Chinese cinema tonight with Ip Man (2008), being the true (in Chinese Communist Party terms) story of the eponymous kung fu master's early years, including during the Japanese occupation of China (or parts thereof) from 1937 onwards, when he actively resisted the Japanese at a great deal of risk to himself and his family. Years later, in Hong Kong, he was master to Bruce Lee.
There are a couple more films after this one that tell the rest of his story. The first has him challenging corrupt colonialists in Hong Kong (to be fair, the Hong Kong Police were notoriously corrupt), while the second features Mike Tyson as a (corrupt, naturally) property developer
So, CPoC propaganda, but nonetheless a very good film; I hope they keep up the standard in the next two, should I get around to watching them
(There's also one called "Ip Man: The Final Fight" but it came out the same year as Ip Man 3, has a different cast, and sounds from its description like some cheap Western knockoff.)
I was rather amused by the captions at the end about what happened after he and his family escaped from the Japanese, saying that the Japanese "surrendered in 1945, finally defeated by the Chinese people" without a mention of the USA or any atomic bombs
And the end credits had a list of names of "Tealadies" which is excellent and much better than the American way of wasting such valuable screen time on accountants
After that, S1E1 of the French detective (or "flic") drama Spiral, as I've never seen it. Good stuff, though not in HD; but engaging enough that one doesn't notice the shonky picture too much
Goodnight all
There are a couple more films after this one that tell the rest of his story. The first has him challenging corrupt colonialists in Hong Kong (to be fair, the Hong Kong Police were notoriously corrupt), while the second features Mike Tyson as a (corrupt, naturally) property developer
So, CPoC propaganda, but nonetheless a very good film; I hope they keep up the standard in the next two, should I get around to watching them
(There's also one called "Ip Man: The Final Fight" but it came out the same year as Ip Man 3, has a different cast, and sounds from its description like some cheap Western knockoff.)
I was rather amused by the captions at the end about what happened after he and his family escaped from the Japanese, saying that the Japanese "surrendered in 1945, finally defeated by the Chinese people" without a mention of the USA or any atomic bombs
And the end credits had a list of names of "Tealadies" which is excellent and much better than the American way of wasting such valuable screen time on accountants
After that, S1E1 of the French detective (or "flic") drama Spiral, as I've never seen it. Good stuff, though not in HD; but engaging enough that one doesn't notice the shonky picture too much
Goodnight all
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