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. There, he desires to open a school to propagate his art, as well as make his living, but he has difficulty attracting students due to his lack of reputation in the city. One day, a young man named Wong Leung (Huang Xiaoming) appears and promptly challenges Ip to a fight to test him, but is easily defeated in a brief bout. Leung leaves humiliated, only to return with some friends to gang up on him. Ip beats them as well. Stunned and impressed by his skills, Leung and his friends become his first students, bringing more disciples to help the school thrive. Ip later encounters his old friend Chow Ching-chuen (Simon Yam), and his son Kong-yiu while out shopping; Chow had apparently suffered a gunshot wound to the head from the Japanese. As a result, he suffered brain damage that has affected his memories, leaving the pair of them destitute. Ip is saddened by his friend's fate and offers to help Kong-yiu take care of his father, providing him with a job at a newspaper agency run by a friend.
Meanwhile, Leung is caught pasting leaflets promoting Ip's school by some Hung Ga students. One of them challenges Leung to a fight and loses, but his friends take Leung hostage in revenge, hoping to extort money from his master. Ip receives word of the kidnapping and goes to the local wet market as appointed, but the meeting ends in a confrontation with a growing mob of Hung Ga students. Ip and Leung fight their way outside to meet Jin Shanzhao (Fan Siu-Wong) — the martial artist and former bandit in the first film — who comes to their rescue with his own gang. Renowned Hung Ga master, Hung Chun-nam (Sammo Hung), arrives to break up the fight. Ip introduces himself, and Hung informs him that to set up his own school, he must be subjected to a ceremony where he must be challenged by the city's Kung Fu masters. Ip, Leung and Jin are subsequently arrested by Fatso (Kent Cheng) for disturbing the peace, but they each manage to make bail and are released. Hung is then shown to be acting as a collector for the other masters and himself as part of a protection racket, headed by Superintendent Wallace, a corrupt officer in the Hong Kong police.
Ip attends the ceremony and defeats his first challengers, and then strikes a draw with the last challenger, Hung. Ip is allowed to keep running his school on the condition that he pay the monthly protection fees, but he declines. Hung thus has his students loiter in front of the Wing Chun school and harass anyone interested, causing a street brawl between them and Ip's disciples. Ip is thus forced to close up and move the school nearer to home. He soon confronts Hung for his bullying and their respective views on integrity, then nearly engage in another brawl before being interrupted by Hung's family. Ip respectfully leaves, and the next day, Hung invites him to a British boxing match he had helped to set up.
The boxing competition begins with the various martial art schools demonstrating their skills. However, the event's star boxer, Taylor "The Twister" Milos (Darren Shahlavi), looks down on the display and openly insults the students, causing chaos as the masters try to restore order. Hung accepts Twister's challenge to a fight so that he can defend his culture's honour. At the start, Hung has trouble hurting his opponent and begins to weaken from asthma, causing him to get severely battered. Although Ip tries to persuade Hung to stop the fight, the latter remained stubborn until he is finally beaten to death by Twister. News of Hung's death rapidly spread throughout the enraged Chinese populace, causing a scandal that spurs Wallace to hold a press conference (which he did after repeatedly beating Leung Kan with a baton to send a message to all the local newspapers to not "mess with him"), where he states that Hung's death was an accident, and Twister announces that he will accept any challenge from the Chinese out of goodwill. Ip arrives and accepts the challenge.
As Wing-sing goes into labor, Ip begins his fight with Twister; Ip has trouble hurting the boxer as Hung did, and is knocked down several times. After the judges ban kicks in the middle of the bout, Ip takes several more hard blows and is knocked down again. Upon getting up, he quickly pinpoints Twister's weak points, and in a flurry of his own blows (mixed in with several of Hung's techniques), he brutally knocks out his opponent. As the Chinese audience cheers, Wallace is arrested by his superiors, thanks to information provided by Fatso. Ip then gives a speech to the British audience, stating that despite the differences between their peoples, he wishes for everyone to respect one another. Ip goes home and reunites with his family, with Wing-sing having successfully given birth to their second child. A final scene shows Kong-yiu introducing a young boy to Ip, who wishes to study Wing Chun: Bruce Lee. Ip only tells the boy to come back when he is older.
Nota Jase :
Banyak keindahan di dalam cerita ini. Selain daripada mengangkat kisah sebenar Ip Man yang menjadi Sifu Kung Fu Bruce Lee saya sebenarnya lebih tertarik kepada sisi patriotisme yang digarap secara halus dan indah di dalam filem ini. Apabila Sifu Hung hampir di tewaskan oleh juara tinju barat yang amat angkuh "Twister", beliau sempat membicarakan sesuatu kepada Ip Man yang lebih kurang bermaksud seperti ini, untuk urusan urus niaga aku memang boleh bertolak ansur tetapi tidak apabila kung fu cina dihina. Itulah perlambangan kepada kebudayaan cina yang ingin diwacanakan di dalam filem ini dan kata-kata itu jugalah yang menjadi perangsang kepada Ip Man untuk menebus maruah orang cina. Alangkah baiknya jika pembikin filem negara ini boleh mengupas isu sebengini sebaik ini.
Meanwhile, Leung is caught pasting leaflets promoting Ip's school by some Hung Ga students. One of them challenges Leung to a fight and loses, but his friends take Leung hostage in revenge, hoping to extort money from his master. Ip receives word of the kidnapping and goes to the local wet market as appointed, but the meeting ends in a confrontation with a growing mob of Hung Ga students. Ip and Leung fight their way outside to meet Jin Shanzhao (Fan Siu-Wong) — the martial artist and former bandit in the first film — who comes to their rescue with his own gang. Renowned Hung Ga master, Hung Chun-nam (Sammo Hung), arrives to break up the fight. Ip introduces himself, and Hung informs him that to set up his own school, he must be subjected to a ceremony where he must be challenged by the city's Kung Fu masters. Ip, Leung and Jin are subsequently arrested by Fatso (Kent Cheng) for disturbing the peace, but they each manage to make bail and are released. Hung is then shown to be acting as a collector for the other masters and himself as part of a protection racket, headed by Superintendent Wallace, a corrupt officer in the Hong Kong police.
Ip attends the ceremony and defeats his first challengers, and then strikes a draw with the last challenger, Hung. Ip is allowed to keep running his school on the condition that he pay the monthly protection fees, but he declines. Hung thus has his students loiter in front of the Wing Chun school and harass anyone interested, causing a street brawl between them and Ip's disciples. Ip is thus forced to close up and move the school nearer to home. He soon confronts Hung for his bullying and their respective views on integrity, then nearly engage in another brawl before being interrupted by Hung's family. Ip respectfully leaves, and the next day, Hung invites him to a British boxing match he had helped to set up.
The boxing competition begins with the various martial art schools demonstrating their skills. However, the event's star boxer, Taylor "The Twister" Milos (Darren Shahlavi), looks down on the display and openly insults the students, causing chaos as the masters try to restore order. Hung accepts Twister's challenge to a fight so that he can defend his culture's honour. At the start, Hung has trouble hurting his opponent and begins to weaken from asthma, causing him to get severely battered. Although Ip tries to persuade Hung to stop the fight, the latter remained stubborn until he is finally beaten to death by Twister. News of Hung's death rapidly spread throughout the enraged Chinese populace, causing a scandal that spurs Wallace to hold a press conference (which he did after repeatedly beating Leung Kan with a baton to send a message to all the local newspapers to not "mess with him"), where he states that Hung's death was an accident, and Twister announces that he will accept any challenge from the Chinese out of goodwill. Ip arrives and accepts the challenge.
As Wing-sing goes into labor, Ip begins his fight with Twister; Ip has trouble hurting the boxer as Hung did, and is knocked down several times. After the judges ban kicks in the middle of the bout, Ip takes several more hard blows and is knocked down again. Upon getting up, he quickly pinpoints Twister's weak points, and in a flurry of his own blows (mixed in with several of Hung's techniques), he brutally knocks out his opponent. As the Chinese audience cheers, Wallace is arrested by his superiors, thanks to information provided by Fatso. Ip then gives a speech to the British audience, stating that despite the differences between their peoples, he wishes for everyone to respect one another. Ip goes home and reunites with his family, with Wing-sing having successfully given birth to their second child. A final scene shows Kong-yiu introducing a young boy to Ip, who wishes to study Wing Chun: Bruce Lee. Ip only tells the boy to come back when he is older.
Nota Jase :
Banyak keindahan di dalam cerita ini. Selain daripada mengangkat kisah sebenar Ip Man yang menjadi Sifu Kung Fu Bruce Lee saya sebenarnya lebih tertarik kepada sisi patriotisme yang digarap secara halus dan indah di dalam filem ini. Apabila Sifu Hung hampir di tewaskan oleh juara tinju barat yang amat angkuh "Twister", beliau sempat membicarakan sesuatu kepada Ip Man yang lebih kurang bermaksud seperti ini, untuk urusan urus niaga aku memang boleh bertolak ansur tetapi tidak apabila kung fu cina dihina. Itulah perlambangan kepada kebudayaan cina yang ingin diwacanakan di dalam filem ini dan kata-kata itu jugalah yang menjadi perangsang kepada Ip Man untuk menebus maruah orang cina. Alangkah baiknya jika pembikin filem negara ini boleh mengupas isu sebengini sebaik ini.
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