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The Magic Crane (1993)
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The Magic Crane (1993)
Original name: 新仙鶴神針
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On his way to a congress of kung fu masters, an initiate falls from a high cliff, only to be rescued by lovely Tien Lam (Anita Mui), who rides a huge (and sorry-looking) crane. The rest of the movie features a battle between warring martial arts factions, an equally fierce rivalry between the two daughters of the Crane Master, the accidental empowerment of an unprincipled master after having eaten half of a secret scroll, a battle with an immense tortoise whose spleeny vapors save a group of poisoned swordsmen, lots of great aerial fights against nearly invincible villains, and the usual blood spurting from assorted mouths.
Style: exciting, stylized, semi serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, magic, sword, turtle, bat, swashbuckler, superhero, heroes, supernatural, battles, gory, supernatural ability, escapades, rivalry, danger, imaginary, monster, kung fu, violence, cannibalism, giant animal, giant bird, wire fu, gore, adventure
Place: asia, hong kong
Keyword: chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, stylized and suspenseful films with plots about rivalry, heroes, martial arts, escapades, danger, imaginary and master warrior mostly in Action, Fantasy and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Magic Crane: Butterfly and Sword (1993), Zu Warriors (2001), Saviour of the Soul (1991), A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991), The Storm Warriors (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Butterfly and Sword (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dynamo Michelle Khan stars as a loyalist who attempts to keep the King's empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group. Top fight action.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, stylized
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, betrayal, wuxia, dishonesty, heroic mission, female warrior, medieval, tough heroes, good versus evil, master warrior, kung fu, sword ...
Place: hong kong, china, asia
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Zu Warriors (2001)
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story: King Sky (Ekin Cheng), the sole disciple of the Kun Lun Sect, falls in love with his master Dawn (Cecilia Cheung). Dawn is killed when Insomnia destroys the Kin Lun Mountain. King Sky waits for two hundred years and meets Enigma (Cecilia Cheung), ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, epic
Plot: martial arts, save the world, imaginary kingdom, good versus evil, supernatural, rescue, supernatural ability, wuxia, escapades, rivalry, danger, legend ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: china, asia
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Saviour of the Soul (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman blinds a martial arts master and his pupil vows revenge on her. She is forced to abandon her loved ones without explanation in order to protect them from her ill-intentioned pursuer.
Style: fast, semi serious, stylized, futuristic
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, two worlds meeting, swashbuckler, mistaken identity, working undercover, heroic mission, vengeance, vigilantism, superhero, undercover, criminal's revenge ...
Time: future
Place: hong kong, asia
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57%
A Chinese Ghost Story III (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Having slept for a century, the monstrous Tree Devil is now awaken and starts finding lost souls again. One stormy night, a wise High Priest and his student Fong pass by the Orchid Temple and realize that it is haunted. Fong encounters two evil ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, atmospheric, tense, stylized
Audience: boys' night, teens
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The Storm Warriors (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Wind and Cloud find themselves up against a ruthless Japanese warlord intent on invading China.
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, visually stunning, action adventure ...
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Plot: martial arts, wuxia, supernatural ability, supernatural, master warrior, heroes, good versus evil, friends, battles, medieval, imaginary, partner ...
Place: asia, china
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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the fifth century, constant civil war scars western China. To escape death, Ti, a young scout, jumps through a crevice in the Zu mountains where he meets and becomes the apprentice of Ting Yin, a spiritual man with great fighting powers. They ...
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Time: year 1983, 5th century
Place: hong kong, asia, china, ancient china
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Happy Magic (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Nobody knows that Professor Hong Sum Kwai is actually the Water Magician, one of the five elemental wizards. One day, Hong accidentally loses his magical powers, which are transferred to his student Cheng Meisi. The girl happily uses the superhuman ...
Style: humorous, stylized, exciting, semi serious
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Swordsman II (1992)
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jet Li plays Ling, a student from the Blue Mountain school of martial arts, who, along with fellow students and Kiddo, find themselves embroiled in a country-wide political/clan war with the Highlander clan in the forefront of the battle.
Style: cult classic, surreal, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
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Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Heroic Trio (1993)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Tung and Ching were both adopted by the same master. But later Ching was abducted by the eunuch-Chan. Ching grew up and became scientist Li's assistant and Tung married officer Lau. Chat had escaped from Chan at 15 and became a thief-catcher. ...
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Audience: boys' night, teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Blood of the Samurai (2001)
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Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
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Ashura (2005)
Genre: Action, Fantasy
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Duration: 119 min.
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Style: serious, exciting, stylized, suspenseful
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Time: 19th century
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Tai Chi Hero (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Chinese steampunk martial arts blockbuster about the early years of Tai chi master Yang Luchan, the man who founded in the 19th century what has now become the most popular Tai Chi style in the world. The second instalment of the "Tai Chi" ...
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Style: serious, captivating, exciting, epic, stylized
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Death Trance (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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Duration: 89 min.
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A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
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SAGA: Curse of the Shadow (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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Duration: 111 min.
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The One Warrior (2011)
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The One Warrior is a fantasy/action piece that is loosely based on video adventure games. In our story, the character of The One Warrior finds himself in a mythical world where he must destroy the Evil Lord Shoukata, but to do so he must first fight ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting
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