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Continuing from where the first film ended, Wing Chun master Ip Man and his family move to Hong Kong in the early 1950s after their escape from Foshan. There, Ip desires to open a school to propagate his art, as well as to make his living, but he has difficulty attracting students due to his lack of reputation in the city. One day, a young man named Wong Leung appears and promptly challenges Ip to a fight, but is easily defeated. Wong leaves humiliated, only to return with some friends to gang up on him. Ip beats them as well. Stunned and impressed by his skills, Wong and his friends become Ip's first students, bringing more disciples to help the school thrive.

IMDB Rating: 7.5/10

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Wong is later caught posting promotional posters for the school by some Hung Gar students. One of them challenges Wong to a fight and loses, but his friends take Wong hostage in revenge and demand a ransom from Ip. Ip goes to the local wet market as directed, but the meeting ends in a confrontation with a growing mob of Hung Ga students. Ip and Wong fight their way outside to meet Jin Shanzhao — the martial artist and former bandit in the first film — who comes to their rescue with his own gang. The students' master, Hung Chun-nam, arrives to break up the fight. Ip introduces himself, and Hung informs him that before setting up a school, he needs to attend a special fighting ceremony to test his skill. Ip, Wong and Jin are subsequently arrested by Officer Fatso for disturbing the peace but are later released on bail. Hung and Fatso are then shown to be acting as reluctant collectors for the martial arts schools (including Hung's) as part of a protection racket headed by Superintendent Wallace, a corrupt officer in the Hong Kong police.

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Ip attends the ceremony and defeats his first challengers, and then strikes a draw with the last challenger, Hung. Ip is allowed to keep running his school on the condition that he pay the monthly protection fees, but he declines. Hung thus has his students loiter in front of the Wing Chun school and harass anyone interested, causing a street brawl between them and Ip's disciples. Ip is thus forced to close up and move the school nearer to home. Ip soon confronts Hung, who blames him since he wouldn't pay the protection fees, with Ip telling Hung that he chose to work with the Westerners. Hung insists that they finish their fight, but during this last encounter, Ip saves Hung's son from getting accidentally hit by one of the punches, earning his respect from Hung. Ip leaves, and the next day, Hung invites him to a British boxing match he had helped to set up, quietly coming to terms with him.

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Ip Man 2 is a 2010 Chinese/Hong Kong biographical martial arts film loosely based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun. A sequel to the 2008 film Ip Man, the film was directed by Wilson Yip, and stars Donnie Yen, who reprises the leading role. Continuing after the events of the earlier film, the sequel centers on Ip's movements in Hong Kong, which is under British colonial rule. He attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun, but faces rivalry from other practitioners, including the local master of Hung Ga martial arts.

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..:: Italian synopsis ::..
Sembra di tornare ai tempi belli del cinema di Hong Kong dei ’70 e ’80, grezzo al limite dell’ignoranza ma dalla creatività inesauribile, quello che, con inequivocabile razzismo, talora metteva in scena gli inglesi (o gli occidentali in genere) come trogloditi dall’ignoranza ferina, di solito apostrofandoli come “diavoli”. Immaginare qualcosa di simile mescolato a citazioni da nientemeno che Rocky IV non può che produrre risultati dal gusto ai limiti del trash, ma è anche di questa sana grevità che si nutre un progetto come quello della saga di Ip Man – maestro di Bruce Lee e reinventore dello stile di arti marziali Wing Chun – che giunge al secondo capitolo in un tripudio di duelli, risse ed esibizioni di abilità nelle arti marziali. E se i match della seconda metà del film tra il pugile inglese e i sifu di kung fu vanno visti nell’ottica succitata, la prima metà, incentrata sulla faticosa diffusione da parte di Ip Man del Wing Chun e dai duelli tra lui e gli altri maestri, appartiene allo stato dell’arte del genere.

Extra:

• The Making of Ip Man
• Deleted Scenes
• U.S. and Original Hong Kong Trailers
• Trailers for White Wall and 9th Company
• Interviews with Director & Cast
• Shooting Diary
• Behind the Sets

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