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THE GRANDMASTER (一代宗師)
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Completed - CHINESE - Drama - 130 minutes

Year of production : 2013

Director(s) : Kar Wai WONG
Writer(s) : Jing zhi ZOU, Hao feng XU, Kar wai WONG
Cast : Tony Chiu Wai LEUNG, Ziyi ZHANG, Chen CHANG, Hye Kyo SONG, Ben Shan ZHAO, Shen Yang XIAO

Producer(s) : Kar wai WONG, Jacky yee wah PANG

Synopsis

It begins as the story of Ip Man (Tony Leung), the legendary teacher of Bruce Lee and a master of the Wing Chun school of kungfu. It becomes the portrait of a bygone era and a lost world.
Ip Man was born in Foshan, in the south of China, to a wealthy family. His wife Zhang Yongcheng (Song Hye Kyo) is the descendant of Manchu nobility. Pursuing a single-minded passion for Wing Chun, Ip Man is often seen at the Gold Pavilion, an elegant brothel that serves as a meeting place for Foshan’s kungfu masters and whose women possess a few martial arts secrets of their own.
In 1936, China is experiencing political turbulence and the threat of division. The Japanese have invaded the northeastern provinces collectively known as Manchuria. Grandmaster Gong Baosen (Wang Qingxiang), whose home is in Japanese-occupied Manchura, and who is the leader of the martial arts world of Northern China, arrives in Foshan. He had been to Foshan previously to initiate exchanges between the martial artists of the North and those of the South but this time he has come at the invitation of the Southern masters to hold a ceremony at the Gold Pavilion to celebrate his impending retirement.
An integral part of the ceremony involves a challenge and display of martial arts skills with a younger man. During a similar ceremony held at home in the Northeast, Gong’s disciple and successor Ma San (Zhang Jin), a Xingyi master, performed this role. Master Gong’s daughter Gong Er (Ziyi Zhang), who is the sole inheritor of her father’s lethal Bagua-style ’64 Hands’ technique, also arrives in Foshan to witness her father step down. It is here where she encounters Ip Man. Who is qualified to take up the Old Master’s challenge? Challenge leads to challenge, and masters contest masters.
Meanwhile, the ongoing Japanese occupation of the Northeast sets the stage for a betrayal that will shake Master Gong’s world. It will also cause Gong Er to make a decision that will change the course of her life.

Production

Country(ies) : HONG KONG (CHINA)

ARGENTINA IMPACTO CINE Y
AUSTRIA Jun 21, 2013 THIMFILM GMBH
BELGIUM Apr 17, 2013 CINÉART BELGIUM
FINLAND CINEMA MONDO
FRANCE BACKUP MEDIA GR
GERMANY Jun 27, 2013 WILD BUNCH GERM
GREECE SEVEN FILMS
ITALY Sep 19, 2013 BIM DISTRIBUZIO
JAPAN GAGA CORPORATIO
KOREA (Sou CJ CGV CO., LTD
LEBANON TELEVIEW
NETHERLAND May 09, 2013 CINÉART NETHERL
ROMANIA INDEPENDENTA FI
RUSSIA CARMEN FILM GRO
RUSSIA CARMEN FILM GRO
RUSSIA CARAVELLA DDC /
SERBIA SOUL FOOD FILMS
SOUTH AFRI VIDEOVISION ENT
SPAIN Jan 10, 2014 GOLEM DISTRIBUC
SWEDEN Sep 13, 2013 TRIART FILM
SWITZERLAN FILMCOOPI ZURIC
UKRAINE UMS FILM
USA PALMERA INTERNA

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