The Grandmaster

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Tony Leung, at right, faces an opponent in a martial arts stance in a dimly lit, ornate room filled with mist in a scene from the film The Grandmaster.

The Grandmaster

film by Wong Kar-Wai [2013]

Also known as: “Yi dai zong shi”, “Yutdoi jungsi”

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Wong Kar-Wai
…genre with Yutdoi jungsi (2013; The Grandmaster), a biography of martial artist Yip Man (Leung), who was best known as the trainer of Bruce Lee. Wong wrote the screenplay for and produced the romantic comedy Bai du ren (2016; “See You Tomorrow”). It was directed by Zhang Jiajia, who wrote…
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…genre with Yutdoi jungsi (2013; The Grandmaster), a biography of martial artist Yip Man (Leung), who was best known as the trainer of Bruce Lee. Wong wrote the screenplay for and produced the romantic comedy Bai du ren (2016; “See You Tomorrow”). It was directed by Zhang Jiajia, who wrote…
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Zhang Ziyi
…Yi dai zong shi (The Grandmaster), a biopic about Ip Man, Bruce Lee’s martial-arts teacher. She later starred in John Woo’s two-part historical epic The Crossing (2014) and The Crossing 2 (2015). In The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), the third installment in the Cloverfield horror series, Zhang was cast as…
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…Yi dai zong shi (The Grandmaster), a biopic about Ip Man, Bruce Lee’s martial-arts teacher. She later starred in John Woo’s two-part historical epic The Crossing (2014) and The Crossing 2 (2015). In The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), the third installment in the Cloverfield horror series, Zhang was cast as…
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