Ip Man 4: The Finale 4K UHD [Blu-ray]

This my favorite movies the whole collection

As a Wing Chun, Pa Kua, Tai Chi Ch'uan (2 styles ) Shirfu (teacher of 44 years ) I grew up in the era that this film depicts. I learned Kung fu for a period of time with Donnie Yen's mother Bow Sim Mark in Tai Tung Village in Boston, and often saw Little Donnie he was about 6-10 years old. The time was 2 years after Ip man had died, Wing Chun was undiscovered, Bruce Lee was just becoming famous. I was 18 years old. Let me tell you, for you reviewers who complain of the racist over tones of this film. It is not only true to form of those times it was worse! It went both ways. The caucasian racism was utterly present in commerce and police. What was equally hard was the truth that if you wanted to lean Kung Fu and you were white, it was intensely difficult. Even if you did find a Shirfu you were taught basics only and the higher forms were withheld. The ONLY way to learn was to beg to be taught and be utterly dedicated and then after 10 years your teacher MIGHT trust you but to overcome this bias was very hard. Even going into Chinese Shops/ restaurants you felt the animosity to your presence. So many times my food was tossed down like I was unwelcome by the Chinese waiter.My Teacher Leung Kai Chi and Bow Sim Mark ( Donnie Yens Mother) were one of the FEW who taught non asians.Both demanded intense dedication if you wanted to get past the first step on the tall ladder of Kung Fu.It is absolutely true Bruce Lee fought for and almost died for the right to teach Non asians, so did Chen Man Ching in New York.The Benevolent society of those times DID threaten and shut down teachers who taught openly.So to those who say the film is racist or propaganda or too heavy in it's tones have NO CLUE.It was real and hard and right out in your face Racism. Heck Bruce Lee wrote the pilot for "Kung Fu" TV series and they took the role from him and gave it to a white actor who was clueless about kung fu and they did it because Bruce was to "asian". The reason for the mask of Kato in Green Hornet movie was to hide Bruce Lee was asian! He only got recognition when we went back to Hong Kong and because a movie sensation there before the American movie industry tolerated him.So on to the Movie, As a Wing Chun teacher (44 years practicing ) I recognize these movies are fictitious in historical fact. They stretch many truths and add a lot to the life of Ip Man.However I adore these movies and this is why. First, there are so many historical truths peppered in the movie that are scintillating and real. The Art of Wing Chun is shown so realistically, well and so expressively I am thrilled in each one. I lived these moves and have spend my life with the themes they present. Donnie is legendary in his acquisition of the Art. While there are creative stretches to make the movie work the back round utterly touches on truth. The forms, the wooden dummy, the family dynamics, the fighting theory, the fact that Ip man filmed when he had cancer , the weapon use are all really good. These movies are utterly keepers for any Wing Chun practitioner. Secondly, I thought they captured Bruce Lees flavor well and his own struggle and the events of Karate Expo were real. The Bias against Kung Fu by Karate in USA real! I know because I fought in tournaments against Karate stylists using Wing Chun and often the judges awarded points to the karateka when the technique was miles from my face and failed to give me points when my punch was inches from theirs. No Wing Chun low kicks were allowed! The movie is wonderful but you need to look at the truths not the surface of plot and not the historical accuracy but behind the obvious. Even China town and the camp art, cars, dress and styles were fantastic.The fights are great , the Wing Chun free and flowing and the Ip family tradition heart felt. Thank you for this Movie.

Great film just wished it came with the slips careful before ordering if you want it to come with the slip some don’t as they DONT LET YOU KNOW IF IT DOES

Good movie we watched the whole series & had a difficult finding an English version

This 4th installment is my favorite of the Ip Man sequels. It is a fitting conclusion to the most popular kung fu movie franchise since the Once Upon a Time in China series, which featured Jet Li as Wong Fei-Hung, back in the 1990s. Of course, both movie franchises are fictitious, and endow the leading characters (who were, in fact, real-life men and martial arts masters) with superhuman fighting abilities.One interesting theme in the Ip Man movies is that only Ip Man and his Wing Chun style are portrayed as effective against the non-Chinese fighters; all the masters of the other Chinese fighting styles are beaten by the foreigners (Japanese, British, American). So if this franchise was intended to make Chinese fighting styles appear superior, well, it’s failed at that. The Ip Man series is about a fictitious vision of Ip Man’s life, and his martial art, and not about the superiority or inferiority of any country or culture. The real Ip Man never visited America, and probably never even met an American in his entire life, with the exception of his student Bruce Lee (who was born in San Francisco, but grew up in Hong Kong). By all accounts, the real Ip Man was also far more conservative than his movie character.I find it interesting that a number of reviewers found the movie offensive and “racist against white people.” I’m not sure they were watching the same movie I was. First off, not every ‘white American‘ character who appears in this film is portrayed as bad or racist, but the featured ones were, because that’s a big part of what drives the story. In the first Ip Man movie, every Japanese character was portrayed as bad or evil, but none of the people complaining now were complaining then. I wasn’t offended by the first Ip Man movie at all (or any of the hundreds of other Chinese kung fu films in which Japanese are the villains), and my ancestry is Japanese. The fact is, anti-Chinese (and anti-Asian in general) racism existed back then, and it still exists today. That is what the Chinese characters in Ip Man 4 were dealing with, and why the other Chinese masters were intolerant/racist themselves. Having grown up here in the 1960s and 70s, I can attest to having experienced racism, though nowhere to the degree as in the movie. But others in other places may well have. Such racism was much more open and considered more acceptable back then than it is today. I’m guessing that most of the complainers were probably born at least 20 years after the 1960s and have never experienced any such ugliness themselves, to be so easily triggered by this movie.Donnie Yen’s portrayal of Ip Man has become iconic, and it is amazing that it took until the first Ip Man movie in 2008 for him to finally achieve superstardom, considering his first movie appearance and starring role came in 1984’s Drunken Tai Chi. Donnie has stated that this will be his last kung fu movie, and that it’s time to move on to other things. Whatever he does, Donnie Yen will go down as one of the all-time greats in action movies.

I thought I already had this movie my collection, but it was only digital download but for great price I’ve been add it to my Bluey collection. Thanks a lot.

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