Movies like Karate Warriors
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Karate Warriors (1976)
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Original name: 子連れ殺人拳
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The fourth and final film in the "Street Fighter" series, where Tsurugi protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
Style:
grindhouse
Plot:
martial arts, karate, medieval, fight, kung fu, samurai, gang, yakuza, ancient, gang war, revenge, heroes, violence, warrior, murder, sword, sword fight, master warrior, massacre, drifter, duel, ronin, swordsman, blood, katana ...
Keyword:
gangsters
Most similar movies to Karate Warriors
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about martial arts, kung fu, violence, hand to hand combat, martial artist, heroes and master warrior mostly in Action, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Karate Warriors: Fist of Fury 2 (1977), Champion of Death (1975), Soul of Chiba (1977), Wolfguy - Enraged Lycanthrope (1975), Fist of Fury 3 (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
Plot:
martial arts, karate, kung fu, yakuza, exploitation, guy, mixed martial arts, vigilante, knight, brutality, martial artist, tragic hero ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After Chen Zhen's execution in Shanghai, the Japanese feared that his death would unite all Chinese kung fu schools against them. Fearing this, the Japanese gave orders to the head of the Hong Ku School, Miyamoto (Lo Lieh) to surpass all ...
Style:
fast paced, independent film
Plot:
martial arts, medieval, karate, kung fu, fight, bare chested male, master warrior, heroes, showdown, jeet kune do, vengeance, murder ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After turning down the chance to fight at future tournaments he returns to his simple village life. He ...
Plot:
martial arts, karate, fight, kung fu, violence, brutality, good versus evil, gangster, ambush, fight to the death, historical event, one man army ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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 ...
Plot:
martial arts, fighter, vengeance, showdown, jeet kune do, kung fu master, fight, tough guy, kung fu classic, one man army, kung fu fighting, ambush ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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
Plot:
werewolf, yakuza, martial arts, sexploitation, kaiju, giant monster, explosions, full moon, tiger, torture, singer, revenge ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After avenging the death of his brother, Chen Shen (Bruce Li) returns home from Shanghai. He tells his mother (who went blind from crying over her son's death) that he will no longer fight. However, being a movie with the words "fist" ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
martial arts, medieval, kung fu, bare chested male, vengeance, brother, mother, heroes, wing chun, master warrior, duel, brawl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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
Plot:
martial arts, karate, kung fu, fight, martial artist, legendary hero, martial arts school, kung fu classic, gangster, brutality, violence, tough guy ...
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when they kill both his girlfriend and his best friend, Oyama flees away to a small town where he both learns lessons in martial arts philosophy from a ...
Plot:
karate, martial arts, fight, showdown, katana, heroes, master warrior, dojo, gangster, brutality, violence, blood ...
Time:
1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 ...
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, bloody, stylized, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kung fu, martial arts, karate, samurai, yakuza, mafia, kidnapping, exploitation, fight, violence, violent, vengeance ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
japan, hong kong, bolivia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Drama, Adventure, Action
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Yakuza of Japan has infiltrated the universities of Hong Kong and are conducting illegal activities such as underground bare knuckle fights,gambling and drugs. Hong Kong Police team up with the Japanese Secret Service to bring down the ruthless ...
Plot:
martial arts, yakuza, violence, hand to hand combat, fistfight, martial artist, kung fu fighting, extreme violence, karate, asian, kung fu master, asian man ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is ...
Style:
grindhouse, crime drama, disturbing, fast, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, medieval, exploitation, kung fu, yakuza, karate, fight, knight, underground, vigilante, mixed martial arts, badass ...
Time:
70s
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
This martial arts movie tries to explain the strange death of the international movie star and kung fu master Bruce Lee. Most of the story centers on a former disciple of Lee who launches a private investigation and ends up avenging the brutal death ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
kung fu, martial arts, karate, drug cartel, rape and revenge, crime boss, gangster, violence, revenge, murder, rape, bare breasts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, fight, ninja, sexploitation, heroes, gangster, drug dealing, leadership, rivalry, danger, law enforcement ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tokyo, asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The new police chief (Bruce Li) arrives in a small provincial town. He's been charged with bringing a dangerous gang to justice. But within seconds, the chief provokes a showdown with his lazy deputies. Realizing that they are not up to the ...
Style:
surprise ending, independent film
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, jail, gangster, criminal, massacre, murder, violence, brutality, blood, showdown, jeet kune do ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.
Style:
bloody, stylized, talky, manga, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, assassin, samurai, ninja, father son relationship, weapons, drifter, gory, master warrior, fight, warrior ...
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Wong Fei Hung must deal with both foreign threats and the nationalist Red Lantern Society in this continuation of the popular kung fu series.
Style:
anamorphic, cult classic
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, kung fu fighting, kung fu classic, medieval, wong fei hung, good versus evil, violence, revenge, fight, sword fight, sword duel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea, Taiwan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A training manual supposed used by Bruce Lee himself has mysteriously disappeared and is highly sought after by good and evil alike.
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, friend, violence, master warrior, kung fu fighting, karate, martial artist, hand to hand combat, kung fu master, fistfight, brawl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the ...
Style:
jidai geki, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, shogun, ancient, clan, kung fu, karate, master warrior, ninja master, revenge, warlord, violent content ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, medieval, fight, heroes, master warrior, wartime life, school, murder, heroic mission, against the odds, tough heroes ...
Place:
taiwan, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Films like The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple unite - she is fluent in the crane style of kung fu, he in tiger style. They have a son, but the boy's father is killed by the evil eunuch Pai Mei. Disguised as a girl, his mom trains him in crane style while he secretly learns tiger ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, shaolin, fight, medieval, kung fu classic, wuxia, revenge, exploitation, battles, heroes, one man army ...
Place:
asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in ...
Style:
harsh, intense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, sword fight, violence, martial artist, fight scenes, fight, brutality, samurai, wuxia, master warrior, kung fu classic ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
While transporting funds for independence movement, Lee Han-saeng is shot in the legs by the Japanese military police. He recovers from his wounds with the help of Jang Geo-chil, an independence fighter, and his daughter, Wan-ah. When the Japanese ...
Plot:
bare chested male, violence, martial arts, karate, beefcake martial arts, kung fu, beefcake, tough guy, kung fu classic, fight, taekwondo, martial artist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
One of the last of the Old School Hong Kong martial arts flicks, this one deals with a legendary competition in swordplay and fighting that ends up being fought between two great warriors, a Chinese man and a Japanese man, who, over the course of ...
Style:
manga, cult classic, perverse, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, kung fu, wuxia, medieval, samurai, kung fu classic, cannon, weapons, fight, swordplay, swordsman ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
china, hong kong, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Epic adventure set during a tumultuous time in China, when left without a leader, the cavalry is attacked by the powerful allies and pirate bands. A martial arts master, Wong Fei-Hong and Aunt Yee return to do battle against these evil forces.
Style:
intense, suspense, brutal
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, medieval, one against many, fight, warrior, hand to hand combat, sword fight, mixed martial arts, fistfight, martial artist, corruption ...
Time:
1910s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Movies like Shaolin
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
Plot:
martial arts, karate, kung fu, heroes, master warrior, yakuza, chess, knight, badass female lead, vigilante, strong female lead, female fight ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
Style:
bloody, grindhouse, atmospheric, stylized, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, master warrior, sword fight, ninja, father son relationship, weapons, ronin, kung fu, fight, gory, martial artist ...
Time:
year 1972
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Philippines
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Bruce returns to Manila to investigate the murder of his sister, Susan Chang. On the night of her attack she was helped by an amateur-boxer, Ramon "Rocky" Roblado. Behind Susan's death is the 'Black Dragon Society', who are ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
martial arts, karate, hand to hand combat, bare chested male, death, night, boxer, jeet kune do, violence, martial artist, fistfight, kung fu fighting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A kung-fu master hunts down the villain who killed his mother.
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, bare chested male, martial artist, hand to hand combat, kung fu fighting, brawl, kung fu master, violence, fight, villain, kung fu classic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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