The Grandmasters 2013 720p HDTV x264

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The Grandmaster (also known as The Grandmasters) is a Hong Kong-Chinese[1] action drama film based on the life story of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man. The film is directed and written by Wong Kar-wai and starred Tony Leung as Ip Man. It was released on 8 January 2013 in China. It was the opening film at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2013.

Plot

The film chronicles the life of the Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man from the 1930s in Foshan, his flight to Hong Kong after the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the events leading to his death.

The movie begins with Ip Man reflecting on martial arts, and then cuts to a scene of a fight under the rain between Ip and a dozen combatants. Ip Man wins, and experiences flashbacks of his life, from his early training at the age of seven to his induction into martial arts by his master Chan Wah-shun, and his marriage to his wife Cheung Wing-sing.

Ip Man's peaceful existence is threatened by the arrival of Gong Yutian, a martial arts master from northern China, who announces that he has already retired and has appointed Ma San as his heir in the North. He then concedes that the South should have its own heir. A flurry of discussions and fights erupt as various masters attempt to challenge Gong, but they are all barred by Ma San. As the Southern masters are deliberating on a representative, Gong Yutian's daughter Gong Er arrives and she tries to convince her father not to continue the fight. Meanwhile, the Southern masters decide on Ip Man to represent them, and Ip proceeds to be tested by three Southern masters before he challenges Gong Yutian. However, the "fight" between Ip and Gong turns out to be actually an exchange of philosophical ideas. Gong declares Ip the winner and returns to northern China. However, Gong Er sets out to regain her family's honour by challenging Ip Man, and they agree that whoever breaks a piece of furniture during the fight will be the loser. An intense fight breaks out between Ip Man and Gong Er, which concludes with victory for Gong because Ip broke a step at the very end. Ip and Gong then part on friendly terms.

Ip Man and Gong Er keep in contact after parting ways by exchanging letters, and Ip intends to bring his family with him to northern China, but his plans are disrupted by the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. During the war, Ip Man and his family descend into poverty and he loses his two daughters due to starvation. In the meantime, in northern China, Ma San becomes a hanjian and ends up killing Gong Yutian. When Gong Er returns, she confronts her elders for forsaking her father but they tell her that her father's final wish was for her to be happy and not to seek vengeance. Gong Er refuses to accept that and she vows to never teach or marry until she has avenged her father.

Ip Man moves to Hong Kong in the hope of starting a career as a martial arts teacher, but ends up facing all sorts of challenges because there were also numerous other martial arts masters. He defeats them soundly and earns a reputation. He meets Gong Er again on Christmas Eve 1950 and ask her for a contest one more time while implies that she should start rebuilding her martial art school. But Gong Er refuses stating that many martial arts disappeared in the course of history; hers should not be the only one. A flashback after that shows a confrontation happens between Gong Er and Ma San at a train station on Christmas Eve 1940, and Gong defeats Ma after a brutal and intense fight. However, Gong herself is heavily injured and lost her ability to use martial art.

The film then fast-forwards to the 1952, when Ip Man and Gong Er meet each other for the last time. Gong confesses to Ip that she has romantic feelings for him right from the beginning. She dies shortly after. The cause of death was never clearly stated but it was implied that in the fight with Ma San not only her martial arts was lost, her life shortened, too. The final scenes offer a visual montage as Ip Man's school flourishes. Off screen, it is stated that Ip Man died in 1972.
Cast

Tony Leung as Yip Man (Ye Wen)
Zhang Ziyi as Gong Er
Song Hye-kyo as Cheung Wing-sing (Zhang Yongcheng)
Chang Chen as "The Razor" Yixiantian
Zhao Benshan as Ding Lianshan
Wang Qingxiang as Gong Yutian
Zhang Jin as Ma San
Yuen Woo-ping as Chan Wah-shun (Chen Huashun)
Xiaoshenyang as Sanjiangshui
Cung Le as Tiexieqi
Shang Tielong as Jiang
Lo Hoi-pang as Uncle Deng
Chin Shih-chieh as Gong clan elder
Wang Jue as Gong clan elder
Lau Ga-yung as Yong
Lau Shun as Rui
Zhou Xiaofei as Gu
Bruce Leung
Julian Cheung
Lo Mang
Berg Ng