Tags: Donnie Yen | Hiroyuki Ikeuchi | Lam Ka-tung | Lynn Hung | Simon Yam | Wilson Yip

This is a semi-biographical account concentrating on the childhood and teenage years of IP Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial arts Wing Chun.

From this period of his life you could find out how IP finally turned into such a famed icon of this amazing martial art style.

Indeed this folk hero was under huge influences from his two kung fu masters Chan Wah-shun and Leung Pik way back when he was just a young grasshopper.

Therefore their master-disciple relationships take up quite a significant portion of the plot in this movie. Another person that we shouldn’t miss out when we talk about IP Man is his step-brother IP Tin-chi, who IP Man discovers is an undercover assassin sent by the Japanese army.

To Checkley Sin’s (producer of IP Man 1 & 2) credit, this prequel showcases some rarely seen Wing Chun techniques, e.g. leg work and wrestling. If you are hungry for more vivid and vigorous actions, the must-see scenes are the several different combat match ups between real-life professionals competing in Wing Chun with different kinds of martial arts, such as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, Boxing... really amazing stuff!

The trailer in Chinese: