WING CHUN FILM SERIES: RAPID FIRE

A real GEM this one though I doubt not to everyone's taste.

Starring the son of the legend who became a legend in his own right in the film The Crow.

I do like this and it stars one of my favourite actors, Powers Boothe from Southern Comfort fame and has a good story, for me anyway, and some pretty nifty action shots.

Also that Chinese chap who appears in almost anything martial arts related and i have loved seeing him over the years from Big Trouble in Little China with Kurt Russell and Kim Catrall to Lethal Weapon with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover and later Joe Pesci.

Someone states in the film that the kid does "Wing Chun and Muay Thai" looks alot like Jeet Kune Do then?! LOL!!

Loved the scene near the beginning when a guy comes running at him with a gun and he slides under a table and kicks the edge of the table top and it flips up and hits the guy in the face!!

Fight with the two bent cops, great stuff!

Or when he grabs his crotch and says something in Chinese to Powers Boothe and he askes the Chinese guy on his team what he says and he replies "he says he thinks he loves you!"

Only ever seen this on DVD and that is what format this copy is on. A rare gem it really is.

Only bad side is that Brandon, or Jake Lo, has an incessant determination to resist doing the right thing gets a bit much and you feel ike slapping him yourself (laughs) to wake him up.

WING CHUN FILM SERIES: THE PRODIGAL SON

The Prodigal Son recently returned?!

Lol, but this is the earlier version and I know not if there is a difference in picture quality between this one and the new one, like there are in Bruce Lee's movies apart from Enter The Dragon.

Also recently released, or was supposed to be but yet to see it, is Warriors Two, that is Warrriors Two as in TWO WARRRIORS not Warriors 2 the second instalment!

This is a great film and I was really luck to come across it in that local store that shall not be named! Oddly many copies on-line were selling for upwards of £30 and even over £50?! But they had it up for £10 and when I walked to the counter the guy that dealt with me knew the film?! That CEX store really does have some rather bizarre pricing, it really does.

Yuen Biao plays Leung Jan the big cheese in China for being very adept with Wing Chun before Ip Man came along and shortly after Wing Chun herself. Also starring a very young Sammo Hung who went on to become so very well known and an impressive man by any standard. The boy can move!

In a twist he was a Doctor and Leung Jan appears in Warriors Two as an older gentleman and teaches the two that much later would teach Ip Man, or one of them does hmm early in the morning and cannot quite think. Cover that in the Warrior Two post.

Like many early martial arts movies it is mixed with humour too in places and remains comical. An very old film today but still a favourite of mine and when I first watched it I was worried I would hate it or find it old and boring. A week later and followed by several viewings I can happily say that did not turn out to be the case!

WING CHUN IN FILMS: LEGEND OF THE TWIN DRAGONS

Lets go even more in-obscure with this title that was very hard to find.

I later discover, and it did kind of feel like it upon watching, that this is as I believe it to be the PILOT for the Wing Chun series screened in Hong Kong?!

Amazing how here in the UK we are fed utter drivel on TV to the point I do not watch it but bloody series on all these characters and the UK full of Wing Chun Schools and we do not even get a sniff at them.

Crazier still is that you cannot buy them even on DVD?!?!

God this country SUCKS BIG TIME it really does but you would have to see my blog on UK Corruption to learn more about that?! LMAO!

Great story and there is known martial artists in this and of course the guy on the top left of the cover is Yuen Biao the great man who played the other great man of Leung Jan is here play ... ummm... LEUNG JAN!!

Oh and you have Nicholas Tse playing none other than Leung Bik, Leung Jan's son, who later in life taught Ip Man a few new tricks.

WOOHOO!!

9 out of 10 for me this one. Not seen the series despite owning this TWO YEARS now! LOL.

WING CHUN IN FILMS: KUNG FU WING CHUN

OK now this one is a REAL GEM!!

Remake of sorts of the Michelle Yeoh starring Wing Chun.

This is great, the lead actress is Jing Bai, if I remember that correctly, and i found her to be brilliant. A little comedic at times and good with it, like all the classics like Prodigal Son for one, and I swooned myself when she was on-screen.

Was let down at the very end by not getting its dates and ages quite right, a certain meeting is not quite possible if I am not mistaken. A young Ip Man meeting Wing Chun would have more likley been Leung Jan and I doubted immediately that Ip Man could have even been born...

...but maybe I am wrong on that.

Also of interest is that I HAD TO ORDER from OVERSEAS and when it arrived I thought I had ordered a BLU-RAY copy and was only a DVD.

Was either www.cdwow.com,or co.uk, or another called Asia something or other, lol, and will edit this when I recall the name!

EDIT: www.yesasia.com!! LMAO!!

9.5 out of 10 for me this one.

WING CHUN IN FILMS: IP MAN 2

Almost as classic as the first but felt missing a fight scene and let down a little my the flying about on tables but still a great movie for me and would not be without it.

Ip Man arriving in Hong Kong and trying to set up the Wing Chun School he was reluctant to do in the first film.

Great battle with the obnoxious British boxer played pretty well by that actor as even I wanted to fight him in defence of the Chinese?! LMAO!

I was annoyed that Americans get such better releases of these than we do in the UK!

WING CHUN IN FILMS: IP MAN

IP MAN - DONNIE YEN WILSON YIP

Right we will get the obvious out of the way... EDITED THIS AS I DID NOT SAY MUCH?!?!

Ip Man with Donnie Yen and only anyone who is dead are not familiar with this classic!

Brilliant and should have been longer, well one more fight scene, lol.

The best fight scene in years with the ten Karate, Japanese soldier, guys!

9.9 Out of ten for me!

I include pictures of covers to identify them all in your searches and especially so the more in-obscure titles!

I LOVE this movie and reading about the fact that there will now be a third one with Donnie Yen and I for one am over the moon!!! KUDOS! What with that and Wong Kar Wai's The GRANDMASTER and I am in Wing Chun heaven, or at least on my way. With another favourite Chinese actor in a film playing Bruce Lee's Sifu in Anthony Wong and it does not get much better than this.

I do not care about whether or not is it historically accurate and think people should NOT come out with statements like this as it is nigh on impossible to get ANYTHING historically accurate and the further back in time you go then obviously the harder this gets?!

Julias Caeser, Roman Empire, Spartacus, Alexander, Troy, Zulu Dawn (err I think, the Michael Caine one), Battle of Britain and I could do this all night long!

So do we therefore stop making them?!

It is Ip Man performing Wing Chun so he hit ...SOMEONE?! Hahaha!

There was an incident with a Policeman and yes it differs from that portrayed in the film and what I read was that a Policeman was threatening a girl in the street while brandishing his gun and is similar fashion Ip Man relieved him of it before speeding off quick sharp?!

I only wish now that they would do some up to date films on Leung Jan?! The man who taught Ip Man's Sifu's and Leung Bik's father who was a Doctor in Foshan. This is the character portrayed by Yuen Biao in The Prodigal Son.

I loved the cotton mill scene in this where he reluctantly gives in and they are all in the side alley performing the Sil Nim Tao and Chum Kiu, Little Idea and Seeking the Bridge respectively.

But coming up with a film that shows the genuine Wing Chun style has been so very difficult in the past that they way they have now managed to do this warms the cockles of my heart! After what SEEMS to have happened with The Grandmaster and teaching its star, Tony Leung, how to be convincing at Wing Chun I now have renewed hope of a Leung Jan movie, OR THREE?!

For those a;ready saying it become boring and done to death I do not get you...well don't watch it then and GET LOST!!

KEEP THEM COMING?!

LMAO!

WING CHUN IN FILMS SERIES

Right going to help out a few people that want to know what films feature Wing Chun in them!!

Now I now from my own experiences that this was daunting and damned difficult and very frustrating for me to do, I often had to order from overseas, and I will tell you where from too, as well as thinking I ordered a BLU-RAY version only to have a DVD arrive, top quality too but was expensive.

So I hope to help out a fair few with this little lot?!

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