classic stars Sonny Chiba as Mu Yun Tek, a young man trained in the Thai fighting style since childhood to one day avenge his parents' death. When a fellow student kills their teacher, Mu Yun's thirst for ...
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Country: USA, Canada, Germany
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
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Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A government law officer is dispatched to bring his brother's killers to justice. On his bloody mission, untold assassins are thrown at him, but to no avail. One by one they are done away with in a most militant style.
Style: exciting, rough, stylized, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense
Audience: boys' night
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
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Style: anamorphic, cult classic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Sister Street Fighter (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. When he is identified and imprisoned, the police pressure his sister, Tina Long, to ...
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s, 20th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: exciting, serious, stylized, bleak, rough ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chan is asked by a young, wealthy lady to take her sick brother to a particular doctor in order to be cured. To reach this doctor, Chan and a handful of travelling companions must pass through bandit-infested wild country. They meet and ...
Style: semi serious, humorous
Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Tiger Claws (1992)
Genre: Action
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The police does not know what to do. They have to deal with a serial killer who aims at martial arts masters. One after another is killed in the same brutal way. This may be a chance for detective Linda Masterson to work on her first murder case. ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Karate for Life (1977)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a dive, he quits in disgust. However, when a friend finds herself in desperate need of medical ...
Style: fast paced, psychotronic
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Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Fearless Hyena (1979)
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: slapstick, action adventure, cult classic, serious, slapstick comedy
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Expert (1995)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It was a brutal murder that sent deranged psychopath Martin Kagan to prison. It was a naive deputy warden that granted him a stay of execution. Now, the police department's tactical defence instructor, John Lomax, wants revenge for his beloved ...
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Way of the Dragon 2 (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A classic tribute to a legendary Kung-Fu master. The high-powered action and deadly fistfights don’t let up for a moment. When all the chips are down, the Dragon Master will prevail!
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Two Champions of Shaolin (1980)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Shaolin warrior Tung Chien-chen is injured in battle against the hated Wu Tang clan, and nursed back to health by a knife-throwing master. As he recovers, Tung learns this deadly art, and also falls in love with his teacher's daughter. But when ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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