Ip Man is a Hong Kong
martial arts action movie filmed in 2008. The movie loosely portrays the life
of Ip Man, a grandmaster of martial art Wing Chun and the master of famous
action star, Bruce Lee. Donnie Yen, a famous actor who is also a martial artist,
is starring as Ip Man. The film took place in Foshan, China during the Second
Sino-Japanese War. The story opens with Ip Man being a very well known and
respected martial artist in Foshan but sometime people would challenge him,
hoping they would defeat him and take his place but no one did. After a few
years, the Japanese invaded Foshan and took everything the Chinese owns, thus
putting them in poverty, including Ip Man and his family. Ip Man ends up
working as a mine collector and one day, the Japanese came to the mine field
and asked for volunteers to participate in a martial art match (the Japanese General
Miura is a martial art enthusiast) and if they win, they would be rewarded a
bag of rice. This is luxury to them because the Chinese live in starvation
everyday. Ip Man wasn’t interested at first but he joins the match when his
friends are killed brutally and unfairly during the match. Below is the the
link of my favorite scene, where he fights 10 black belt at the same time. This
movie doest not only contain really interesting and exciting action scenes, it also teaches important morals and
it reflects the true historical event on how the Japanese abused their military
power on Chinese during the war.
P.S.The whole movie is
available on Netflix! :D
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