Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Ip Man movies are a quadrilogy of martial arts movies from Hong Kong director Wilson Yip starring Donnie Yen ...

Action. Directed by Wilson Ip. Starring Donnie Yen. (R. 108 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) If there is one cardinal rule of action movies, it's this: Any sneering bad guy who informs the hero that he ...

A scene from YOUNG IP MAN: CRISIS TIME. Courtesy of WellGoUSA I’ve enjoyed many of the films based on Ip Man, the eponymous actual Chinese martial arts hero of the last century – especially the batch ...

Film scholars have lamented a decline in both the entertainment value and political economy of Hong Kong martial-arts movies since Britain relinquished its colonial rule to China in 1997. But fans of ...

There have been all kinds of Ip Man movies. “The Grandmaster,” which played in Seattle in 2013, has exquisitely lovely visuals. “Ip Man 3” has Mike Tyson. As “Ip Man 3’s” ubervillain, Iron Mike ...

Semi-fictional biopics about Ip Man, Bruce Lee's teacher in the art of "Wing Chun" boxing, have become the most lucrative franchise among Hong Kong action films of recent years. By Maggie Lee, The ...

Chinese action star Donnie Yen and director Wilson Yip breathed prodigious new life into the martial-arts genre with their quasi-biographical 2008 film “Ip Man,” a huge hit on multiple continents. A ...

Mike Tyson drops in as a baddie in Donnie Yen's third portrait of the legendary martial-arts grandmaster who counted Bruce Lee among his disciples. By Clarence Tsui More than five years after their ...

Ip Man chronicles the life and exploits of Ip Man (or “Yip Man”), a real life martial arts who was a legendary teacher of the Chinese martial arts form known as Wing Chun. He mentored many world ...

I’m not qualified to judge whether the Hong Kong action flick “Ip Man” belongs among the top martial-arts films ever made, an opinion that’s been gaining credence as the movie bounced around the world ...