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Rating: 6 stars

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All movies seen on 11/27/2023

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Wing Chun (1994)

Directed by Yuen Woo-ping

Action | Comedy | Drama

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

Martial arts expert Wing Chun battles bandits in this magical film that provides as many laughs as it does wallops. Besides horse thieves, Wing Chun must deal with the men around her who simply can’t handle a strong, independent woman. Ultimately, she must dish out “lessons” again and again and again until the respect for her remarkable skills is finally won.

Length 93 minutes

Actors

Michelle Yeoh | Donnie Yen | Waise Lee | Kingdom Yuen | Catherine Hung Yan | Norman Chu | Cheng Pei-Pei | Chui A-Fai | Xu Xiang-Dong | Jin Mao-Heng | Guo Jia-Qing | Zhang Yu-Ting | Yu Bo | Shu Yaoxuan | Yi Zhao | Liu Zhong Yuan

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Happy to be able to watch this at all but the version that was just added to Prime is standard definition and dubbed. And boy does the dubbing suck. It soured the whole movie for me. I hope someone releases a nicely remastered Blu-ray in the original language.

That said, this is pretty fun with some great martial arts fight scenes. The humor is dated and eyerollingly sexist (made worse by the dub presumably) but Yeoh and Yen are great together. They should have made a whole series of buddy cop Hong Kong actioners together.

Great to see Cheng Pei-Pei show up in a nice cameo as well.

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