- Source: Ip Man: Kung Fu Master
Ip Man: Kung Fu Master (Chinese: 叶问宗师) is a 2019 Chinese martial arts film co-written and directed by Li Liming and starring Dennis To as Ip Man. It is To's third portrayal of the Hong Kong martial artist, after The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010) and Kung Fu League (2018). The film depicts Ip Man's stint as a police officer in Guangzhou before the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949. The film did not get a theatrical release in China, but instead it was released digitally via streaming on Youku.
Cast
Dennis To as Ip Man
Yuan Li Ruoxin as Qing Chuan
Tong Xiaohu as Director Yuan
Yue Dongfeng as Qiao Wu
Chang Qinyuan as Cheung Wing-sing
Zhao Xiaoguang as Sasaki-Zuo
Ren Yu as Tokugawa
Li Rizhu as Ribby
Michael Wong as San Ye
Release
Ip Man was released in China digitally exclusively on Youku on 23 December 2019. The film was given a limited release in the United States on 11 December 2020.
The film will be available On Demand via Apple TV, Prime Video, Google Play, FandangoNOW, DirecTV, and more on March 9 throughout the United States.
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregated score of 36% based on 11 critic reviews.
Leslie Felperin of The Guardian rated it two out of five stars and wrote "the film takes itself a bit too seriously and reshuffles the deck of plot tropes instead of inventing its own ideas..."
Film Hound Magazine criticized Li's poor storytelling by stating "...perhaps not a great structural storyteller or indeed a fluid one, as evidenced by the amount of scenes that end on a fade to black..." overall giving the film three out of five stars.
References
External links
Ip Man: Kung Fu Master at IMDb
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- Ip Man
- Kungfu
- Ip Man (film)
- Wing Chun
- Huo Yuanjia
- Zui Quan
- Tony Jaa
- Leung Siu-lung
- Yuen Kay-shan
- Filmografi Donnie Yen
- Ip Man: Kung Fu Master
- Ip Man
- Ip Man 2
- Ip Man (film)
- Ip Man 3
- Ip Man 4: The Finale
- The Axe Gang
- Kung fu (term)
- Cheung Wing-sing
- William Cheung
