The Grandmaster

The Grandmaster Official Trailer #2 (2013) - Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang Movie HD
The Grandmaster is about 50% Kung Fu fighting, 10% cryptic pronouncements and maybe 2% history of mid 20th century China. The rest of it is ominous scenes. So, not the greatest movie in the world, but very impressive photography.  It's kind of weird, the movie is flowing through dark rooms full of shady characters making profound / confusing statements and occasionally attacking, and you're going along with it, wholly immersed in this gangster milieu and then, out of the blue, they dump some real world stuff on you, like "and then the Japanese invaded China". A little disconcerting.

I've never seen such attention paid to lighting a cigarette. There is a bit of a story, but you kind of have to drag it out of the cryptic sayings and beat into it some semblance of coherency, and it's not much of a story anyway, or maybe I'm not willing to work that hard to extract it all. But maybe that wasn't the point. The one thing to take away is that there was a man in China by the name of Ip Man who was Bruce Lee's teacher.

P.S. Foshan, a focal point for much of the story, is just about 50 miles inland from Hong Kong, still on the same bay.