港都 - The Harbor - Upcoming

港都 (The Harbor) is being released in Taipei this coming weekend. I had orginally thought this was an Hong Kong movie when I saw the poster for it back in January. However, the only HK dude in the cast seems to be Dennis To. Jimmy Hung seems to have spent most his professional time in Taiwan. I remember Jimmy from his Tension days. Half the doods from Tension were from the LA area and could hardly speak Mandarin.



The cast also seems to include some new faces of the Taiwan movie scene. Including otaku goddess, Dou Hua Mei (宅男女神 豆花妹).

Looks very b-movie in quality, but its prolly going to blow my mind when I watch it. Looking forward to it.

Ip Man: The Legend Is Born - 葉問前傳

Ip Man: The Legend Is Born (葉問前傳) is 2010 film out of Hong Kong. The movie stars Dennis To, Fan Siu-wong, Huang Yi, Yuen Biao, and Rose Chan. The supporting casts includes Sammo Hung, Lam Suet, and Bernice Liu.

The movie starts with Ip Man, played by Dennis To, joining a Wing Chun association. The association is headed by Sammo Hung as Chan Wah-shun. Ip Man joins with his god brother Ip Tin Chi, played by Fan Siu-wong. Ip Man goes off to school in Hong Kong, where he learns English and a separate style of Wing Chun. After he graduates, he heads back to Foshan to rejoin the Wing Chun association. But the Japanese want to take over the association and even plant a spy. Ip Man finds out who this spy is and saves the association. But not before they do lots and lots of fighting.



The movie was a brisk watch over a period of 3 days. On and off I watched and it wasn't a film that made me want to finish it in one sitting. The fighting was ok. Nothing spectacular. If anything, Dennis To's Ip Man seemed slow.