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Legend of the Demon Cat (2017)
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Legend of the Demon Cat (2017)
Original name: 妖猫传
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: China, Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 129 min.
Story: During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with investigating the case and meets up with a monk. The two work together and pull apart the thread of clues to reveal a history of truths leading to the events.
Style: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, tense, surreal, psychotronic, mystical
Plot: poet, magical creature, emperor, investigation, mysticism, supernatural, secret, death, black cat, danger, ghost, mistress, tang dynasty, supernatural power, talking animal, chinese emperor, buddhist monk, cat, talking cat, chinese history, talking animals
Time: 8th century, 9th century
Place: ancient china, china

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, tense and psychotronic films with plots about supernatural, death, fight, supernatural power, danger, escapades and medieval mostly in Fantasy, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Legend of the Demon Cat: Mojin: The Lost Legend (2015), Shadow (2018), The Yin Yang Master (2021), The Untamed (2019), CJ7 (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu.
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: 2010s, 7th century
Place: china, ancient china, asia
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Mojin: The Lost Legend (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 127 min.
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Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: china
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Shadow (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story: About a king who attempts to lead his displaced people out of exile, and those who play a role in his mysterious plans.
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: martial arts, training, medieval, betrayal, violence, death, friendship, asian, doppelganger, murder, civil war, danger ...
Time: turn of the century, 2010s, year 2019
Place: ancient china, china, greece
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The Yin Yang Master (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The world is on the verge of a devastating war with monsters who are coming to retrieve the Scaling Stone. Yin Yang Master Qingming's life is in danger and he travels to different worlds to prepare for the upcoming assaults. On his journey, ...
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Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
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Duration: 132 min.
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Style: stylized, exciting, captivating, serious, detective
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Time: 7th century
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The Untamed (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 50 min.
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CJ7 (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Ti, a really poor construction worker that struggles to keep his son, Dicky, in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
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Time: year 2008, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ghoster (2022)
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The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: China, France, Japan
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
Style: epic, heroic, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
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Iron Mask (2019)
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Style: exciting, entertaining, captivating, tense, happy ...
Audience: family outing
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Time: 18th century
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Duration: 102 min.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
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Duration: 142 min.
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Style: captivating, thought provoking, suspense, exciting, tense
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