Ip Man 2 (2010) Hong Kong

AKA: Yip Man 2: Chung si chuen kei

Genre: Action, Biography, History

Summary:
Continuing from where the first film left off, Wing Chun master Ip Man and his family move to Hong Kong in the early 1950s after their escape from the Japanese. Ip Man decides to open a school to teach Wing Chun and propagate the martial art, as well as make his living.

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Ip Man (2008) Hong Kong

AKA: Yip Man

Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History

Summary:
A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun.

True Legend (2010) Chinese

AKA: Su Qi-Er / The Legend of Beggar Su

Genre: Action, Drama, History

Summary:
Su Qi-Er, a wealthy man living during the Qing Dynasty who loses his fortune and reputation as a result of a conspiracy against him. After being forced out onto the streets, Su dedicates his life to martial arts and reemerges as a patriotic hero known as the "King of Beggars."

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Empire of Silver (2009) Chinese

AKA: Baiyin diguo

Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Romance

Summary:
Based on historical events, a saga of China's 'Wall Street' over a century ago. A young man must decide whether to follow his father's path or find his own when he is obligated to assume the role of heir to a banking empire.

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City of Life and Death (2009) Chinese

AKA: Nanjing! Nanjing!

Genre: Drama, History, War

Summary:
City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed. The film tells the story of several figures, both historical and fictional, including a Chinese soldier, a schoolteacher, a Japanese soldier, a foreign missionary, and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians.

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