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To celebrate the release of acclaimed martial arts movie The Final Master from Cine Asia, we have an awesome kung fu DVD double bill up for grabs including Ip Man and Young Bruce Lee, to get you in the mood for action.

Don’t miss The Final Master making its long-awaited arrival in the UK! In 1930’s China, Wing Chun master Chen She (Fan Liao, Assembly, Chinese Zodiac), arrives in Tianjin, a city famous for martial arts. With plans to open his own kung fu school, he must first train a student to defeat eight of the city’s masters, legitimising himself as a teacher. But when he is caught up in local politics and an underworld power struggle, Chen finds himself at odds with dangerous people and will fight to protect what he holds most dear.

Written and directed by Xu Haofeng (The Grandmaster) and co-starring Jia Song (Shock Wave Tunnel,...

Attempting to explore more traditional terrain, writer/director Xu Haofeng decides to explore one of his own novellas for his third directorial outing after the acclaimed efforts ‘The Sword Identity’ and ‘Judge Archer.’ Employing a more recent stage for his period-set martial arts drama, ‘The Final Master’ or released under the original title ‘Shi Fu,’ allows him to go for a realistic touch to the martial arts.

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Desperate to open a new studio, martial arts master Chen Shi (Fan Liao, from “Black Coal, Thin Ice”) yearns to introduce Wing Chun, a relatively new martial arts style, into Chinese territories. When told by Grandmaster Zheng (Shih-Chieh King, from “Brotherhood of Blades”) that such a practice is not allowed, he and his wife Zhao Guohui (Jia Song, from “Red Cliff”) find a way of getting around the circumstances by signing a protegee and selecting Geng Yiangchen (Song Yang, from...

Director: Xu Haofeng

Cast: Liao Fan, Da Song Jia, Jiang Wenli, Huang Jue, Jin Shijie

Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller

Release Date: 11th Decemeber 2015

“The Master”, is based on Haofeng Xu’s award-winning book of the same name, who also wrote the screen play for “The Grand Master“, “The Sword Identity” and “Judge Archer” (Which he also Directed).

Liao Fan is one of China’s rising stars, appearing along side Chow Yun Fat in (Let The Bullets Fly), The Master will be his first movie where he portrays Martial Arts. But looking at the trailer, Liao Fan looks great in this role and i look forward to seeing the overall result.

Here is the trailer for The Master, also i have added a few more pictures for you to view underneath also.

Brotherhood of Blades is an upcoming period movie directed by Lu Yang (The Spectacular Theatre) and will star Cecilia Liu and Chang Chen. Set in the late Ming Dynasty, the movie tells the story of three people who serve in there kingdom as Jinyiwei guards. They have to go after Wei Zhongxian (Jin Shijie), who is on the run and must be caught at all costs (But is it all a strange conspiracy?).

The movie is set for release on the 7th August 2014. The teaser trailer looks good, lots of action which i am a fan off and will pick this up after it’s release for a review.