Yip Man (2008)

Cantonese Movie.

A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun.

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Max Beesley, and Anamaria Marinca headline this chilling "Masterpiece" production concerning a brilliant mathematician, who is inadvertently drawn into becoming the public face of a massive database designed to track and control the citizens of England. Stephen Ezard is working in China when he receives word that his brother Michael, a benevolent aid worker, has been killed in Afghanistan by a landmine. Returning to England to attend Michael's funeral, Stephen is deeply disturbed to discover just how much his home country has changed since he left to work abroad many years ago. Over the cour...
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se of those years, Stephen and Michael grew apart, and now the discovery that London has become a police state causes the reclusive genius to wonder just what the world is coming to. After falling in love with his brother's widow Yasim, Stephen is recruited by the government to be the spokesperson for a massive super-database designed to help the government follow the actions and movements of every man, woman, and child in England. As the conspiracy winds ever deeper, and Stephen's paranoia swells, he begins to suspect that no one is who they seem to be. His ability to trust completely eroded, Stephen realizes that it's too late for turning back, and that personal freedom is little more than a distant memory.
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Een waargebeurd verhaal dat zich afspeelt in de jaren ’30 in Fuoshan (China). Ip Man wordt door de hele stad bewonderd om zijn vechttechnieken en zijn integere levenswijze. Hij neemt als enige meester in de stad geen leerlingen aan en leeft een rustig, gelukkig leven. Wanneer de invasie van Japan een einde maakt aan zijn gelukzalige leven en het leven van al zijn stadsgenoten verandert de zaak. Een Japanse generaal daagt de verschillende meesters uit het stadje uit tot een gevecht. Ip Man is terughoudend en vindt het belangrijker om zijn gezin te onderhouden. Zijn houding verandert wanneer blijkt dat sommige geve...
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chten tot de dood gaan...
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