Ip Man: Kung Fu Master

Ip Man: Kung Fu Master is a 2019 Chinese martial arts film co-written and directed by Li Liming and starring Dennis To as Ip Man. It is To's third portrayal of the Hong Kong martial artist, after The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010) and Kung Fu League (2018). The film depicts Ip Man's stint as a police officer in Guangzhou before the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949. The film did not get a theatrical release in China, but instead it was released digitally via streaming on Youku.

Cast

 * Dennis To as Ip Man
 * Yuan Li Ruoxin as Qing Chuan
 * Tong Xiaohu as Director Yuan
 * Yue Dongfeng as Qiao Wu
 * Chang Qinyuan as Cheung Wing-sing
 * Zhao Xiaoguang as Sasaki-Zuo
 * Ren Yu as Tokugawa
 * Li Rizhu as Ribby
 * Michael Wong as San Ye

Release
Ip Man was released in China digitally exclusively on Youku on 23 December 2019. The film was given a limited release in the United States on 11 December 2020.

The film will be available On Demand via Apple TV, Prime Video, Google Play, FandangoNOW, DirecTV, and more on March 9 throughout the United States.

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregated score of 36% based on 11 critic reviews.

Leslie Felperin of The Guardian rated it two out of five stars and wrote "the film takes itself a bit too seriously and reshuffles the deck of plot tropes instead of inventing its own ideas..."

Film Hound Magazine criticized Li's poor storytelling by stating "...perhaps not a great structural storyteller or indeed a fluid one, as evidenced by the amount of scenes that end on a fade to black..." overall giving the film three out of five stars.