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Original Title: 一代宗师 Directed by: Wong Kar-wai Written by: Wong Kar-wai, Zhu Jingzhi, Xu Haofeng Cinematography: Philippe Le Sourd Music by: Shigeru Umebayashi, Nathaniel Méchaly Country: Hong Kong, China Genres: Drama, Action, Biography Duration: 130 min (Asia), 122 (Europe), 108 (America) Release Dates: 8 Jan. 2013 (China), 7 Feb. 2013 (Berlin), 30 Aug. 2013 (USA) Filming Dates: 21 November 2009 – June 2012 Filming Locations: China (Guangzhou, Foshan, Kaiping, Shenyang) Synopsis: With martial arts getting more popular in the Thirties, more people seek to learn them via the professionals at Foshan in Southern China. Some of the experienced masters like to challenge their counterparts and undergoing battles. To have their whole concentration, it is their practice to lock up the venues and no one is allowed to leave during battles. No food and no rest before reaching any results. Ip Man is a young rich man extremely talented in martial arts, but he chooses to keep a low profile. Yet this doesn’t keep him out of these troubles ahead. One day he is trapped in this battleground so he has to use every means in order to get out of there. The masters are amazed by his abilities. Master Kung and his daughter Kung Yi are amongst, and the latter is attracted to this newcomer. A high warlord is assassinated by his own guard Yi Xian Tian. All masters in Foshan vow to take Tian down no matter what. —American Film Market

Tony Leung Yip Man

Zhang Ziyi Gong Er

Chang Chen The Razor

Song Hye-kyo Cheung Wing-sing

Zhao Benshan Ding Lianshan

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The Grandmaster China Trailer

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The Grandmaster IMAX Trailer

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The Grandmaster France Trailer

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The Grandmaster Russia Trailer

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The Grandmaster International Trailer

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The Grandmaster Korea Trailer

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The Grandmaster USA Trailer

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The Grandmaster 3D – Trailer 1

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Making-of

宗师之路: Part 1

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宗师之路: Part 2

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The Grandmaster – Making-of 1

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• Tony Leung Chiu Wai trained four hours a day for a year in preparation for his role as Ip Man.
• The filming took almost 2 years on and off to complete and like other Wong Kar Wai’s movie, the post-production wasn’t completed the day before. It was sent to Chinese censors a few hours before the premiere ceremony.
• The film was selected as the opening movie for February’s Berlin International Film Festival while Wong Kar Wai was the president of the jury the same year.
• ” For her role, Zhang trained under the teacher of kung fu star Jet Li, and said the movements were key to expressing the spirit of the characters. “She (Gong Er) is a combination of almost all the unique features and merits of women of that era,” Zhang said. “In terms of movements, we trained for such a long time because the director hoped when we went inside the world of the characters, we already carried their spirit in our bodies.” “- Reuters
• The film is: “the fruit of eight years of labor […] The concept of the movie hit Wong even before he released his most celebrated work, In The Mood for Love, back in 2000”. – Reuters
• The initial cut lasted for more than four hours, and the director expressed his wish to release the long version on DVD to let the audience see…
• On the first day after its release, the earned 29.8 million yuan ($4.8 million) on its opening day, which is a really great opening for a Wong Kar Wai’s movie.
• “Tony Leung revealed after the premiere that his heart ached the most over many “missing” scenes. Zhang Ziyi said that she thought a scene in which she expressed her inner loneliness was very sad but very powerful would be kept in the film. Her hope finally died when the end credits came up on screen as it was truly removed; however, she understood that with only 2 hours and 10 minutes, Wong Kar-wai indeed had a hard time with the decision. As an actor, she like the audience had no idea what Wong Kar-wai’s completed film would be until the very end.” – Mingpao, wongkarwai.net
• Ziyi said during the press conference in Beijing that this film will mark her last kung fu movie, described the production process as “getting on a pirate ship”.

Nominations: 20th Beijing Student Film Festival, 7th FIRST Youth Film Festival, 29th Golden Rooster Awards, 2013 To Ten Chinese Film Festival, Village Voice Awards (6th)