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Beach of the War Gods (1973)
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Beach of the War Gods (1973)
Original name: Zhan shen tan
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A sort of re-telling of Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai”. This time the protagonists are a group of Chinese villagers who must band together to recruit outside help to defend themselves against marauding Japanese pirates demanding protection money. Set in year 1556, it’s supposedly based on true events occurring during the twilight of the Ming Dynasty.
Plot: martial arts, swordplay, fight, samurai, pirate, sword fight, japanese occupation, war, fencing, band
Place: japan, china

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out grindhouse, serious, exciting and stylized films with plots about martial arts, fight, kung fu, sword fight, samurai, kung fu classic and fighting mostly in Action, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Beach of the War Gods: Return of the Chinese Boxer (1977), Shaolin Invincibles (1977), The One-Armed Boxer (1972), The Big Fight (1972), Ninja 6: The Last Iga Spy (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Return of the Chinese Boxer (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In wake of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), a group of Japanese warlords calculate that the best way to prepare an invasion of the rest of China from their southern Manchuria staging ground.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, samurai, fight, handicapped, supernatural, kung fu, injustice, tough heroes, battles, heroes, uninhibited rivalry, athlete's life ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Shaolin Invincibles (1977)
Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Judy Lee (Chia Ling) is out to avenge the massacre of her family by the Emperor's men and is assisted by another young woman, played by Lung Chun Erh. The two infiltrate the Emperor's court by posing as maids. Carter Wong plays a kung fu ...
Style: independent film
Plot: fight, revenge, kung fu, martial arts, kung fu master, sword fight, king, heroine, emperor, gorilla, female martial artist
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The One-Armed Boxer (1972)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Tien Lung, the best fighter at the Ching Te martial arts school, gets into a fight with the Hook Gang, part of a local opium-dealing and prostitution ring run by a man named Chao, and easily defeats them. The beaten Hook gang members return to Chao, ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, medieval, wuxia, violent, exploitation, fight, kung fu classic, boxer, handicapped, disabled, disabled character ...
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The Big Fight (1972)
Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This film is set during the Japanese occupation of China circa WWII. In it, the Japanese occupiers (and the Chinese Quislings who work for them) are portrayed as total monsters who kill children and rape all women. The heroes are resistance fighters ...
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, world war two, fistfight, kung fu fighting, fight, kung fu classic, brawl, jeet kune do, japanese occupation, fighting
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Ninja 6: The Last Iga Spy (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: [Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an ...
Plot: ninja, samurai, swordplay, martial arts, samurai sword, father, samurai era, japanese history
Place: japan
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The Odd Couple (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Hailed as possibly the greatest classical weapons movie ever made and starring world-renowned martial arts master, director and action-choreographer, Sammo Hung. This film showcases some of the most spectacular and intricate weapons duels ever ...
Style: slapstick, slapstick comedy
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, fight, kung fu classic, swordplay, student, fighting
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The Chinese Boxer (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lei Ming, a noble young martial arts student who doesn't know the meaning of giving up. He faces a treacherous, blood-thirsty Japanese karate expert, which leads to many memorable battles as well as several unforgettable training sequences.
Style: grindhouse
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, exploitation, asian gangster, kung fu classic, mixed martial arts, sword fight, casino, samurai, sexual assault, artist, gambling ...
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Shanghai 13 (1984)
Genre: Action
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A patriot finds evidence that the government is collaborating with a foreign power. If the people knew about the deception, they would revolt and overthrow the corrupt government. One patriot in office steals the proof and must make it out of the ...
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, fight, kung fu classic, corrupt politician, group, politician, blood, strangulation, assassination, poker, warehouse ...
Time: 1930s
Place: shanghai
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61%
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Sword of Destiny (2021)
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Duration: 93 min.
Story: The peerless swordsmith, Meng Yezi, suffered the calamity of family extermination from the traitor Zhao Han served in the court for casting the famous Hanguang Sword. He desperately saved his son Meng Yang and left him the unforged Chengying Sword. ...
Style: captivating, entertaining
Plot: medieval, martial arts, samurai, master warrior, vengeance, sword fight, teamwork, revenge, sword, battles, fight, warrior ...
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60%
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Ninja Kill (1987)
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Story: An army of evil purple ninjas do battle with sadistic yellow ninja to stop an assassination plot.
Style: independent film
Plot: ninja, martial arts, assassination, politics, politician, car chase, sword fight, senator, assassination plot, farmer, fight
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Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A one-armed martial arts master is being stalked by an Imperial assassin, the master of two fighters (the Tibetan Lamas) who were killed in the previous film. When the One-Armed Boxer is invited to attend a martial arts tournament, his efforts to ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, fast paced, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kung fu, martial arts, wuxia, exploitation, medieval, violent, fight, violence, flying guillotine, blood, revenge, badass ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Shogun's Shadow (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Iemitsu, Tokugawa Shogun III, hates his eldest son Takechiyo; all his love is given to his younger son Tokumatsu. One day, he orders Takechiyo to an initiation rite in Yedo (today's Tokio). Takechiyo lives far away under the surveillance of ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, asian history, countryside, tokugawa shogunate, edo period, journey, fight, live action, band, fighting
Time: 17th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Sword of Swords (1968)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A noble swordsman fights to recover the magical blade that has protected his country for centuries after being blinded and betrayed by a ruthless villain. A cunning killer has blinded the brave warrior chosen to defend his country with an enchanted ...
Plot: wuxia, martial arts, kung fu, swordplay, tragedy, sword, sword fight, betrayal, revenge, violence, blood
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Subterranean (2017)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a world where the past does not exist in a city that oppresses its subject who completely block out the past...the only hope is to unleash the Ancient book! The ruler of the city Heras controls the mind of the people and make sure that nothing in ...
Plot: sword fight, martial arts
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, serious
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, kung fu, yakuza, katana, exploitation, ancient, wuxia, swordplay, drifter ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Queen of Fist (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Local gangsters apply pressure to the wrong family when they realize that the leader of the family is a mother with powerful kung fu skills.
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, revenge, young romance, fight, woman fights a man, fighting
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One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An evil gang attacks the Chi school of Golden Sword Kung Fu. One student sacrifices his life to save his teacher and his school, his dying wish is that his son be taken in as a student. Young Fang Kang grows up in the school and treasures his ...
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Place: asia, china
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The notorious “One-Armed Swordsman” who has spent the last two years retired from the martial world as a simple farmer with his wife. Of course this idyllic life is about to be sliced to ribbons by Chang’s wicked imagination. He concocts a ...
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Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: independent film
Plot: martial arts, superhero, kung fu, secret formula, hunger, formula, fight, fighting
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Genre: Drama, Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This martial arts spectacular showcases 20-year-old Erh Tung-sheng (a.k.a. Derek Yee). Even Variety noted: "Erh's charismatic screen presence should take him to superstardom like his older brother, David Chiang." The prediction proved ...
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Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, ...
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Plot: samurai, japanese history, medieval, martial arts, tokugawa shogunate, edo period, swordplay, ancient, katana, samurai era, sword fight, warrior
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Place: japan, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Watch WANG YU as a one-armed savior battling the local goons in this martial arts classic. He has some rather amazing moves up his sleeve.
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 126 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, exciting
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Warlord Yu Ming gained great power for himself. Anyone he suspected of disloyalty was jailed or murdered. He himself was a notorious killer, having personally betrayed his friend General Yip and then slaughtered his entire family. But the ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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13 Assassins (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Action
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Duration: 125 min.
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Time: 19th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action
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Duration: 93 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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