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Donnie Yen as the Wing Chun master during the Japanese occupation; ten black belts at once.

Ip Man opens a school in 1949 Hong Kong and ends up in a ring against a British boxer.

A wuxia of exiled swordsmen in a desert, cut and recut for years; Christopher Doyle's desert light.

Ip Man between the wars, in the rain; Wong's martial-arts epic.

A developer moves on the school and Mike Tyson turns up as his boss; the fight in the lift is the set piece.

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Ride peak trams, browse neon markets, and hike island trails of Hong Kong

Ryo in Hong Kong and Kowloon, still asking strangers about sailors, and an ending left hanging for eighteen years.