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Wing Chun

  • 1994
  • TV-14
  • 1h 36m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
3.7K
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Michelle Yeoh in Wing Chun (1994)
Wing Chun's village is yet again being plundered by bandits. This time she uses kung fu to defeat them. The fighting doesn't end here.
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Wing Chun's village is yet again being plundered by bandits. This time she uses kung fu to defeat them. The fighting doesn't end here.Wing Chun's village is yet again being plundered by bandits. This time she uses kung fu to defeat them. The fighting doesn't end here.Wing Chun's village is yet again being plundered by bandits. This time she uses kung fu to defeat them. The fighting doesn't end here.

  • Director
    • Yuen Woo-Ping
  • Writers
    • Elsa Tang
    • Wing-Fai Wong
  • Stars
    • Michelle Yeoh
    • Donnie Yen
    • King-Tan Yuen
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.9/10
    3.7K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Yuen Woo-Ping
    • Writers
      • Elsa Tang
      • Wing-Fai Wong
    • Stars
      • Michelle Yeoh
      • Donnie Yen
      • King-Tan Yuen
    • 37User reviews
    • 20Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Michelle Yeoh
    Michelle Yeoh
    • Yim Wing Chun
    Donnie Yen
    Donnie Yen
    • Leung Pok To
    • (as Yen Chi Tan)
    King-Tan Yuen
    King-Tan Yuen
    • Abacus Fong
    Catherine Yan Hung
    Catherine Yan Hung
    • Charmy
    • (as Catherine Hung)
    Waise Lee
    Waise Lee
    • Wong Hok Chow
    • (as Lee Chi Hung)
    Norman Chu
    Norman Chu
    • Flying Chimpanze
    • (as Chui Siu Keung)
    Chui Ah-Fai
    • Flying Monkey
    Pei-Pei Cheng
    Pei-Pei Cheng
    • Ng Mui
    Zhihui Chen
    • Southern kung fu master
    Liu Hen
    • Squire
    Yue-Qiu Hou
    • Bandit leader
    Guo Jia-Qing
    • Yim Wing Chun's father
    Xian-Quan Kong
    • Squire
    Foo-Wai Lam
    Foo-Wai Lam
    • Bandit
    • (as Fu-Wai Lam)
    Xiaozhou Li
    • Bandit leader
    Jin Mao-Heng
    • Yim Wing Chow
    Chaai Ming
    • Villager
    Yaoxuan Shu
    • Charmy's husband
    • Director
      • Yuen Woo-Ping
    • Writers
      • Elsa Tang
      • Wing-Fai Wong
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    User reviews37

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    7Matti-Man

    Not much Wing Chun on display

    This is a great showcase for Michelle Yeoh, playing the legendary first practitioner of the wing chun style, Yim Wing-Chun. Trouble is, there's not much of the wing chun style shown in the film. The problem is that though the wing chun system is a very effective style in real life, it's not very visually engaging, so Yuen Woo Ping had to throw in some high kicks just to spice up the action a little ... but then, we don't watch kung fu films for historical or technical accuracy.

    Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen are both pretty good here. Certainly, Yeoh turns in a starry performance, though Yen could have been given more to do ...

    Overall, entertaining enough, but not primo YWP fare.
    8toqtaqiya2

    More of an adorably campy romantic comedy than an action flick.

    Wing Chun is an entertaining combination of slapstick humour and amazing martial arts fights. It's a romantic comedy at heart, one with a feminist bent. The story, while simple, features several memorable characters. There are setpiece battles that move the story along. Most of these feature Michelle Yeoh as the charismatic and beautiful Yim Wing Chun. Yuen Woo-ping's fight choreography is as usual inventive. He included moves that are quick and fresh, many of these aren't featured in other films. Donnie Yen's unusual turn as Leung Pok To, a man who has come to town to wed Yim Wing Chun is also of note. All in all, there's enough character development, humour, fights, and good scenery here to make Wing Chun one of the best martial arts films ever. It's not quite as good as the director's other famous film Iron Monkey (1993), but it's still a delight. Where else can you find actresses this good-looking and fights this exciting? Come to think of it, Peking Opera Blues (1986) probably influenced Yuen Woo-ping's filmmaking. I easily recommend seeing Wing Chun.
    7ebiros2

    One of best Kung Fu comedy

    Despite that fact that different plot ideas for Kung Fu movie has been fully exploited by now and no new ideas are coming, Wing Chun still stands out in its uniqueness mostly because Michelle Yeoh is its star. If this movie was done by anyone else, it probably would have ended up being a dud, but she brings class to this movie it otherwise would not have had. The movie has very different atmosphere from other Kung Fu movies. While silly things are happening, Michelle Yeoh's action is precise and eye opening. She's the only one playing strait, and it works.

    There has been other Kung Fu movies done by female lead, but they are mostly gruesomely violent. While there're lot of action in this movie, none of its action is violent. You won't see any blood, no bones being crushed, and yet it's filled with great action.

    Somewhat difficult to find these days, but you owe it to yourself to see this movie at least once.
    7nickthegun

    michelle yeoh at her best

    Michelle Yeoh stars as the titular Yim Wing Chun, the spiritual mother of Wing Chun kung fu (the kind they teach in Prodigal Son, amongst others). As you would expect from Yeoh, she is vibrant on screen, kicking a lot of arse and showing us the sensitive side to a martial arts hero.

    Wing Chun's village is constantly under threat by bandits led by the…erm… flying simian family (well two brothers, Flying Monkey and Flying Chimp). After she cracks some skulls, while rescuing the widow ‘Charmy', she makes enemies of the local martial artists, who lose face after Wing Chun shows them up, and the bandits, who want her dead and for Flying Monkey to marry Charmy. The scene where Wing Chun shows the local martial arts heros the ‘Art of fighting without fighting' in the soya shop is amazing. Anyway, after castrating flying monkey, flying chimp decides to challenge Wing Chun, for the honour of the bandit clan. With inevitable consequences.

    When Wing Chun isn't giving us great fight sequences, it plays it like quite a lot of HK cinema. For laughs. And, like a lot of HK cinema, it can get pretty irritating. A lot of mugging and juvenile humour are the order of the day here. Concentrating on that old Kung Fu film staple, getting laid.

    Wing Chun was one of the first great high flying new style kung fu films and stands the test of time, nine years on. I really liked it, and forgiving its faults is easy. Although Donnie Yen was criminally under used, but that's not such a big deal.
    JB-8

    One of the best chopsocky films

    Okay, so there are those out there who have not seen "Wing Chun." I understand ... it's not easy to get a hold of. But, if you can, you have to see it. It's the bomb of kung-fu films with female leads. Michelle Khan (Yeoh) is amazing. Doing all her own stunts (like Jackie Chan) really makes it all worthwhile. And this film, unlike so many kung-fu films, has an actual story ... and it's good, too. The cinematography is great and the humor intertwined throughout the film makes it lighter than would be expected. (And it's based on real events!!!!!)

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      There are innuendos including Flying Chimpanzee's "Champion Spear", and "To Eat Someone's Tofu" which is a Chinese idiom that means to flirt with a woman.
    • Connections
      Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Underrated Martial Arts Movies (2017)

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    • Release date
      • March 24, 1994 (Hong Kong)
    • Country of origin
      • Hong Kong
    • Language
      • Cantonese
    • Also known as
      • 詠春
    • Filming locations
      • Beijing, China
    • Production companies
      • Peace Film Production Co.
      • Sil-Metropole Organisation
      • Wo Ping Films Company Limited
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 36m(96 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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