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THE GRANDMASTER Trailer

The Hong Kong cut of Wong Kar-wai's newest movie runs 130 minutes. The original title is The Grandmasters. This "international" version is 115 minutes and only drops the "s" at the end of the title.

I have an import Blu-ray on its way so that I can watch the intended edit first.

This feels like the good old days, when Harvey Weinstein was re-editing and re-titling Asian martial arts movies for no real good reason, not to mention putting extremely didactic english voiceover on top of the trailer. This newest telling of the Ip Man story starring Tony Leung hits US cinemas on 23 August.

The Grandmasters: First Trailer

Twitchfilm has just posted the trailer for Wong Kar Wai's 5 years in the making Ip Man movie, The Grandmasters. Starring Tony Leung (In the Mood for Love) and Zhang Ziyi, and featuring Yuen Woo Ping fight choreography, it tells the story of wing chun kung fu pioneer Ip Man. There have been two separate Ip Man movie franchises launched in recent years, but this could be the greatest one of them all.

The movie hits China on 18 December.

After watching the trailer four times, I've embedded it here: