Chinese action star Donnie Yen and director Wilson Yip breathed prodigious new life into the martial-arts genre with their quasi-biographical 2008 film “Ip Man,” a huge hit on multiple continents. A ...

HONG KONG — There is a scene near the beginning of Wong Kar Wai’s “The Grandmaster” in which the main character, the martial arts expert Ip Man, expounds on the ethos of his practice. “Kung fu: two ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Ip Man movies are a quadrilogy of martial arts movies from Hong Kong director Wilson Yip starring Donnie Yen ...

The figure of Ip Man, also known as Yip Man, is legendary in Asian martial-arts circles. He’s the teacher in early 20th century China who led a colorful, combative life, helped popularize the study of ...

Ip Man reluctantly begins a series of challenges from rival kung fu schools and is soon drawn into the dark and dangerous world of the Triads.