Ip Man

Ip Man (2008) is a Hong Kong martial arts drama you can watch online on iFILM. Donnie Yen plays a real man: a soft-spoken Wing Chun expert from Foshan, a town where rival kung fu schools jostled for pupils on every corner.

Before the war he is the strongest fighter around, yet he keeps no students and trades blows only with friends at home. That quiet life ends when the Japanese army rolls in late in the 1930s. The family loses its grand house, and a once-wealthy gentleman ends up hauling coal at a mine. When the occupiers stage matches that force locals to fight for a bag of rice, the silent master steps onto the floor and drops ten opponents on his own. Sammo Hung choreographed the duels, and every exchange lands without a computer faking the impact.

Director Wilson Yip turned the life of the teacher who would later train Bruce Lee into a story about dignity under a boot heel. The film launched a whole franchise and put Wing Chun back on the map worldwide. Stream Ip Man (2008) online on iFILM.