Ip Man: Final Fight

[GeneChing]

This is not part of Donnie's soon-to-be trilogy, but the sequel to Ip Man: The Legend is Born (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57189).


“Ip Man: Final Fight” – In Production (http://www.asianmoviepulse.com/2012/08/ip-man-final-fight-in-production/)
Posted August 28, 2012 by kingofkungfu in Hong Kong/Chinese News

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Ip Man: Final Fight is the latest movie in production, but this is not part of the Donnie yen series, yet another spin off from the success of the movies like Ip Man – Legend Is Born.

The three leading actors in the movie are Anthony Wong, Gillian Chung and Jordan Chan, all which have studied Wing Chun before the filming of the movie. Anthony Wong will play an older version of Ip Man whilst Gillian Chung and Jordan Chan will play Yip’s students. The cast also includes Anita Yuen, Eric Tsang and Timmy Hung.

Also out this year is the movie Grand Masters, another movie based on the legend of Ip Man, which will star Tony Leung and of course Ip Man 3 – 3D, as Donnie Yen steps back in to play probably the biggest part in his career.

The movie will probably be released sometime in 2013.

[GeneChing]

Well, that's going to confuse some people. Oh right. That's the point. :rolleyes:

"Ip Man 3" to premiere at HKIFF (http://sg.entertainment.yahoo.com/news/ip-man-3-premiere-hkiff-055200591.html)
From Cinema Online Exclusively for Yahoo! NewsroomBy Syahida Kamarudin | Thu, Feb 28, 2013 1:52 PM SGT
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"Ip Man 3" to premiere at HKIFF

28 Feb – The highly anticipated movie, "Ip Man: The Final Fight" is finally ready for release and will premiere at the Hong Kong International Film Festival on 17 March.

Jayne Stars website reported that the movie, a direct sequel to the 2010 prequel film, "The Legend is Born – Ip Man" stars Anthony Wong instead of Donnie Yen in the role of Ip Man.

Produced by Checkley Sin and directed by Herman Yau, the movie features Ip Man as an aging Wing Chun hero, and focuses on his final years in 1950s Hong Kong, where he attempts to establish his own martial arts academy against an economically-challenged environment in the restoration age post-World War II.

Checkley Sin, who was also a disciple of Ip Man's son Ip Chun, expressed, "This will be the last Ip Man movie I will invest in. This film is different from other Kung Fu and action films. There are some aspects of Ip Man that others still don't know about, and I want to present them in this film."

He continued, "The Final Fight is a film that is able to tell the complete life of Ip Man. As a loyal Wing Chun practitioner and successor of Ip Man, I believe that The Final Fight will be able to provide a perfect ending to his legendary story."

The movie, filmed at the RMB 1.4 billion Xiqiao Dreamworks Studios built by Hong Kong's National Arts Holdings in Xiqiao, Guangdong, also stars Eric Tsang, Anita Yuen, Gillian Chung, Jordan Chan, and Wong Cho Lam.

It will be released in Hong Kong cinemas on 28 March.

[doug maverick]

on the one hand i like to see anthony wong doing more kung fu roles(he is actually well versed in tai shing pek kwar) the only one he did before this was that stephen fung, spy kids rip off, which was pretty cool. on the other hand... enough ip man movies...

[Jansingsang]

This is a lot better than the last rubbish released out there Ip 2 , Grandmaster Takes its time abit but once going, makes you see why VT became popular in Hong Kong

Click continue as free user :)

http://www.sockshare.com/file/39DBC5D7A1F97809#

[Yoshiyahu]

What do you think about the new IP Man moive called Final Fight?

[Paddington]

I am not a big fan of the Ip Man movies, I think they do a disservice to wing chun. Further, I feel they encourage all the 'fake' sifus we are starting to see and enables marketing strategies such as those used by Sam Kwok; he dresses up like Ip Man in the movies now and performs demos to the sound track.

[LFJ]

I am not a big fan of the Ip Man movies, I think they do a disservice to wing chun. Further, I feel they encourage all the 'fake' sifus we are starting to see and enables marketing strategies such as those used by Sam Kwok; he dresses up like Ip Man in the movies now and performs demos to the sound track.

LMAO! He looks so silly in his long dress doing his slap-fu.

[Almost A Ghost]

What do you think about the new IP Man moive called Final Fight?

As movie on it's own: I found it pretty boring, every fight scene had a good build up but just fell flat.

As an Ip Man movie/franchise: I would probably rank it second below Donnie Yen's movies, slightly better than The Grandmaster (although it probably had some of the most interesting cinematography I've seen in a long time), but definitely above The Legend is Born. I'm sure this isn't the last franchise to be made.

[Paddington]

LMAO! He looks so silly in his long dress doing his slap-fu.

BTW I am not joking. Youtube has many clips and one recent one done in London.

[LFJ]

BTW I am not joking. Youtube has many clips and one recent one done in London.

I know! That picture came immediately to mind. lol

The song played on repeat for over 15 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V3lpIe8LwQ

[GeneChing]

IP MAN: THE FINAL FIGHT (US Trailer) on VOD 8/20, in Theaters 9/20 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t0fAeQiNMU)

Well, this is going to be confusing...:rolleyes:

USA (http://www.wellgousa.com/theatrical/ip-man-the-final-fight)

Sep 20, 2013
NEW YORK CITY

Cinema Village
22 E 12th St.
New York, NY 10003

LOS ANGELES / SAN DIEGO

Laemmle Noho 7
5240 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601

SAN FRANCISCO / BAY AREA

Four Star Theater
2200 Clement St
San Francisco, CA 94121

CHICAGO

Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave.
Chicago, IL 60613
BUY TICKETS
PORTLAND

Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland, OR 97212

PHOENIX

FilmBar
815 N 2nd St
Phoenix, AZ 85004

DENVER

SIE FilmCenter
2510 E Colfax Ave
Denver, CO 80206

[GeneChing]

I can't. :( But it's available on iTunes already I think.

Here's a teaser on Hulu: Ip Man: The Final Fight Exclusive Clip (http://www.hulu.com/watch/532738)

A lion dance fight. I love lion dance fights. :)

[GeneChing]

You know, I enjoy both Anthony Wong and Eric Tsang as actors. They are both superb character actors and have delivered some amazing non-martial arts films. It's amusing to see them duke it out in this scene as neither is really that renown for their martial arts. I do plan to see this, more for their performances than the martial arts (although the fight scenes don't look too bad so far, all things considered).

IP MAN: THE FINAL FIGHT Clip: Two Masters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D80qcjrzvRI)

[GeneChing]

Posting this here instead of on the GM thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53227), just because of the pic.

Martial arts master Ip Man reigns large in film (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-ip-man-kung-fu20130922,0,6396050.story)
Reel China: Wong Kar Wai's 'The Grandmaster' and Herman Yau's 'The Final Fight' are just the latest to take on near-mythical kung fu expert Ip Man.
By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
September 21, 2013, 9:00 a.m.

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Anthony Wong portrays Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man in "Ip Man: The Final Flight." (Well Go USA Entertainment / September 22, 2013)

HONG KONG — There is a scene near the beginning of Wong Kar Wai's "The Grandmaster" in which the main character, the martial arts expert Ip Man, expounds on the ethos of his practice. "Kung fu: two words. One horizontal, one vertical — if you're wrong, you'll be left lying down. If you're right, you're left standing — and only the ones who stand have the right to talk."

Lately it seems filmmakers can't talk enough about Ip Man. Born in southern China in 1893, he was notable for having taught the iconic Bruce Lee and popularizing the Wing Chun school of kung fu. Though he died in poverty and exile in Hong Kong in 1972, Ip has become an almost mythical figure featuring in multiple films in recent years.

Besides "The Grandmaster," now in theaters, he is the subject of Herman Yau's "Ip Man: The Final Fight" (which opens Sept. 20 in L.A. and is available on VOD) and at least three other major films since 2008 — Yau's "The Legend Is Born: Ip Man," plus Wilson Yip's "Ip Man" and "Ip Man 2." An "Ip Man 3" is in the works as well.

Ip's character is engaging filmmakers and audiences as much for the traditional Chinese values he is seen to represent as for his own biography, which spans many tumultuous years of Chinese history and offers multiple entry points for dramatic storytelling.

"Ip Man is a blank slate," explained Grady Hendrix, a founder of the New York Asian Film Festival. "The movies can make him into whatever they choose to make him. It is just helpful to say here is this avatar of Chinese virtue who also kicks a lot of ass."

Added Roger Garcia, director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival: "He is a partly Confucian-driven person who stands up for his principles and fights the bad guys. Ip Man is a kind of hero. And there are not too many superheroes in China."

Another factor in the flowering of interest in Ip's story? The difficulty of making movies about his famous pupil, Lee. "The holy grail of Hong Kong for a long time is to make a biopic of Bruce Lee," Hendrix said. "But the Lee family controls his image very closely so his Wing Chun teacher is the next best thing."

The flurry of Ip Man films have proven popular in Hong Kong and beyond. Wong's "The Grandmaster," for instance, earned more than $50 million worldwide and is the Hong Kong director's highest-grossing film ever in mainland China. (Ip left the mainland just as the Communist era was starting, so his story presents few problems for mainland censors and yet for audiences feels more contemporary than many imperial dynasty period dramas. Some Ip Man films, including "Grandmaster," have emphasized his resistance to Japanese occupation during World War II.)

For filmmakers, Ip is a malleable lens through which they can channel their visions. In "The Grandmaster," Tony Leung plays Ip with his trademark brooding introspection; this is a man who beats his competitors through self-restraint and wits rather than mere brawn. But Wong, a romantic auteur, uses Ip — and a fictional side story of his unconsummated love for the martial artist Gong Er (played by Zhang Ziyi) — to examine regret and yearning. Both characters battle their opponents in elements and landscapes that mirror their own tortured souls, from torrential sheets of rain to the vast snowy drifts of northern China.

By contrast, Yau — a veteran commercial director — uses Ip as a framing device to explore Hong Kong's colonial history. Ip arrived in the then-British colony in 1949, and "The Final Fight" homes in on how locals chafed against London's rule.

While the movies have opposing styles — "The Grandmaster" is languid, lush and consumed by longing while "The Final Fight" is fast-paced and often funny — they both touch on the struggles of mainland Chinese who settled in Hong Kong after the Japanese invasion and the Communist takeover.

"When I was shooting the movie, I tried to imagine how my father and my mother were living in that era, how they struggled, how they brought up me and my brothers," explained Yau in his hometown, which the British returned to Chinese rule in 1997. "Hong Kong is quite nostalgic now because things are disappearing too fast."

To recapture the Hong Kong of the past, Yau not only built historical sets but also tried to create the aesthetic of an old film. In his movie Ip, to the disapproval of his students, falls for a glamorous singer. They cautiously set up a semblance of a life together, but there are no sex scenes; their affair is platonic and chaste. Yau wanted to mimic the movies made in Hong Kong during the '50s when "there is no way to find a love scene. What I have done is to put the 1950s aura into 'The Final Fight.'"

To prepare to play Ip in "The Grandmaster," Leung spent a year and a half training in Wing Chun (and broke his arm twice while shooting). But beyond his physical prowess, it was Ip's intelligence and moral compass that Leung most wanted to portray. The actor recalled that when he came across a photograph of the real Ip, he saw "a man who doesn't look like a kung fu man. He looks like a scholar, a very refined, graceful person. In his eyes, I can see Ip Man still has dignity."

This notion is corroborated by Sifu Duncan Leung, one of Ip's former students, who trained with the master in 1950s Hong Kong and acted as Leung's martial arts teacher. "In the winter, [Ip Man] wore a very thin beat-up jacket, thin shorts and no shoes," recalled Sifu. "He was a real gentleman. He never complained, he never asked for help, not once."

Yet as filmmakers have built up Ip as a folk figure, most have shied away from the more t***** parts of his life. According to Sifu, Ip dabbled in opium and his second wife was an addict. "The Final Fight" alludes to this (Ip's love interest offers him opium), but the issue is never fully explored.

Instead, it is Wing Chun — a martial art based on short and fast punches — that takes center stage in both "The Grandmaster" and "The Final Fight." Darren Leung, Duncan's son and Tony Leung's day-to-day trainer, describes Wing Chun as "about economy of motion. The maximum result for the minimum effort."

In "The Grandmaster," it is the codes that surround this art, and the gilt-laden walls of the lavish Golden Pavilion brothel where its practitioners gather, that consume its characters.

"The Grandmaster" was a decade in the making and its production was fraught with problems; it is unlikely Wong Kar Wai will be making any more Ip Man movies soon. But for Herman Yau, the lure of Ip's story — and no doubt the profits it provides — continues to tempt.

"I still want to make one or two more Ip Man movies," Yau said. "There are still many more stories and dramas during Ip Man's life which are very interesting to me as a filmmaker. Even though the title is the 'Final Fight,' we still have some final years."

[GeneChing]

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[GeneChing]

It's actually part 2 of franchise 2, but the U.S. DVD bears the same design as franchise 1 in order to sell it as part 3 of said franchise. Despite such marketing shenanigans, it's ok. IM:FF lacks the machismo of Donnie Yen in franchise 1 and the smoldering artistry of the Oscar contender (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1122), but it stands on its own as an enjoyable Kung Fu flick. It's like a postcard from vintage Hong Kong, set on the cluttered rooftops and the back alleys of the walled city. The color schemes have a hand-tinted tone just like the old photos of the period. Even the soundtrack reflects the times. The story is somewhat apologetic, redeeming rumors of Ip Man's autumn years and injecting an underground fight subplot for more fight scenes. The fights aren't as hard hitting as Donnie's work (who can be nowadays?) but they are satisfactory considering that most of the actors aren't known as action stars. It's the actors that shine.

Anthony Wong and Eric Tseng are two of my fav HK character actors. Wong, always lends a certain genuineness to his roles, even in comedic farce. He's akin to Michael Caine, been at it forever taking a wide range of textured supporting roles and the occasional lead (check out Dr. Lamb, which is Wong's precedent to Hannibal Lector). Wong did train traditional Kung Fu for a while, but it's not what he's known for cinematically. I once compared Tseng unfairly to Danny Devito because they are both short and round, but they have both done unique exemplary work (Tseng in Infernal Affairs, inspiration for The Departed, and Devito in Matilda and Always Sunny in Philadelphia). The fight scene Wong vs. Tseng is well done considering that Kung Fu is not a specialty of either actor (although Wong has trained in TCMA). Newcomers Timmy Hung (Sammo's eldest son) and Jordan Chan (who stole the show in Dragon Pearl, a Sino-Aussie production starring Sam O'Neil recapturing his Jurassic days with a Chinese dragon) were both good, especially Jordan. I expected a little more from Gillian Chung.

Like with part 1 of this franchise (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57189), Ip Chun, has a cameo, although in this one, it is fleeting. The film is told from Ip Chun's perspective, which gives this franchise his blessing, kind of like how Dragon got the blessing of Linda Lee. But lineage politics (so pervasive in this style), Bruce Lee references (modestly done here), and apologies aside, this is an amusing Kung Fu flick with plenty of decent fight scenes. No swordfights. Ratchets and axes. A lion dance fight. Ice tong fight. Lots and lots of Wing Chun (http://www.martialartsmart.com/wing-chun-styles.html). :rolleyes:

[GeneChing]

We know this guy...:eek:

January 18, 2022
10:07 PM PST
Last Updated 12 hours ago
China
Kung fu master Sin wants to run Hong Kong as leadership race looms (https://www.reuters.com/world/china/hong-kong-film-producer-says-he-wants-run-become-new-city-leader-2022-01-19/)
By Jessie Pang and Twinnie Siu

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A Chinese national flag (L) and a Hong Kong flag fly outside the Legislative Council, three days before the territory celebrates the 20th anniversary of its handover to Chinese rule, in Hong Kong, China June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip


HONG KONG, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Hong Kong kung fu master and film producer Checkley Sin Kwok Lam said on Wednesday he intended to run in the city's leadership race, a surprise move that comes as incumbent leader Carrie Lam has yet to confirm whether she will run for a second term.

The 65-year-old is the first person to announce their candidacy ahead of the election on March 27. Chief Executive Lam, who has presided over some of Hong Kong's most tumultuous periods in history, is due to end her term in June.

Willing candidates need the backing of a powerful "patriots-only" electoral body formed by 1,500 pro-Beijing people in Hong Kong. It was unclear whether Sin had such support.

In a YouTube video, Sin said his internet supporters convinced him to change his mind on not getting involved in politics.

"Under the new election system, I believe every capable and reliable patriot can join the new chief executive election," Sin said. "I believe that I have the ability to win."

With the election just weeks away, the silence from leader Lam and other heavyweights is unusual. Local media have speculated that potential candidates include Lam, Financial Secretary Paul Chan and former chief of the World Health Organisation, Margaret Chan. Lam has repeatedly declined to comment on whether she will run for a second term.

Sin, who produced the film Ip Man, has been an active promoter of martial arts in the city. He heads the World Wing Chun Union, which focuses on the traditional southern Chinese kung fu style which was popularised in Hong Kong by Ip Man and Bruce Lee.

Shares of National Arts Group , from which Sin resigned as chairman last July, soared more than 50% on Wednesday in their highest percentage gain since 2006. The company's market value is around HK$102 million ($13 million).

Hong Kong-born Sin has his own YouTube channel with 155,000 subscribers and posts online every few days on topics ranging from politics to the Beijing Olympics. In 2021, one of his shows focused on what he called 'Western hypocrisy' on Hong Kong.

He first started his online commentary in October 2019 at the height of Hong Kong's anti-government protests where he strongly sided with the government and the police force.

The nomination period runs from Feb 15- March 2 and candidates must get nominations from at least 188 of the 1,500 people in the election committee, according to a document from city's legislature.

($1 = 7.7917 Hong Kong dollars)

Reporting by Jessie Pang and Twinnie Siu; Writing by Farah Master; Editing by Marius Zaharia and Michael Perry

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