Ip Man 4: The Finale

葉問4 (2019)

Timing: 1:47 (107 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2019-12-19

Country

China, Hong Kong

Production

Golden Harvest Company, Mandarin Motion Pictures Limited, Bullet Films, Shanghai Bona Cultural Media

Genre

Action, Drama, History

Budget

$52 000 000

Revenue

$193 399 923

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Director

Wilson Yip

Actors

Donnie Yen, Wu Yue, Vanness Wu, Scott Adkins, Kent Cheng Jak-Si, Danny Chan Kwok-kwan, Ngo Ka-nin, Chris Collins, Vanda Margraf, Lo Meng
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Scenario

Edmond Wong, Jill Leung Lai-Yin

Producer

Raymond Wong

Operator

Cheng Siu-keung

Composer

Kenji Kawai

Artist

Audition

Editing

Cheung Ka-Fai
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• To demonstrate his skills, the character played by Mark Strange strikes a door. Bruce Lee, played by Danny Chan, remarks that “doors don’t hit back, unlike me.” This episode is a reference to Robert Clouse's martial arts film 'Enter the Dragon' (1973), where Lee himself says the exact same phrase. Furthermore, Strange even visually resembles Robert Wall, to whom Lee addresses the line in 'Enter the Dragon'.
• When the character Chris Collins calls one of the students "Mr. Crisis," it's a reference to the name of the antagonist in the cartoon series "Karate Kid" (1989).
• Chris Collins, who plays a Marine, has repeatedly told stories about the various operations he participated in, the scrapes he got into, and the injuries he sustained during his military service. However, some sources claim that all of this is fabrication, and that Collins served for only six months as a radio operator, without participating in any combat, which contradicts the image he created for himself in the press.
• In terms of roles, characters, and relationships with Ip Man, Master Wan, played by Yu Yue, is very similar to Master Hung, played by Sammo Hung in the action film "Ip Man 2" (Wilson Yip, 2010). Both play a supporting role to Ip Man, both are heads of local associations, the relationship between Ip Man and both of them initially didn't work out, but then improved. Ip Man fought both of them, and both fights ended in a draw, and finally, they both fought the main antagonist in their respective films and were both defeated (the only difference being that Master Hung died, while Master Wan did not).
• The final scene, in which Bruce Lee supposedly appears at Ip Man's funeral to pay his respects, is fictional. Bruce Lee was not told about Ip Man's death.