The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010) on Netflix
NR20101h 40mActionBiographyDramaHistorySport
As a boy in Foshan, Ip Man learns Wing Chun from Chan Wah-shun. In Hong Kong, he answers a Westerner's insult with a fight and meets the master Leung Bik.
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Plot summary
Chan Wah-shun trains the young Ip Man in Wing Chun in Foshan, where Ip Tin-chi is raised as Ip's brother and Lee Mei-wai is their friend. When Chan dies of illness, Ip goes on learning from the senior student Ng Chung-sok, then leaves for Hong Kong to study. After a field hockey match there, a Westerner hurls racial insults at Ip and his schoolmates; Ip challenges the man, beats him, and becomes known across the city. Getting medicine for the Westerner, whom he now counts a friend, he meets Leung Bik, whose Wing Chun departs from the orthodox style he learned at home. In Foshan, Ip Tin-chi has become a prominent businessman, and Japanese businessmen arrive in Hong Kong.
Cast
- Rose Chanas Li Mei Wai
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- After the Yuen and Yiu families objected to how Yuen Kay Shan was portrayed in the film, producer Si Kwok Lam and co-producer Ip Chun apologized six times and "served tea" to his grandson, Yuen Jo Tong, for misrepresenting and disrespecting him.
