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The Legend Is Born – Ip Man
''The Legend Is Born: Ip Man'' (Chinese: 葉問前傳) is a 2010 Hong Kong biographical martial arts film based on the early life of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man, directed by Herman Yau and starring Dennis To in the titular role. The film was followed by a sequel in 2013, Ip Man: The Final Fight. Though not made in collaboration with Wilson Yip's ''Ip Man'' or ''Ip Man 2'', ''The Legend is Born'' features several actors who appeared in Yip's films, including Sammo Hung, Louis Fan, and Chen Zhihui. The film also features a special appearance by Ip Chun, the son of Ip Man. Released as ''Ip Man Zero'' in German and Dutch-speaking areas. Plot As a child, Ip Man learns Wing Chun from Chan Wah-shun together with his adopted brother Ip Tin-chi and their mutual friend Lee Mei-wai, who later develops unrequited feelings for Ip while Tin-chi develops unrequited feelings for Mei-wai. After Chan's death from an illness, Ip Man continues to learn Wing Chun from his senior, Ng Chung- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Yau
Herman Yau Lai-to (; born 13 July 1961) is a Hong Kong people, Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Filmography * 1987: ''Tragic Hero'' – Co-Cinematographer * 1987: ''No Regret (1987 film), No Regret'' – Director * 1988: ''The Truth (1988 film), The Truth'' – Cinematographer * 1988: ''Reunion (1988 film), Reunion'' – Cinematographer/Music * 1988: ''Law or Justice'' – Cinematographer * 1989: ''Triads: The Inside Story'' – Cinematographer * 1989: ''Sentenced to Hang'' – Cinematographer * 1989: ''Stars and Roses'' – Cinematographer * 1990: ''Vampire Kids'' – Co-Cinematographer * 1990: ''Fantasy Romance'' – Cinematographer * 1991: ''Don't Fool Me'' – Director * 1991: ''Freedom Run Q'' – Cinematographer * 1991: ''My Flying Wife'' – Cinematographer * 1991: ''The Magic Touch (film)'' – Cinematographer * 1992: ''Cageman'' – Actor * 1992: ''With or Without You (1992 film), With or Without You'' – Cinematographer * 1992: ''Best of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chen Zhihui
Chen Zhihui is a Chinese actor best known for playing supporting roles in various films and television series since the 1980s. Some of his more notable roles in film include: Master Chin in '' Jet Li's Fearless'' (2006); Zhang Fei in '' Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon'' (2008); Master Liu in ''Ip Man'' (2008). Career Chen is from Chengde, Hebei. In his early years, he joined a performing arts group and learnt dancing. He won an award in a national dancing competition. In 1980, he enrolled in the Hebei Medical School (now part of the Hebei Medical University). In 1986, he was accepted into the Central Academy of Drama and studied drama there. Chen has made appearances in various films and television series since 1987. In the early 2000s, he joined the Hong Kong television network TVB for two years and acted in two TVB dramas, ''Blade Heart ''Blade Heart'' ( Japanese: ''血の推薦軒轅.'') is a Hong Kong television series released on 12 March 2004 by TVB. Synopsis S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wen Junhui
Wen Junhui (; ; born June 10, 1996), professionally known by his stage name Jun (), is a Chinese singer, dancer, and actor based in South Korea. He is a member of the South Korean boy group Seventeen and its subunit Performance Team. Before debuting as a member of Seventeen, Jun was a child actor who starred in multiple films including ''The Pye Dog'' (2006), for which he won the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild's Best New Actor Silver Award, and '' The Legend Is Born: Ip Man'' (2010). Early life Wen Junhui was born on June 10, 1996, in Shenzhen. He has a younger brother named Fengjun who is ten years younger than him. As a child, Jun began starring in commercials at the age of two and worked as a child actor on TV shows and movies in Hong Kong and Mainland China. Career Early career and debut In October 2012, Jun moved to South Korea to undergo training under Pledis Entertainment. From 2013 to 2015, he appeared on '' Seventeen TV'' and ''Seventeen Project: Big Debut Plan'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Brother
Blood brother can refer to two or more men not related by birth who have sworn loyalty to each other. This is in modern times usually done in a ceremony, known as a blood oath, where each person makes a small cut, usually on a finger, hand or the forearm, and then the two cuts are pressed together and bound, the idea being that each person's blood now flows in the other participant's veins. The act carries a risk due to blood-borne diseases. The process usually provides a participant with a heightened symbolic sense of attachment with the other participant. Cultures Scandinavia The Norsemen entering the pact of foster brotherhood ( is, Fóstbræðralag) involved a rite in which they let their blood flow while they ducked underneath an arch formed by a strip of turf propped up by a spear or spears. An example is described in ''Gísla saga''. In '' Fóstbræðra saga'', the bond of Thorgeir Havarsson (Þorgeir Hávarsson) and Thormod Bersason (Þormóð Bersason) is sealed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shanghai International Film Festival
The Shanghai International Film Festival (, French: ''Festival international du film de Shanghai''), abbreviated SIFF, is one of the largest film festivals in East Asia. "China's biggest film festival" according to the Hollywood Reporter. Next to Tokyo International Film Festival, the SIFF is considered by many to be the second biggest film festival in Asia. The first festival was held from October 7 to 14, 1993. In 2003 there was no festival due to the SARS outbreak. Since its beginning in 1993, Shanghai International Film Festival has grown to become an A-category international film festival. Every June, the 10-day film festival arrives as scheduled, and it has become an important sight in Shanghai's cultural life. The Shanghai Film Festival has screened more than 400 Chinese and foreign films. SIFF organized by Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film & TV and Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group. It awards several "Golden Goblet" Awards () for best film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Movie Channel Media Awards
China Movie Channel Media Awards (电影频道传媒大奖) are presented at each Shanghai International Film Festival by China Movie Channel China Movie Channel (), the trade name of (), an agency at the Chinese Government's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television. In mainland China, the agency provides programming to the China Central Television chann .... Voted by the reporters in the entertainment industry, the awards are aimed at "promoting medium-and-small-budget homegrown movies and exposing talented young directors and actors". The individual categories were "Most Attractive Director"(最受关注导演), "Most Attractive Actor"(最受关注男演员) and "Most Attractive Actress"(最受关注女演员) during 2007–2010. Since 2011, the categories alter to "Best Director"(最佳导演), "Best Actor"(最佳男主角) and "Best Actress"(最佳女主角). In 2016, they changed the individual categories back to pre-2011 again. Award categor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seppuku
, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri (, , a native Japanese kun reading), is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for samurai in their code of honour but was also practised by other Japanese people during the Shōwa period (particularly officers near the end of World War II) to restore honour for themselves or for their families. As a samurai practice, ''seppuku'' was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honour rather than fall into the hands of their enemies (and likely be tortured), as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offences, or performed because they had brought shame to themselves. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of plunging a short blade, traditionally a ''tantō'', into the belly and drawing the blade from left to right, slicing the belly open. If the cut is deep enough, it can sever the abdominal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheung Wing-sing
Cheung Wing-sing (; 1897 – 1960) was the wife of Wing Chun master Ip Man. Biography Little is known about Cheung's birth and childhood life except that she was a relative of the Qing Dynasty official Zhang Yinhuan () (1837–1900), who was involved in the Hundred Days' Reform movement in 1898, and that she was born to educated parents in Foshan. In 1916 she was married to Yip Man in Foshan and they had four children: sons Yip Chun () and Yip Ching () and daughters Yip Nga-sum () and Yip Nga-wun (). According to her son Yip Chun, she and Yip had never quarreled. Cheung herself was a traditional Chinese woman who was solemn, supportive, and tolerant of her husband. After the Communist victory in the civil war, Cheung, her husband Yip, and their elder daughter Nga-sum left Foshan for Hong Kong in 1950. Soon after they arrived at Hong Kong through Macau, Cheung and her son returned to Foshan to retrieve their identity cards. However the closure of borders between China and Hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leung Jan
Leung Jan (born Leung Tak-wing; 1826–1901) was a Chinese martial artist and Wing Chun practitioner from Heshan, Guangdong. He was known in Foshan as ''Mr. Jan of Foshan'' and ''King of Wing Chun Kuen''. Leung Jan is one of the earliest well-documented practitioners of Wing Chun, which was mainly passed down verbally from teacher to student prior to Leung Jan. Background Born Leung Tak-wing in 1826 in Heshan, Guangdong, he had a elder brother, Leung Tak-nam, who would later become a successful businessman. His father later moved to Kuai Zi, Foshan and Leung helped ran a traditional Chinese medicine Dit Da clinic there. At the age of 18, he was trained by Leung Yee-tai in Southern Shaolin skills. Yee-tai later introduced Jan to his partner Wong Wah-bo. Wong was also a Gulao (古勞) resident like Jan, and he taught Jan the whole Wing Chun skill set. From 1870 onwards, under the nickname Leung Jan, he succeed his father medical business and work within the Wing Sang Tong (榮 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leung Bik
Leung Bik (born Leung Bik-wo with the courtesy name Tai-wah; 1845 – 1911), also known as Mr. Bik (), was a Wing Chun martial artist. He was one of Ip Man's teachers. History He was born in Foshan in 1845 as the second of the nine sons of Leung Jan by his second wife with the surname of Cheng (). At the young age he practiced Wing Chun under his father and grand-teacher Wong Wah-bo (). By then, Leung Bik's Wing Chun skill sets were in its most completed forms, which three forms includes Mu ren zhuang, Eight-cut knives and Six-and-a-Half Point Pole, as well as Qigong. Due to the political situation in the late Qing Dynasty, Leung left Foshan for Hong Kong, where he made a living running a silk and satin business at Cha Wai Street () (present day Jervois Street) in Sheung Wan. In 1909, Leung was introduced to Ip Man by Ip's classmate Lai, who was also a son of Leung's friend. Leung challenged Ip to a friendly sparring match at Lai's house, Leung defeated Ip twice and Ip left wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta in South China. With 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world. Hong Kong is also a major global financial centre and one of the most developed cities in the world. Hong Kong was established as a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island from Xin'an County at the end of the First Opium War in 1841 then again in 1842.. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898... British Hong Kong was occupied by Imperial Japan from 1941 to 1945 during World War II; British administration resume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foshan
Foshan (, ), alternately romanized as Fatshan, is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. The entire prefecture covers and had a population of 9,498,863 as of the 2020 census. The city is part of the western side of the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone whose built-up (or metro) area was home to 65,694,622 inhabitants as of 2020 (excluding Hong Kong not conurbated yet), making it the biggest urban area of the world. Foshan is regarded as the home of Cantonese opera, a genre of Chinese opera; Nanquan, a martial art; and lion dancing. Name ''Fóshān'' is the pinyin romanization of the city's Chinese name , based on its Mandarin pronunciation. The Postal Map spelling "Fatshan" derives from the same name's local Cantonese pronunciation. Other romanizations include Fat-shan and Fat-shun. Foshan means "BuddhaMountain" and, despite the more famous present-day statue of Guanyin (or Kwanyin) on Mount Xiqiao, who isn't a Buddha, it refers to a smaller hill n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
