Ip Man 2 Blu-ray (US)

Ip Man 2 Blu-ray (US)

Collector's Edition | Yip Man 2 / Legend of the Grand Master

Well Go USA | 2010 | 109 min | Not rated | Apr 19, 2011

Ip Man (Yen) and his family relocating from China to Hong Kong in the early 1950s. There, he attempts to establish a Wing Chun school, but is challenged at every turn by potential students like Wong Leung (Huang Xiaoming), who later became one of Ip's greatest disciples, and other schools, including a Hung Ga school led by Hung Chun-nam (the legendary Sammo Hung, who also serves as the film's martial arts choreographer). Ip's astonishing skills help him to defend his school's honor, but in order to truly establish roots in Hong Kong, he is forced to participate in a city-wide boxing competition, where he faces a variety of styles and competitors, including an unscrupulous British fighter (Darren Shahlavi).

Pemain: Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam, Darren Shalavi

Sutradara: Wilson Yip

Video
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Audio

Cantonese: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Mandarin: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Cantonese: Dolby Digital 2.0
Mandarin: Dolby Digital 2.0
English: Dolby Digital 2.0

English, English SDH, French, Spanish (less)

Subtitles

English

Discs
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)

Playback
Region A

Cover

Slip Cover

Availability

Ready Stock

Harga

Rp. 319.000

Special Features

As with the Collector's Edition of the first Ip Man, bonus content is spread over the BD which contains the main feature as well as the accompanying DVD.

The BD contains:

• Making Of Ip Man 2 (1080i; 17:37) is an interesting featurette offering interview snippets with director Wilson Yip and many of the principal cast, including Donnie Yen. They discuss how the characters are different in this film and what their intentions were in moving the story of Yip forward to the 1950s.
• Trailers and Teaser

The DVD actually contains the bulk of the supplements, which include:

• Behind the Sets looks, as may be obvious from the title, at various sets utilized within the film. These include:
  The Community (2:54) which includes Yip's initial rooftop studio;
  The Fish Market (2:18) one of the recreations of Hong Kong's market region;
  Chinese Restaurant (2:26) site of the spectacular fight sequence between Yen and Hung on top of the table;
  Big and Small Arena (2:18) where the boxing matches take place.
• Shooting Diary (3:05) is really more of a long form trailer, with no dialogue, just music and onscreen titles (in Chinese translated into English via forced subtitles) and a series of scenes from the film.
• Deleted Scenes (9:07) start out without sound, but don't get concerned. There are a few longer scenes of sequences which are already in the film, including some nice bits with Hung's family, as well as the two long boxing sequences which are a highlight of the film.
• Interviews comprise the longest section of the DVD extras. Director Yip and all of the principal cast are interviewed. All of the cast interviews begin with the onscreen question asking the actor to describe their character, and then the interviews cover a wide range of subjects, including background on Yip, the film itself and various tangentially related subjects like martial arts expertise. The interviews are:
  Wilson Yip (3:04)
  Donnie Yen (3:38)
  Sammo Hung (6:44)
  Huang Xiao Ming (16:54)
  Darren Shahlavi (14:13)
  Ziong Dai Lin (5:56)
  Simon Yam (4:51)
  Fan Siu Wong (3:29)
  To Yue Hong (13:30)
  Kent Cheng (5:36)
  Ashton Chen (5:51)
  Pierre Ngo (6:03)