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Ip Man
It was a dark time for Hong Kong martial arts films.
Jin shan zhao biography of mahatma
Thai actioners were saturating the market and domestic stars like Jackie Chan and Jet Li had long been written off as relics of a time when using wires for kung fu was inconceivable. The year was 2008 and director Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen, the charisma-deficient Old Stone Face of Wing Chun fighting, had collaborated on Ip Man, the first of what is so far a three-film series about jingoism, self-reliance and ritualized violence.
The film won a dozen awards, including the Golden Horse Award (the Chinese equivalent of the Oscars) for best action choreography. While Ip Man carries on in the tradition of contextless historical fight filmslike the wildly popular Once Upon a Time in China moviesit remains an inexplicable, contextless bit of kung fu historicosploitationalbeit a very satisfying one.
Because of popular demand, it now screens in New York uncut, undubbed and in its full Hong Kong version at Cinema Village.