

When Ip goes to collect his son from school, he witnesses Ma and his men beating the school principal after he refuses to sell. Frank orders Ma to acquire the land occupied by the school where Ching and Fong study. Tin-chi participates in underground fights organized by Ma King-sang, a local triad leader who works for Frank, an American property developer and highly proficient boxer. Although Tin-chi interacts cordially with Ip, he secretly envies and seeks to surpass him. When asked who his mentor is, Fong says it is his father, Cheung Tin-chi, who shows up to collect his son shortly after. At Ip's house, Fong displays rudimentary but impressive Wing Chun skills. As an apology, the Ips invite Fong to their home for dinner. After Lee demonstrates his speed, Ip neither accepts nor rejects him, but insinuates for him to leave by opening the door.Īfter Ip Ching gets into a fight with his schoolmate Cheung Fong, their teacher, Miss Wong, asks the parents to come to the school, though only the Ips arrive. Bruce Lee visits Ip and asks to become one of his students. His elder son, Ip Chun, has returned to Foshan to study, leaving Ip with his younger son, Ip Ching, and his wife, Cheung Wing-sing, in Hong Kong. In 1959, Ip Man settles into his low-profile life in Hong Kong. ( November 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. It also won Best Action Choreography, Best Director and Best Picture at the 2016 Shanghai International Film Festival. The film received positive reviews and eight Hong Kong Film Award nominations, including Best Film and Best Director, and won in the Best Editing category. It was released in the United States on 22 January 2016, and was released in mainland China on 4 March 2016. It opened in Taiwan on 31 December 2015, New Zealand and United Kingdom on 15 January 2016 and one week later in Australia. The premiere of the film was released in Hong Kong on 16 December 2015, and officially released in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia on 24 December 2015. Principal photography commenced in March 2015 and ended in June of that year. Ip Man's pupil Bruce Lee is portrayed by Danny Chan and Ip Man's fellow Wing Chun expert and rival Cheung Tin-chi (張天志), also known as Sum Nung, is portrayed by Zhang Jin.
IP MAN 3 CAST SERIES
It is the third in the Ip Man film series based on the life of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man and features Donnie Yen reprising the title role. UPDATE: New posters for the film with the new release date are rolling out in China.Ip Man 3 is a 2015 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film directed by Wilson Yip, produced by Raymond Wong and written by Edmond Wong with action choreography by Yuen Woo-ping. They’re making millions per picture instead of tens of thousands, which is a huge difference. And they’re seeing great results at the box office here. I’ve noticed that, lately, distributors of Chinese films have been releasing them within weeks of their original release dates in Asia instead of years.

“Ip Man 3” will be released in a limited run in the U.S. With a budget of $36M, not a modest sum in Chinese terms, it’ll still have to do well in China for the fourth film to happen. Plus, shortly after “Ip Man 3’s” excellent performance in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, he and the producer are already talking about “Ip Man 4.” So the third entry being his last kung fu outing is more of a marketing ploy than anything else. Look, Yen just finished “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” in which he confirmed that he definitely uses his particular set of skills to kick lots of futuristic asses.

As with Jet Li regarding “Fearless,” he’s probably saying that it’ll be his last film about a martial arts figure, and not the last film where he kicks ass. Yen has been promoting “Ip Man 3” as his last martial arts film, but not last action film. Releasing the film two months later, the only concern for the studio is “Will the rampant video piracy in China hurt its box office?” We’ll see. For reasons unexplained, Wilson Yip’s “Ip Man 3,” the third installment of the popular martial arts franchise starring Donnie Yen, was pulled from its original December 24th release date in China.Īfter breaking records in Hong Kong and Malaysia and packing in audiences across neighboring countries on that initial date, the film will finally arrived in China on March 4th.
