We’ll soon be seeing Dennis To revisiting the role of Ip Man, the real-life Wing Chun grandmaster made famous to the mainstream by Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen’s iconic Ip Man franchise.
The upcoming Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend marks To’s 4th time playing the titular character, following 2010’s Ip Man: The Legend is Born, 2018’s Kung Fu League and 2019’s Ip Man: Kung Fu Master.
The film is directed by Li Liming, best known for 2020’s Young Ip Man: Crisis Time (starring Zhao Wenhao as Ip Man) and the aforementioned Ip Man: Kung Fu Master (2019) — the latter serving as the direct predecessor to Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend.
Also starring in Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend is Zhou Xiaofei (Ip Man 4: The Finale), Steven Dasz (Armour of God III: Chinese Zodiac) and Zhang Tingfei (Coming Home). The film features martial arts choreography by Sun Fei, who is known for his work in 2003’s Warriors of Heaven and Earth, 2006’s The Banquet and of course, the once again aforementioned, Ip Man: Kung Fu Master.
Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend will release in China on Iqiyi just before or after Chinese New Year. Well Go USA will be releasing the film later this year in the states.
We expect a Trailer soon, until then, here’s a pack of exclusive photos from the film:
I hope this is better than the last Dennis To outing. That was pretty rotten of the trailers of that movie to make it look like Ip Man was running around fighting the Imperial army while dressed up as Kato only for most of it to take place off screen.
He’s played the role 4 times now but its damning with faint praise when i say he gave the best performance in KungFu League where he’s crying because he got sexually assaulted by Wong Fei Hung over a Big Mac Meal