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The Scholar Who Walks the Night (2015)
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The Scholar Who Walks the Night (2015)
Original name: 밤을 걷는 선비
Genre: Action, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: When Jo Yang Sun is driven out of house and home after her father is framed for a crime, she is forced to crossdress in order to make ends meet as a bookseller, where she meets Kim Sung Yeol, a handsome, but mysterious scholar who is actually a vampire. Meanwhile, an evil presence at the royal palace stops at nothing to keep the Crown Prince from claiming his rightful throne.
Style: dorama, sageuk, captivating, exciting, tense, sincere
Plot: joseon dynasty, vampire, vampire human love, immortal, reincarnation, immortality, supernatural power, love, super speed, superpower, love and romance, couples, rivalry, danger, cross dressing, friendship, death, society, bad guy, fantasy life, asian history, gender disguise, king, scientist, woman dressed as man ...
Place: korea
Keyword: korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, exciting, dorama and tense films and TV series with plots about friendship, joseon dynasty, couples, love, love and romance, rivalry and asian mostly in Romance, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Scholar Who Walks the Night: Gu Family Book (2013), Arang and the Magistrate (2012), The Tale of Nokdu (2019), Blood (2015), Iljimae (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gu Family Book (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Story: Gu Family Book is a 2013 South Korean television series starring Lee Seung-gi and Suzy. The fusion martial arts action historical drama is about a half man-half monster who is searching for a centuries-old book that according to gumiho legend, ...
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Time: 16th century
Place: korea
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Arang and the Magistrate (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: South Korea
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Story: Arang and the Magistrate is a 2012 South Korean historical television drama, starring Lee Joon-gi, Shin Min-ah and Yeon Woo-jin. The period horror-romance is based on the folklore of Arang, who died unjustly and returns as a ghost in order to reveal ...
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The Tale of Nokdu (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: While on the run for his life, a young man discovers that the best place to lie low is in a village of widows — disguised as a woman.
Style: dorama, romantic, sweet, exciting, epic ...
Plot: joseon dynasty, gender bending, cross dressing, hidden identity, switching roles, disorder, love and romance, strong female character, pretense, fish out of water, lifestyle, escape ...
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Blood (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: This drama tells the story of a vampire, Park Ji-sang who works as a doctor in a hospital. Yoo Ri-ta is a hotshot heiress doctor, a star physician at the hospital and the niece of the board’s chairman. She’s snooty and cold, but highly capable, ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, romantic ...
Plot: vampire, vampire human love, medical, immortal, doctor, hospital, violence, danger, death, rivalry, friendship, immortality ...
Place: south korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Time: 10th century
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Iljimae (2008)
Genre: Action, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Iljimae is a 2008 South Korean historical action television drama series, starring Lee Joon-gi in the title role of Iljimae, Han Hyo-joo, Lee Young-ah and Park Si-hoo. It is loosely based on a comic strip Iljimae, published between 1975 and 1977, by ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: The story of two vampire brothers obsessed with the same girl, who bears a striking resemblance to the beautiful but ruthless vampire they knew and loved in 1864.
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
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Story: Kim Shin is an immortal “goblin,” and has the rather honorable title of being the Protector of Souls. His roommate Wang Yeo also happens to have the equally lofty, if thoroughly opposing, title of Angel of Death, and he acts as the storied grim ...
Style: romantic, mysterious, emotional, humorous, dorama ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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