Wing Chun (1994)

Wing Chun, a woman living in a remote village often pillaged by robbers. When Wing Chun finally loses her cool and defeats them, her heroic actions stir up even more trouble in this ... See full summary »

Director:

Woo-Ping Yuen

Writers:

Elsa Tang (as Pik-yin Tang), Wing-Fai Wong

Stars:

Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen, King-Tan Yuen

Cast

Credited cast:
Michelle Yeoh	...	Yim Wing Chun
Donnie Yen	...	Leung Pok To (as Yen Chi Tan)
King-Tan Yuen	...	Abacus Fong
Catherine Yan Hung	...	Charmy (as Catherine Hung)
Waise Lee	...	Wong Hok Chow (as Lee Chi Hung)
Norman Chu	...	Flying Chimpanze (as Chui Siu Keung)
Chui Ah-Fai	...	Flying Monkey
Pei-Pei Cheng	...	Ng Mui
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Yu Bo	...	Scout
Zhi-Hui Chen	...	Southern kung fu master
Liu Hen	...	Squire
Guo Jia-Qing	...	Yim Wing Chun's father
Xian-Quan Kong	...	Squire
Xiao-Zhou Li	...	Bandit leader
Jin Mao-Heng	...	Yim Wing Chow

Storyline

Wing Chun, a woman living in a remote village often pillaged by robbers. When Wing Chun finally loses her cool and defeats them, her heroic actions stir up even more trouble in this male-based society of the time. The climactic battle to the death is a dazzler.

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Plot Keywords:

wing chun | battle | cult film | man fighting woman | hapkido | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Drama

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Release Date:

24 March 1994 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

Wing Chun - Uma Luta Milenar

Filming Locations:

Beijing, China

Company Credits

Production Co:

Peace Film Production Co., Sil-Metropole Organisation, Wo Ping Films Company Limited

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One reviewer mentioned the obvious innuendos, but there are many more than you would expect. In addition to Flying Chimpanzee's "Champion Spear", "To Eat Someone's Tofu" is a Chinese idiom that means to flirt with a female.

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Connections

References Seven Samurai (1954)

User Reviews

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.