Wing Chun

Michelle Yeoh is Yim Wing Chun (Wing Chun), and she has unmatched fighting skills in her village. A well-to-do relative runs a Soya Bean shop, and during a local festival, a woman named Charmy has brought her sick husband to the village for medical aid. Bandits then appear and Wing Chun drives them off after the local male fighters fail miserably, and she also rescues Charmy. Charmy's husband dies and so she tries to sell herself to pay for the cost of the funeral. Wing Chun (with the help of her relative) gives Charmy enough money to bury her husband and in exchange Charmy agrees to become an employee of the Soya Bean shop. Charmy dresses in clothes formally worn by Wing Chun, as Wing Chun used to work for the Soya Bean shop. Sometime later, another skilled warrior, Leung Pok To (Donnie Yen), has come to seek Wing Chun, since they were going to get married. He finds the Soya Bean shop and mistakes Charmy for Wing Chun, because it has been a long time since he has actually seen Wing Chun. In the evening, one of the bandit leaders, Flying Monkey, returns to the village to attack Wing Chun (Charmy), and Leung Pok To saves her, and Charmy is greatful. However, the next day, when Charmy is alone with Leung Pok To attempting to express gratitude, he is feels something is not quite correct. Sometime later, the real Wing Chun goes to meet Flying Monkey outside the village and defeats him easily using a non-traditional method. Flying Monkey's master, Flying Chimpanzee, learns of the defeat, then seeks Wing Chun and challenges her. After a consultation with Wing Chun's master, Wing Chun and Leung Pok To fully reconcile their differences and travel to the bandits' hideout together with the intent to get married after the conflict. After a long battle, Flying Chimpanzee is subdued, and Leung Pok To and Wing Chun get married. Note-there are several misspellings with the subtitles, and for short periods, the image quality colors fade. Despite these cosmetic flaws, this is a well made "wire fu" movie directed by Yuen Woo Ping in 1994. There is a fighting style called "Wing Chun", but this film has NOTHING to do with that.

Very good early KungFu movie with now, superstars Donnie Yen, and Michelle Yoeh. Like all the old-time KungFu movies there is a massive amount of wire-work and fantastical stunt work, which I generally don't like. But here, I am very OK with it. The most redeeming thing for me, is that there is a whole lot of sexy, flirty, cheeky-ness that is very well done. On some level, it sort of pretends to be a little historical, but the overall core of the movie does track loosely with one of the 'official' versions of the earliest origin of Wing-Chun. {BTW, an even better, and probably more historically accurate movie about the origin of Wing-Chun is the movie "Kung Fu Wing Chun" which is incredibly entertaining with an amazingly attractive female star who was killed by her super-rich husband in a bizzare 3-way romance-based murder/suicide just a few years after it came out}

This is a wonderful light hearted movie with Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen. This movie plays off the legend that Wing Chun was taught a type of Kung Fu which was later named after her. The legend has it that she was being forced to marry a man she didn't want to so she ran away and learnt Kung fu from a Shaolin nun. The movie has a lot of comedy and some nice fight action. In the movie no one actually uses the Wing Chun style of fighting though. It also makes fun of the roles of women and men. This Donnie Yen in this movie is nothing like his current films and it's a huge change if all you have seen are his current movies!. The plot is kept interesting with the little twist and turns and constant misunderstandings. I wont give away much of the movie as you should just see it unbiased. I will say if you are used to a fast paced, action packed Kung fu movie this is not for you! This is a cute movie which is basically a love story (or two!) with some fun action thrown in. Warning this movie has English Subtitles so if you do not like that this will not be for you.

This is a great comedy and I have seen it several times since I purchased it. Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen are great. The only problem I have with it is when I put no captions at the start of the dvd it still puts them in there. I have tried several times to make sure I input none on the captions, but it is still there, but outside of that this is a good movie for most of the family. I highly recommend it.

I saw this movie (once by accident, the second time on purpose) while visiting China years ago, and then bought the DVD when it became available. The second time was for the "did they *really* do that?" evaluation. One might call this a slyly-humorous, feminist, *tofu*, kung-fu flick, probably the only member of that category in existence. It certainly offers some good fight scenes, including a fight standing on horses running through flaming trees, and other on a spear thrust into a wall. But, truly unique is the amazing battle in which Michelle defends a big block of tofu from attack by the local tough guy. This scene must be seen to be disbelieved. In China, the subtitles used "Miss soya bean curd", which has changed in the DVD to the less evocative "Tofu princess". Some other strange translations disappeared as well, alas, but still, highly-recommended.

I never heard of it until today. In 1994, this one got past me - along with most martial arts films of the 90's. I take it because they were not available in the US due to the 80's ninja movies messing the market up. This film was OK with the main women looking cute. However, I was not crazy about the type of martial arts that this film had, which is what you see in films from the 2000's on - too much fake stuff. The story was a little hard to follow and it was more of a comedy than a true martial arts film to me. Plus, it has implied rainbow activity like Yeoh's Oscar winning "Everything, everywhere, all at once." So, clearly that theme was not her first time going there. Overall it is better as a movie than it is as a martial arts film, but it did have more martial arts than most 90's martial arts films. If you don't get what I am saying, then that about sums up the film.

I actually first watched this film late-night on TNT... I was blown away! Even watching such great theatrical artists like Jackie Chan and Jet Li... I was still amazed! The fight scenes are way over the top (if you are used to Hong Kong cinema, you'll feel right at home), but Yeoh's sheer flexibility and grace is awesome to watch as she fights with swords, sticks, and anything else handy. Admittingly the English dubbing wasn't great (The voices don't seem to match the actors too well in some places and they sound a little strange at times), but the action more than makes up for it! The story is almost comical, as Wing Chun's aunt constantly goads her father into stress-attacks, Badgers Wing Chun about her fighting ways and brings haggling to new levels in her business. Also, over half the town (including Wing Chun's childhood friend who returns from his travels) think Wing Chun is a man. There is a whole lot more going on here, so the best thing to do is just sit back and enjoy a killer martial arts flick!

This is a first class Hong Kong Kung Fu Comedy (sorry the Fu doesn't fit the alliteration). Wing Chun is the name of Michelle Yeoh's character, and yes, she has a Wing Chun training tree (it looks a lot like an irregular coat rack, but that's what they use). This is probably Donnie Yen's funniest appearance. It is a Wuxia romantic comedy, the structure of which isn't far off from the All's Well, Ends Well franchise. At any rate, everyone gets married in the end and the bad guys aren't just thwarted, they happily call Wing Chun their mommy at the end. It's a ton of fun. Lots of good (but not excessive) wire-fu. Great fight scenes.

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Point de soucis, très bon produit

arrivato in anticipo e tutto nella norma, perfino arrivato prima del prestabilito..Grande

Why? Apart from the fact that it stars Michelle Yeoh, it's an absolute delight from start to finish. Wing Chun,played by Yeoh, is the somewhat androgynous protector of a village from a gang of thugs and bullies. She runs a tofu shop with her vivacious and avaricious aunt and befriends and protects a young widow whom its seems every male in the village lusts after uncontrollably. The aunt lusts after the rich, greedy local scholar. A visiting martial artist appears in search of his childhood sweetheart, mistaking Yeoh for a man and the widow for his sweetheart. At one point Yeoh's own interest in the widow appears somewhat ambiguous. Cue a romantic comedy of errors plus lots of fighting. It's really a rather sweet film with Yeoh displaying a shy humour and an emotional vulnerability which contrasts with her bravura displays of fighting skills. (The rest of the cast are all fine too.) Despite the fact that at one point Yeoh deliberately roasts a bady guy's genitals, it isn't a violent film, although it doesn't stint on the action either -the methodical demolition of a chauvinist thug while maintaining the integrity of a large plate of tofu is a particular highlight. Wing Chun (the movie) will leave you with a smile on your face, laughter in your throat, and, if you aren't already, a big fan of Michelle Yeoh. You'll have to excuse me now, it's fourteen hours since I first watched this movie and I want to see it again.