![]() ![]() (The legend has been disputed and is playfully riffed on in the 1994 movie “Wing Chun,” featuring Michelle Yeoh and a high-flying tray of trembling tofu.) Generations later Ip Man, now the keeper of the Wing Chun flame, seeks to popularize the system. ![]() Though a boy named Bruce stops by briefly, no women enter the school, a shame given that this style of kung fu has been traced through the centuries to when a young female tofu seller, Wing Chun, learned how to fight from a Buddhist nun, Ng Mui, and then passed her knowledge on. There, with his wife and son, Ip Man sets up his humble home and labors to open a martial arts academy, a place where true believers can perfect the ancient physical art of Wing Chun. The dynamo at the center of “Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster” doesn’t leap over buildings in a single bound, but he comes entertainingly close to superhero status.īased on the life of Bruce Lee’s martial arts teacher, Ip Man - played with a quick smile and flying fists by Donnie Yen - this sequel to “Ip Man” picks up after the title character has fled his mainland Chinese home for Hong Kong (a flight repeated in helpful flashback). ![]()
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