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Ip Man
(2008)
Yip Man
The celebrated Kung Fu master of Bruce Lee
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Stars: Donnie Yen, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Fan Siu-Wong, Xiong Dailin, Wong You-Nam
Director: Wilson Yip
Writer: Edmond Wong
Language: English
Studio: Showbox Media Group Ltd
Duration: 101
Rated: R
DVD Release: July 2010

Ip Man is a 2008 Hong Kong semi biographical martial arts action film very loosely based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun and the first person to teach the art openly. One of his students was the widely influential and acclaimed martial artist and filmmaker Bruce Lee. The film focuses on events in Ip's life that supposedly took place in the city of Foshan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The film was directed by Wilson Yip, and stars Donnie Yen as Ip Man, with martial arts choreography by Sammo Hung. The supporting cast includes Simon Yam, Lynn Hung, Lam Ka-tung, Xing Yu and Hiroyuki Ikeuchi.
The idea of an Ip Man biopic originated in 1998 when Jeffrey Lau and Corey Yuen discussed the idea of making a film based on Bruce Lee's martial arts master. However, the studio producing the proposed film closed, and the project was abandoned. Producer Raymond Wong decided to develop his own Ip Man film with full consent from Ip's sons, and had filmmakers head to Foshan to research Ip's life. Ip Chun, Ip Man's eldest son, along with martial arts master Leo Au-yeung and several other Wing Chun practitioners served as technical consultants for the film.


Lam Ka TungLi Zhao
Donnie YenIp Man
Ka-Fai CheungEditor
Hiroyuki IkeuchiMiura
Kenneth MakArt Direction
Sing-Pui ODirector of Photography
Simon YamZhou Qing Quan
Fan Siu-Wong
Siu-Wong FanJin Shan Zhao
Xiong Dailin
Ka Tung LamLi Zhao
Kenji KawaiMusic
Chen Zhi HuiMaster Liao
Wong You-Nam
Yu XingMaster Zealot Lin
You-Nam WongShao Dan Yuan
Fan Siu WongJin Shan Zhao
Li ChakIp Chun
Lynn HungZhang Yong Cheng
Yu-Hang ToHu Wei
Tenma ShibuyaColonel Sato
Zhang BoJin Shan Zhao's underling
Siu-Kwan ChanWaiter
Xu Chuan-JianCotton Mill Worker
Shi De-QiangSouthern master
Genre: Kung Fu
Media: Blu-ray
Sound: DTS
IMDb: 1220719