Ip Man: The Final Fight
New York Asian Film Festival 2013
June 28 - July 11, 2013
North American Premiere! Director Herman Yau and screenwriter Erica Li in person for Q&A!
A slyly subversive send-up of current craze for Ip Man movies, Herman Yau’s action flick is also a myth-busting celebration of Hong Kong’s working class riots and strikes of the 1960s.
North American Premiere! Director Herman Yau and screenwriter Erica Li in person for Q&A!
Director Herman Yau teams up with his favorite actor, Anthony Wong (Untold Story, Ebola Syndrome), to deliver a slyly subversive send-up of the current craze for Ip Man movies. Packed with some of Hong Kong’s best stars of the 80s and 90s, including Eric Tsang, Ken Lo (Drunken Master), and Xiong Xin-xin (The Blade, Once Upon a Time in China 3), this Ip Man movie is not just an action flick but a love letter to Hong Kong’s volatile history of political protest.
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