Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend | 4K Ultra HD (Well Go USA)
On July 14, 2026, Well Go USA will be releasing the 4K Ultra, Blu-ray, DVD and Digital for Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend. In the film, Dennis To revisits 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 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.
Official plot: British merchants and Chinese triads have joined forces. This move draws fierce opposition from Ip Man, who is standing up for the workers. Framed for murder, he is sent to prison. Within the prison walls, the triads set multiple deadly traps. Can Ip Man overcome these trials, escape the danger and clear his name?
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.
🔥 Footnote: Ip Man: Kung Fu Legend marks Dennis 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.
Watch the recent Trailer below, followed by a pack of 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
Dennis To is the epitome of wasted potential. I really enjoyed his outing in 2010’s Ip Man: The Legend is Born. He held his own both as an actor and a screen fighter with the veterans, and it remains one of my favorites from the Ip Man craze of the 2010s.
Sadly, he got in a contract dispute with his mentor, Sifu Checkley Sin, IIRC, and it put the kibosh in his career, and he hasn’t really done anything of note since. Even his appearance in Kung Fu League was a total farce. His last Ip Man webmovie was boring/terrible, typical of the genre with poor writing, acting, directing, and editing. He needs a director to raise his game the way Xie Miao has successfully done.
I’m not particularly hopeful this film will do anything to change the trajectory of his career, or give us another solid Ip Man banger, though I do hope he delivers on his promise as a screen action star soon.
I love The Legend is Born. I watch it just as much as the Donnie Yen films. I don’t have high hopes for this one since it’s from the same director as Crises Zone, so I’m worried the fights will be just as bad here.
I haven’t seen Grandmaster of Kung Fu yet, but it didn’t look bad.
Looks like another one made for street in china and get a Dvd release in the west just to make money. I am not paying 35 to 40 dollars for a 4k.
The original Ip Man is one of the best martial arts movies of the last 20 years. I didn’t think too much of the second film, but I really dug Ip Man 3. Ip Man: The Legend is Born was fantastic, and I actually really liked Ip Man: The Final Fight with Anthony Wong. All the other Ip Man movies have been terrible, mostly with horrendous western-style film-making like too many Dutch angles, shaky-cam, and rapid-fire editing. I think this new one looks awful. For me, the problem is that all these new non-Donnie Yen Ip Man movies all feel the same.
I did like The Grandmaster a lot. I liked how meditative and introspective it was while being generous with the amount of action shown. Ip Man 4 kind of went into DTV territory, but it was fast paced and the fight scenes were as good as ever. Donnie Yen vs Scott Adkins was the dream match that came true.
Master Z was also an enjoyable romp in spite of some flaws. I just hope we don’t go back to the era of too many Ip Mans again.
Hey, someone else who can appreciate Master Z…I never thought I’d see the day!
Oh yes, I posted my thoughts on the review page a while back. I never would have guessed Max Zhang and Dave Bautista would have good chemistry in their big fight scene.
The Grandmaster didn’t feel like it was about Ip Man, though, despite the marketing. But to be fair, Tony Leung did a great job as Ip Man. Master Z was also pretty great for a spin-off. There was an interview that Donnie Yen did for Ip Man 2 in which he said that he was afraid of an influx of movies about Ip Man. Obviously, he’s made more Ip Man movies himself, and from what I understand, he’s doing another one, but he was right about one thing: The oversaturation of Ip Man movies has been flooding the market in almost the same way that movies about Wong Fei Hung have been. It feels like Ip Man’s been turned into a prop of sorts, and that’s where my problem is, I think.
Even Donnie himself went one too many with Ip Man 4. For a supposed big budget movie it absolutely failed to recreate a 60s ish San Fransico. Even its Chinatown set looked appalingly bad. A man called Hero’s attempt at early 1900s NY looked better and that was a Shanghai street set.
And the movie itself is totally redundant. Remove Donnie from the movie and it makes no difference because he’s not actually the protaganist of the movie. And you can tell it was made during the peak wolf warrior era. Every gweilo was super evil from the police, teachers, parents and even students. And there was subtle digs at Cantonese culture. During the big fight at Chinatown notice how all the sifus speaking Cantonese got their asses kicked and made to look stupid. Only the Mandarin speaking lady sifu puts up a good fight.
Ip man 3 although not perfect was a good end to the trilogy. They leaned too much on fridging his wife to have some emotional stakes but it works. Ip man 4 is the alien resurrection of the franchise. If they make part 5, that would be the equialent of AvP 2
Yeah, Ip Man 4 felt very derivative with it’s over-the-top villain. Don’t get me wrong: Scott Adkins did a great job, but the only thing the character was missing was a mustache to twirl. Ip Man 3 actually had a very interesting antagonist in a rival Wing Chun master, which ended up being one of the best fight scenes in the entire series. The Ip Man movies work best when they have an antagonist that feels compelling like the Japanese general in Donnie Yen’s first Ip Man, and Max Zhang’s character in Ip Man 3. Ip Man 4? Honestly, it’s just not that fun to watch, and it looks like a DTV movie. One of the cheaper ones.
While I don’t hate it, Ip Man 3 was the least interesting film for me in the series. I felt like the stakes weren’t treated with a lot of immediacy, and motivations were questionable.
It would have been better if the main villain were another actor while Mike Tyson played his silent right hand man. It was also unbelievable that his evil land owner was a loving father and husband.
That plot of him using human traffickers to help him get the land was glossed over and resolved a little too dismissively.
I also felt like Max Zhang became a villain for no reason. It was nonsensical for him to be friends with Donnie Yen and just start assaulting people and talking shit about him out of the blue. This was something that I hoped Master Z would resolve, but it was swept under the rug.
While their fight scene was well done, nothing was at stake, and it was happening without an audience, so it felt empty in spite of the technical achievement in action design.
All fair points. The fight with emotional stakes was in the middle of the movie where Yen has to fight Tony Jaa lookalike and also make sure his wife isnt hurt. It doesn’t fully work cos his wife in these movies was not a very sympathetic character but terminal illness tropes work for a reason.
I think enough time has passed now that we can see that only the first movie belongs in the S-tier list of martial arts movies. And even then the climax of part 1 was a bit of a mess and has the hallmarks of censorship and a re-edit.
To be fair, the Gweilo Bashing has been a mainstay of the IP MAN films since IP MAN 2 (which so blatantly ripped off ROCKY 4 I’m surprised Stallone didn’t sue!) whose corrupt white cops was topped only by Dahren Shahlavi’s (RIP) cartoonishly racist fighter.
IP MAN 3 thankfully toned all that down and even had the decency to respect Mike Tyson’s pedigree as a fighter by having his brawl with Donnie be a draw.
The gweilo bashing works in Ip Man 2 because they were clearly doing a Rocky 4 homage even down to the training montages. The only thing missing was a classic 80s Survivor song! And there’s enough motivation for Yen to fight cos he needs to avenge Apollo…I mean Sammo.
In part 4, Yen fights Adkins because the script tells him to and because Adkins was also the final boss in Wolf Warrior so by assoication the Chinese audiences knew he was evil.
But even all of this aside part 4 is just a poorly made movie. Its supposedly a high budget movie but looks like a straight to streaming effort with zero effort to recreate San Francisco.
The only interesting thing in the movie one of the raicst fighters looked a bit Chinese himself. Maybe thats meta commentary on chinese people who hate being chinese.
Donnie vs Tyson ending in a draw was not a respect for Tyson’s pedigree. It was because Tyson didn’t want to lose a fictional fight, and there was no way the star of the movie was going to lose either.
It’s hard to ignore the similarities with Ip Man 2 and Rocky IV, but all of the sequels seemed to be taking bits and pieces from the Rocky films. I don’t know if it was a coincidence or the film maker’s attempts at appealing to a western audience.
The respecting Tyson as a fighter thing I got from an old Wilson Yip interview which I can’t seem to find. But Tyson himself not wanting to lose could be an equally legit reason. Although ole’ Mike had no issues cashing a paycheck to lose another fictional fight to of all people, a Bollywood actor in a Hindi movie called LIGER years later:-)
But I guess it’s one thing to lose a fight in a film mostly seen only by an Indian audience, and quite another to have your ass handed to you in a production that has a more international reach.
That certainly is interesting. Regardless of someone’s real life fighting skill, it would seem strange to want to protect their image, but I guess lots of people are like that.
Karen Shepard didn’t want to lose her fight against Cynthia Rothrock in Righting Wrongs because she was worried it would damage her reputation. Something like that seems so trivial.
Of course there’s more jokes about other people Tyson had no problem losing to, but there’s no reason to go there.