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IP MAN 2

IP Man 2 is a 2010 Hong Kong martial arts biographic movie based on the life of Ip Man, a grandmaster of Wing Chun martial arts. Continuing from where the first film ended, Wing Chun master Ip Man and his family moved to Hong Kong in the early 1950s after their escape from Foshan. There, the Ip wishes to open the martrial art school, as well as to make a living, but he has difficulty attracting students because lack of reputation in the city. One day, a young man named Wong Leung appears and challenges Ip to fight, but he is easily defeated. Wong leaves humiliated, only to return with a few friends to gang up on him. IP beat them too. Impressed by his skills, Wong and his friend became the first Ip students. Wong is later caught posting promotional posters for the school by some Hung Gar students the student from local martial art school in there. One of them challenges Wong to a fight and lose, but his friends take Wong hostage in revenge and demand a ransom from Ip. Ip goes to the local market as directed, but the meeting ends in a confrontation with a growing mob of Hung Ga students. The students' master, Hung Chun-nam, arrived to break up the fight.Hung informs him that before build up a school, he needs to test his skill. Ip attends the test held by Hung and defeats his first challengers, and then strikes a draw with the last challenger, Hung. Ip is allowed to keep running his school on the condition that he pay the monthly protection fees, but he declines Ip soon confront Hung, who blames him since he wouldn't pay the protection fees. Hung insists that they finish their fight, but during this last encounter, Ip stops Hung from accidentally kicking his son as he suddenly appears, earning his respect from Hung. Ip leaves, and the next day, Hung invites him to a British boxing match he had helped to set up. Next day the boxing competition begins with the various martial arts schools demonstrated their skills. However, the event's star boxer, Taylor Milos which called "The Twister" , openly insults and attacks the students from the various martial arts school in there and causing chaos. Hung accepts Twister's challenge to a fight so that he can defend his culture. Although Hung has seen will be win at first, in the second round accidentaliy he get, misfortunate and devastating blow that severely disorientates him. As he still fights on, he begins to weaken from his asthma and is eventually beaten viciously to death by the British boxer, as he refuses to go down and allow the man to insult his culture. News of Hung's death rapidly spreads throughout the enraged Chinese people and Twister announces that he will accept any challenge from the Chinese and going to murder every Chinese Warrior in Hong Kong to prove superority of western boxing. Ip Man come to Twister and challenge him to a fight.

After Ip finishes his training, He begins fight with Twister. In the first Ip seems overwhelmed by the westerner's , but begins to make a comeback using his more Wing Chun techniques. He received a direct punch from Twister after the second round's bell that make him down for a moment but he still survive,after he stand up ,he told he will be disqualified if he using kicks because the judges changing the rules during the match.Then he changes his strategy and attacks the boxer's arms to disable him. This fight is brought to the end as Ip Man rains blow after blow into the knocked down Twister's face. Ip nearly kills Twister in his rage and fury, but manages to restrain himself before the final punch. While the Chinese audience cheers, Ip then gives a speech to the audience, stating that despite the differences between their races and their fighting styles, he wishes for everyone to respect each other. Both the Western and Chinese audience then give him a standing applause while Twister's manager walks away unhappy at the west's failure to defeat China. Ip goes home and reunites with his family A final scene shows Ip being introduced to a boy named Bruce Lee who wishes to study Wing Chun. Ip smiles and simply tells the boy to come back when he is older.

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