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Wing Chun (film)

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261:. This arouses the curiosity of Flying Chimpanzee, who comes to avenge his brother. Impressed with Wing-Chun's fighting skills, he kidnaps Charmy and uses her to bait Wing-chun and Pok-to to the bandit's mountain fortress and surrounds them. He then challenges Wing-chun to a fight, on the conditions that she, Pok-to and Charmy will be allowed to leave safely if she can successfully pull out a spear impaled into a wall within three rounds of fighting, but if she fails she will have to become his woman. Wing-chun manages to win the challenge through tactics, but is unable to really defeat Flying Chimpanzee and gets injured by the latter's formidable "cotton belly" in the process. When Flying Chimpanzee demands a rematch in three days, she seeks help from her master Abbess 288:" is the key to defeat Flying Chimpanzee's "cotton belly". Using this new-found knowledge, Wing-chun returns to fight Flying Chimpanzee again and soundly defeats the bandit boss in a final showdown, forcing him to submit to her superiority. With the bandit problem gone, Wing-chun marries Pok-to in a wedding celebrated by the whole village. 245:
to the chagrin of her father. She is the only person out of all the villagers who will stand up to the local bandits, led by two nefarious bandit brothers nicknamed the "Flying Chimpanzee" and "Flying Monkey". One day, a young and beautiful widow named Charmy comes to town, catching the eyes of the
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in order to protect Wing-chun from local bullies, arrives in town returning fresh from years of training to claim her hand in marriage. He at first mistakes Charmy (who is enamored with the handsome stranger) for Wing-chun and is disappointed that his "fiancée" is now a flirtatious saleswoman, and
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mistakes the masculine-dressing Wing-chun as a rival suitor. Wing-chun remains silent about the misunderstanding due to concern that Pok-To will not accept her current unfeminine, warrior persona.
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disguise, and tells her that he doesn't mind that she is not a traditional woman. She agrees to marry him, and accidentally realizes (when Pok-to unintentionally punches the
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shop in a mountain village with her father, sister and aunt. After local bullies tried to forcefully marry her during her youth, she trained to become a talented
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rated it 7/10 stars and wrote that the lack of actual Wing Chun fighting could disappointing to some fans, but the action and comedy make up for it.
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predatory Flying Monkey. Wing-chun rescues the hapless widow and gives her a job in her family shop, earning the enmity of Flying Monkey.
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called it a "fun, period martial arts film, unique in its stylistic approach to both violence and sexual politics". J. Doyle Wallis of
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Wing-chun later injures the Flying Monkey in a night duel, hitting him with a fireball and rendering him permanently
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rated it 4/5 stars and wrote that what the film lacks in authenticity, it makes up for in "dazzling fight scenes".
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One year later, The Epic Action Collection DVD was released on 26 December 2005, a 4-disc set including
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practitioner to fend off bad men lusting after her beauty, but her new prowess ends up scaring away any
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Cui Ya-hui (credited as Chui Ah-fai) as Flying Monkey (飛天猴子), deputy leader of the local bandits and a
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Meanwhile, Wing-chun's childhood sweetheart Pok-to, who previously went away to learn
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called it "a silly comedy with kung fu" that "knows what it is". Chris Gould of
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Guang Dong Tung Ah released it on DVD in the United States on 5 February 2002.
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Catherine Hung as Charmy (萬艷娘), an attractive widow and newcomer to the village
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1994 Hong Kong martial arts action drama film by Yuen Woo-ping
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Yuen Woo-ping
Michelle Yeoh
Donnie Yen
Waise Lee
Cheng Pei-pei
Chinese
Hong Kong
martial arts film
Yuen Woo-ping
Michelle Yeoh
Donnie Yen
Waise Lee
Cheng Pei-pei
Wing-chun
tofu
kung fu
suitors
impotent
Ng Mui
Buddhist nun
her style of kung fu
tomboy
mosquito net
inch strike
Michelle Yeoh
Yim Wing-chun
Donnie Yen
Kingdom Yuen
Waise Lee

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