The Grandmaster | Blu-ray & DVD (Anchor Bay)
Today’s Deal on Fire is the Blu-ray Wong Kar Wai’s 2013 masterpiece, The Grandmaster, an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary Kung Fu master, Ip Man, who mentored Bruce Lee.
The Grandmaster stars Tony Leung Chiu Wai (Seven Warriors), Zhang Ziyi (The Banquet), Chen Chang (Brotherhood of Blades), Song Hye-Kyo (The Crossing), Bruce Leung Siu-Lung (Dragon Lives Again) and Zhao Ben-Shan (Accidental Hero).
The story itself covers all the terrain of both Ip Man films starring Donnie Yen and much, much more. We enter the narrative before the Japanese invasion of China, as Ip Man lives in peace and prosperity with his wife and children. We follow him through the war, and into an illicit and sexless romance. Ip Man falls in love with rival martial artist Gong Er, played by the predictably terrific Ziyi Zhang, yet they share barely any scenes with one another. Rather, as the narrative splits and follows each of their exploits during and after the war – which takes us to Hong Kong, into the story of Ip Man 2 – the characters live in one another’s memories, and fuel one another’s passions.
Order The Grandmaster from Amazon.com today!
If it’s Anchor Bay, I hope this means we get the original cut, too.
i think it was a pretty decent film i would purchase it its not as good as ip man but it is decent. i give it 3/4. please i would love other opinions.
Those Amazon links seem to list the longer runtimes…
Too bad it’s the cut version.