Product Details

• Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen
• Directors: Woo-ping Yuen
• Format: Dolby, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Red Sun RSP
• DVD Release Date: May 4, 2009
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EE3FUY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,119 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Description: Yim Wing Chun (Michelle Yeoh) is locally renowned for her fierce kung fu. Scholar Wong Hok Chow (Waise Lee) comes to town for Beach Festival Day; concerned about protecting his assets from bandits, he decides the best way to secure the services of Yim Wing Chun as a bodyguard is to marry her. Wing Chun?s aunt, known as Abacus Fong, takes a liking to Scholar Wong. On Festival Day, Charmy comes to town looking for medicine for her sick husband; the bandits attack, see the beauty of Charmy and decide to kidnap her for their 2nd Fortress Lord. Later, Leung Pok To (Donnie Yen) comes to town looking for his long-ago fiancee Wing Chun; also looking for Wing Chun is 2nd Fortress Lord?s defender, known as Flying Chimpanzee. Region Code: All Format: NTSC Running Time: 95 min. Languages: English dubbed Subtitles: English, Mandarin, Cantonese Aspect Ratio: 4:3

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good movie, great fun, Michelle Yeoh, enough said., June 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Wing Chun (DVD)

This is a nice movie even for casual fans of martial arts movies and more serious fans should definitely grab it. It is a period piece, but i feel that it is rather far from being a costume drama. For some excellent Chinese/HK drama, go check out "Raise the Red Lantern" or even some of John Woo's earlier work like "Last Hurrah For Chivalry" (John Woo with swords!). That said, this is an EXCELLENT action flick, fast and humorous with a plot significantly stronger than most Jackie Chan movies. I love the tofu fight scene and although some of the fight scenes verge on the fantastic (i.e. "The Executioners") and are clearly enhanced with cutscenes and camera trickery, the vast majority is good old single-shot martial arts mastery. Michelle Yeoh rocks hard and is finally allowed to look cute at the end of the film (her looking like a man is a running gag most of the way through) but the actress who plays the young widow is just plain beautiful. As noted above, the subtitles are pretty strange. There are 3 soundtracks on this disc, English, Cantonese and Mandarin and while I usually avoid dubs like the plague the subtitles on this film are so horribly done that I prefer the dubs by far. There were several times that people onscreen were laughing at a joke that was just plain nonexistant in the subtitles...it's like they let Babelfish handle the sub translation. Just stick with the english dub and you'll be in for a funny, better-than-average kung-fu experience.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An action movie that women will love, May 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Wing Chun [VHS] (VHS Tape)

For those of you who still don't know who Michelle Yeoh is, this is THE movie to be introduced to her.

For those of you who thrilled at watching Yeoh in such movies as "Tomorrow Never Dies" (with Pierce Brosnan as James Bond), "Supercop" (with Jacky Chan) and "Tai Chi Master" (with Jet Li), this is THE action movie where she is the star rather than a man's sidekick.

Having said that, WING CHUN is more than a star vehicle for this former Miss Malaysia turned Action Woman, with an ensemble who have charms of their own even if their names are not as well known; and more than just kung fu fighting.

Rather, this is a surprisingly sweet (and innocent) "gender-bending" "period piece" action-comedy out of Hong Kong. Marvel at such as "the fight over tofu" and -- of course -- the climactic showdown between Wing Chun (Yeoh) and "Flying Chimpanzee" but also delight in the camaraderie and charm evident in the scenes featuring Wing Chun, Aunty Abacus and Charmy, the Tofu Princess!

A caveat: Even though it has plenty of action, I can't help but wonder whether some men would be unimpressed by this movie (which actually has quantitatively more as well as qualitatively wittier dialogue than most movies of its ilk!). On the other hand, I think that women (even those who don't normally like Hong Kong action movies) will find plenty to LOVE about WING CHUN (the character but also the movie).

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Half-a-loaf of Wingchun!, January 9, 2006

By 

Rene Ritchie "author, Legends of Wingchun" (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Wing Chun (DVD)

As a pure Kung Fu movie, if you enjoy the more comedic, wire-fu style, Yuen Woo-Ping (choreographer of the Matrix) delivers. Both Donnie Yen (a trained film fighter who plays Leung Bok-Cho) and Michelle Yeoh (not a trained fighter but a dancer who's consistently given great action on screen, who plays Yim Wing-Chun) personify their legendary characters with charm, grace, and ferocious martial intent.

If you're looking for a Wing Chun movie that showcases the actual Wing Chun style, however, you're better served by Sammo Hung's Prodigal Sons and Warriors Two. This movie uses the characters and style mostly in name only, with a story drawn, but far removed from, any of the traditional versions, and a style far more high flying and stunt based.

Still, I can think of no fan or exponent who wouldn't thrill just a little to see the beautiful landscapes and settings, and see the characters brought to life, and imagine what it might have been like in the days of legend.