Ultrapopular saga in China, Ip Man arrives for the first time in French theaters. Inspired by the life of the real Yip Kai-man, trainer of Bruce Lee, the adventures of the kung fu master had also been brought to the screen by Wong Kar-wai in 2013, in a more melancholy version called The Grandmaster .
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After having imposed the art of wing chun in Hong Kong and flanked opponents stronger than each other like a Rocky, Ip Man learns in this fourth part that he suffers from cancer. He also has to endure the mood swings of his son, fired from high school. In search of a new establishment, he flies to San Francisco. The dream quickly turns into a nightmare when he discovers that the America of the sixties is not very welcoming. There he finds a certain Bruce Lee. The “Little Dragon”, who in turn became a master, wanted to democratize kung fu in Uncle Sam's country, with a lot of lessons and books translated into English. Judging
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