Showing posts with label Donnie Yen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donnie Yen. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Ip Man III (2015) - Donnie Yen X Max Zhang 6 and a Half Point Pole fight video

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Enjoy this fight scene between Donnie Yen vs Max Zhang fighting with Wing Chun Kuen's 6 and a Half Point Pole in Ip Man 3





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Sunday, March 12, 2017

Ip Man II (2010) - Donnie Yen X Sammo Hung fight video

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Enjoy this fight scene between Donnie Yen as Ip Man representing Wing Chun Kuen and Sammo Hung as Master Wong using Hung Ga!





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Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Happy 121st Birthday Ip Man! Donnie Yen's Ip Man 1 (Full movie)

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In honor of Grandmaster Ip Man's 121st birthday today, I'm posting the full movie of Donnie Yen's Ip Man 1. In Cantonese, no subtitles.

Grandmaster Ip would've been today.

Enjoy!



Ip Man 1 (2008)
Traditional 葉問
Simplified 叶问
 Mandarin Yè Wèn
Cantonese Jip6 Man6


Ip Man is a 2008 Hong Kong semi biographical martial arts film very loosely based on the life of Yip Man, a grandmaster of the martial art Wing Chun and master of Bruce Lee. The film focuses on events in Ip's life that supposedly took place in the city of Foshan during the Sino-Japanese War. The film was directed by Wilson Yip, and stars Donnie Yen as Ip Man, with martial arts choreography by Sammo Hung. The supporting cast includes Simon Yam, Lynn Hung, Lam Ka-tung, Xing Yu and Hiroyuki Ikeuchi.





With English subtitles, although my country is restricted from viewing this video. Posting for the readers who can view it.





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Wednesday, August 06, 2014

Happy 51st Birthday Michelle Yeoh! 生日快樂楊紫瓊! (Butterfly and Sword (1993) 新流星蝴蝶劍 (Full movie))

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Today is the 51st birthday of the only Asian actress named by People Magazine as one of the "35 All-Time Screen Beauties".

Happy Birthday Michelle Yeoh! 生日快樂楊紫瓊!

Posting a movie in her honor!

Enjoy!



Butterfly and Sword (1993)
新流星蝴蝶劍
Mandarin: Xīn Líuxīng Húdié Jiàn
Cantonese: San1 Lau4 Sing1 Wu4 Dip6 Gim3
Cantonese only

Dynamo Michelle Khan (aka Michelle Yeoh) stars as a loyalist who attempts to keep the King's empire from being overthrown by a revolutionary group.




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Sunday, July 27, 2014

Bodyguards and Assassins (2009) (Full Movie)

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Donnie Yen's Dragon (Wu Xia) (武俠) (2011 ) (Full movie)

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Today is the 51st Birthday of Donnie Yen!

Posting a recent movie in his honor that was pretty solid.

Enjoy!



Dragon (Wu Xia) (2011)
(Chinese: 武俠; Pinyin: Wǔ xiá)


The film is set in 1917 in early Republican China at Liu Village on the border of Yunnan. Liu Jin-xi (Yen) is a village craftsman whose quiet life is irrevocably shattered by the arrival of two notorious gangsters in the local general store. When Liu single-handedly saves the shopkeeper's life, he comes under investigation by detective Xu Bai-jiu (Kaneshiro). Convinced that Liu's martial arts mastery belies a hidden history of training by one of the region's vicious clans, Xu doggedly pursues the shy hero-and draws the attention of China's criminal underworld in the process.

Cast:
  • Donnie Yen as Liu Jinxi, who is actually Tang Long, the son of the Master.
  • Takeshi Kaneshiro as Xu Baijiu, a detective versed in physiology and acupuncture. .
  • Tang Wei as Yu, Liu Jinxi's wife.
  • Jimmy Wang as the Master, the leader of the 72 Demons and Tang Long's father.
  • Kara Hui as 13th Madam, the Master's wife.






My review:

Donnie Yen was pretty good acting-wise in this movie. At the beginning, he was very restrained and seemed 'ordinary' until his secret is slowly uncovered. Some nice use of CGI when Kaneshiro was investigating the deaths. The CGI was not overused. I tend to not like a full-blown CGI effects movie which generally has the CGI overshadowing the plot and concentrating on what effects can 'wow!' the viewer. So glad, that was not the case in this movie and its use of CGI. I felt this movie was more Kaneshiro's movie and the CSI process (detective procedural) than it was an action movie. Given the plot, the action was subdued a bit and explodes at the end.

Cool to see Donnie using what appears to be Hung Ga in his fights. Great cameos by oldschool stars, Jimmy Wang Yu (One-Armed Swordsman) and Kara Hui (My Young Auntie, Mad Monkey Kung Fu, The Martial Club). There seems to be a desire by Donnie to showcase some parkour. In a chase scene, Kara Hui is after Donnie and he parkours on some rooftops. Great fight scenes.

Overall a solid movie, and Donnie got to showcase some of his acting chops following his great acting portrayal of Ip Man. Showed some other styles other than the standard kickboxing or Wing Chun Kuen. I recommend this movie.


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Saturday, January 04, 2014

Special ID - GIF Set 3 (Donnie vs Ken Lo)

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Friday, January 03, 2014

Donnie Yen's Special ID - GIF Set 2 (Donnie vs Ken Lo)

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Thursday, January 02, 2014

Donnie Yen's Special ID - GIF Set 1 (Donnie vs Ken Lo)

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Donnie Yen's new movie, Special ID, had him serving as the leading man as well as the Martial Arts Choreographer. There were some good fight scenes. He prefers to make make modern actioners as he loves MMA and would be able to incorporate some MMA into his fights as opposed to period pieces. Flash Point, which he made in 2007, is an awesome showcase of MMA moves. If you didn't see that movie yet, I have links below of GIFs I've made from that movie. 

I've made some animated GIFs highlighting parts of the fight scenes from Special ID. First up, the opening fight between Ken Lo (former bodyguard of Jackie Chan - best remembered fighting Jackie in Drunken Master 2). 

Enjoy this first set with two more GIF sets of this fight scene coming in the next few days. 









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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Happy ThanksGIFing! (and Happy Thanksgiving 2013!)

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Happy Thanksgiving to the readers of this site who celebrate!

May you and your loved ones be thankful for what you have and not lament on what you don't have!
Ok, above I covered "Thanksgiving", but what is this "ThanksGIFing". Well, Underground Forum member FoolKontakt posted "Happy ThanksGIFing !" to me in this thread. I thought that was punny! That pun inspired this post.
I'm going to pick my 8 favorite GIFs out of the 100+ posts with I don't know how many animated GIFs that I've created to date. I would've liked to pick 25 or so, but will stick to 8 so they fit on one page and have a reasonable pageload time instead of all 25 on one page or split across 3 entries. These are in no ranking whatsoever.
Enjoy!
Manong Dan Inosanto flipping the Butterfly Knife (aka Balisong) in the movie Sharky's Machine




For more Balisong GIFs, please check out my Projects Page as making GIFs of Balisong has been an ongoing project:





Donnie Yen with a flawless suplex in the movie Flash Point



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The Spanking
UFC 44:  Randy Couture vs Tito Ortiz


For the other GIFs of highlights from that famous fight - Randy Couture vs Tito Ortiz, please check out:




Flying Omoplata and Trapping from the movie Pacific Rim




More of the animated GIF's I made from Pacific Rim can be found here:
WEF 7:  Rich Crunkilton (black) vs Ray Totorico



Rich Crunkilton is one of my favorite MMA fighters. Frank Mir has called him a "takedown specialist." As if by magic, Rich almost immediatedly after touching Totorico, Ray went for a ride.

For more of Rich Crunkilton's Takedown GIFs I made, you can find them here:




Benny "The Jet" Urquidez vs Yuen Biao from the movie Dragons Forever



Benny is called "The Jet" for a reason!

The rest of the GIFs are located below:




Brandon Lee vs Professor Al Leong in the movie Rapid Fire



I love the trapping in this fight.

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Bruce Lee side kicks Bob Wall from the classic Enter the Dragon



More GIFs from Enter the Dragon:




In a year's time, I would've made more GIFs. I'm such a GIF-making geek! I will post then some of my faves from the year.

In the meantime, please check out the link before for all my entries with animated GIFs:



Happy ThanksGIFing 2013!



 EDIT 11/27/2014:  My 2014 edition: 


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Friday, November 08, 2013

I met Donnie Yen at the 4th Annual New York Chinese Film Festival Nov7, 2013

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Donnie Yen and Hostess of 4th Annual NY Chinese Film Festival
Sorry for the crappy pic via my phone camera - I was holding the phone in my left hand and my crappy video camera in my right hand and couldn't focus properly.

It is said that accumulating life experiences is more important than accumulating money. After all, money buys objects and objects are lifeless. But experiences will live on. You grow and learn with experiences. It allows one to be a storyteller - to let others know of the wonderful experience, and thereby, story to tell them.  Everyone loves a good story right?

Yesterday I had an experience that was pretty much a "once-in-a-lifetime experience" for me that I would like to relate to you.  I don't get to go out much. My life is the life of a 'Family Man'. I go to work and then go home to my wife and kids. I help with the dishes, check my children's homework and help/teach them what may be a stumbling block for them. On the weekends I am the 'Chauffeur', driving my kids to their various enrichment activities as well as do the laundry, go to Costco and groceries shopping. Now that my Life is put into perspective, I will share my Experience. 

My friend on Facebook, Rosemary, alerted me to the 4th Annual New York Chinese Film Festival. One of the Guests of Honor was Donnie Yen, arguably one of the top, if not THE top, Asian movie star currently. She kept nagging me to go. As she lives in Memphis, if circumstances permitted, she would've attended!

There were a few factors contributing on my decision to go or not:

  • Would Donnie Yen be there as advertised? If so, would it be the Opening Ceremony only? Tickets were going for $100 each... a bit steep for me and my situation
  • Would he be there during the showing of Ip Man 1 and/or his new movie, Special ID (aka Special Identity)?
  • Would my boss be OK with me taking the day off?
  • Would tickets still be available?
Rosemary convinced me despite Donnie being there or not, at least go to the movies and have a good time watching them. She agreed Opening Night was too much. 
I called the theater Monday to find out tickets availability for Thursday's showings. My conversation with the young woman that answered went as follows:


 Me:  "Hi, are there tickets still available for Thursday's showing of Special ID at 2pm?"
Young Woman (YW):  "Yes there is."
Me:  "How much are tickets?" (expecting it to be near-exorbitant like Opening Night)
YW:  "$14.50."
Me:  (Whew!) "Are there tickets also for Ip Man at 11am?"
YW:  (about 10 seconds of silence) "You mean Eye Pee Man?"
Me:  (Mental facepalm and sigh) "Why yes, Eye Pee Man."
YW:  "Yes and the price is $8 only because it's the matinee showing."
Me: "Thank you."

 LOL at Eye Pee Man! I wanted to go to the theater immediately and Chain Punch her in the mouth until she could say "Ip Man"!


 So I left work and walked over to the theater. It was a building that housed 25 theaters! 6 floors... an Applebee's restaurant as well as an arcade were on the lower levels and the theaters above. Bought the tickets for myself and my training partner J. I inquired about Donnie Yen's appearance or not. They didn't know but said there was a schedule up front. Went to the front to check and saw this:





WOOHOO! I didn't know that there would be a Q&A session, not One but Two! I was almost on Cloud Nine! I expected he was only going to be at the Opening Ceremony and resigned to the fact I would not be able to meet him. This was incredible! Yes, can you tell I don't get out much? I live the life of a Family Man and most of my time is spent on my family. We don't go to the movies due to the exorbitant ticket prices in NYC.

 I was weighing the idea of just going to see Special ID and not both Ip Man and Special ID. Glad I went to Ip Man since Donnie didn't stay for the Q&A after Special ID. 

 Come Thursday, both J. and I were at the theater expecting a long line. Slight disappointment as part of the line was for Thor 2! There wete no long lines. They let us into the theater at 10:30 as it started drizzling. 

 I already watched Ip Man 1 at home on DVD, so it was an awesome viewing on the big screen. There were maybe 25 people or so in the audience. When the movie was nearing its conclusion, there was a sudden influx of people, mostly the Journalists. The Hostess came in and announced the arrival of Donnie Yen!






About six or seven people asked Q's and I was going to be eighth and they ended it. I made the mistake of not sitting in the front row!!!  Lesson learned! Not that I would probably be able to go to another one of these. Learned plenty of lessons during this one.

*SIGH* story of my life … almost-won, wannbe, always-the-bridesmaid-never-the-bride (I guess that should be groomsman/groom for me LOL)
 

A few answers I remembered (hopefully correctly):
  • He said he had a lot of obstacles in making Special ID and he's not happy about it (think he meant he was not happy with how the film turned out as well as his experience making it) but he assured us that the action is very good.
  • He has been in the industry for 31 years!
  • He said he is a martial artist his whole life but he is a professional filmmaker. Looking to expand his range.
  • He has some nagging injuries. Doctor advised him to take it easy.
  • His most successful movie is Ip Man which forced him to make more period pieces.
  • However, he prefers the modern action movies like SPL (aka Sha Po Lang aka Kill Zone) and Flash Point).
  • He likes the MMA style. 
  • His favorite project by far is the upcoming Monkey King (Jan 31, 2014)
  • If you have questions after watching Special ID, contact me via my site.

No real chance for autographs although he signed one on his way out. I wanted a pic with him but he was leaving being escorted out. He did stop and about to take a picture with me when a woman intercepted me (she Jeet me! LOL at her Interception and at my Jeet Kune Do geek humor!) and his attention focused on her as it sounded like she was proposing a collaboration/project with him.

I was one foot away from him and asked my friend Rosemary’s question:
Q:  "When will Hollywood be ready for an Asian leading man?" 
A:  "Hopefully soon." 

Although I was supposed to frame the Q this way:  “This question is from one of your superfans… Rosemary, a fangirl from Memphis… “ - I got to ask one question and he answered and almost took a picture with me. 



Donnie Yen with a picture-perfect Suplex in Flash Point
More animated GIF's here:  http://www.stickgrappler.net/2013/07/flash-point-gif-set-3.html


 Donnie Yen, sir, if you are reading this, please know that you have a superfangirl by the name of Rosemary living in Memphis, Tennesee as well as a fan in me. I'm going to be making many more animated GIFs of you from your movies soon!

 Sir, continued success in Asia as well as the rest of the world! And regarding Hollywood (and a reply to my email) ...

 "Hopefully soon."





I also made some GIF sets from Special ID:





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This post humbly dedicated to Donnie Yen and Rosemary!

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Donnie Yen vs Bruce Lee 《武之夢 A Warrior's Dream》

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Flash Point GIF Set 3

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Before I present the 3rd set of Flash Point GIF's, in case you missed the previous 2 entries in this series, please check out:





Alrighty then, without further ado, here's today's Flash Point GIF set:




"I'll be safe if I use a table to shield me from Donnie Yen!"
NOT!!




Donnie channeling Anderson Silva in his fight vs Rich Franklin!




Ali ain't the only one with the moves!




Awesome Suplex! OUCHY!





Don't let a mad Donnie sneak up on you or this may happen! 





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