The life story of Ip Man, the first person to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun, and Bruce Lee's trainer. It's now the early 1950s and, having survived the Japanese invasion of southern ...

who studied the Southern Chinese-style of kung fu under grandmaster Ip Man and is credited with being one of Bruce Lee’s teachers. Among those paying their respects to Wong – who died in 1997 ...

The franchise is loosely based on the life of the actual Ip Man (or Yip Man), a Chinese martial arts grandmaster who specialized in the art of Wing Chun, and whose most famous student was Bruce ...