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Rating: 8.5 stars

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Ip Man (2008)

Directed by Wilson Yip

War | Drama | Action

Most recently watched by sensoria, noahphex, jakeneff, themarc, seanCduregger

Overview

A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. The film focuses on events surrounding Ip that took place in the city of Foshan between the 1930s to 1940s during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Wilson Yip, the film stars Donnie Yen in the lead role, and features fight choreography by Sammo Hung.

Rated R | Length 106 minutes

Actors

Donnie Yen | Simon Yam | Lynn Hung | Hiroyuki Ikeuchi | Gordon Lam | Fan Siu-Wong | Xing Yu | Wong Yau-Nam | Dennis To Yue-Hong | Calvin Cheng | Chen Zhi-Hui | Tenma Shibuya | Li Ze | Li Qi-Long | Zhou Zhong | Zhang Bo | Jin Gang | Lu Kai | Siu-Hung Leung | Liu Ming-Zhe | Zhong Han-Hao | Chen Ka-Da | Wang Xiaofang | Sheng Qirong | Han Mengxin | Xu-Feng Yang | Cai Rongjun | Wang Huiliang | Xu Chuanjian | Ding Yilan | Gu Yin | Mei-Fang Lu | Shi Ruijun | Wang Zheng

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Started this late thinking I’d watch 30 minutes or so but watched the whole dang thing bc it’s so dang good. A Donnie Yen tour de force that puts this in his top 3 performances IMO. Oddly I’ve only seen this once before but it registered so deeply that I still recalled nearly every scene and action beat. Very rare for me anymore.

Also realized that I don’t own this one. Need to rectify that someday. Would love a 4K set of all the Ip Man films.

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