early career [edit ]
A film buff at an early long time, Yip went to the cinema whenever he could and frequently wrote reviews on the backs of ticket stub. He entered the movie clientele in the 1980s, starting out as a “ gofer “ and working his way up to assistant film director. His directorial debut was 01.00 AM, a three-segment horror collection. He directed two of three parts, one with Veronica Yip as a nurse who sees dead pop stars, and Anita Yuen interviewing a demon. His future effort, Daze Reaper, was a Category III exploitation film, based on a true-crime floor about a prison guard who turns to crime. Next was Mongkok Story, an exploitative report in the vein of Young and Dangerous, and another horror trilogy, Midnight Zone, about urban myths. He besides turned to comedy with Teaching Sucks, about two Hong Kong teachers played by Anthony Wong and Jan Lam.
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In 1998 Wilson co-wrote and directed his biggest cult reach at the clock, Bio Zombie, which was influenced by Dawn of the Dead and takes place in a shop plaza, where a small group of misfits bands together in decree to survive .
Turning point [edit ]
Yip following directed the 1999 crime – play Bullets Over Summer, starring Francis Ng and Louis Koo as two detectives hunting a gang of deadly criminals who have to use a brainsick aged woman ‘s ( Helena Law Lan ) apartment for surveillance. The biggest-budget film of his career up to then, he considers Bullets Over Summer his “ turning point ”. He shared a best-screenplay award at the 2000 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for the film. In 2000 he was picked by Golden Harvest to direct Skyline Cruisers, a big-budget military action film. Yip did not get along with the cast and clashed with the studio apartment ‘s management over creative differences. other films include the science-fiction-action narrative 2002, and the romanticist comedies, Dry Wood Fierce Fire ( with Miriam Yeung and Louis Koo ) and Leaving Me, Loving You ( with Leon Lai and Faye Wong ). In 2004, Yip besides directed his first wuxia dash film, The White Dragon, starring Cecilia Cheung and Francis Ng. Yip besides acts, largely doing small roles. They include a pimp in The Runaway Pistol and a Taoist exorcist in the Pang Brothers ‘ The Eye .
Films with Donnie Yen [edit ]
In 2005, Yip directed his most critically acclaimed movie, SPL: Sha Po Lang. A farinaceous retort to the 1980s style of Hong Kong action cinema, SPL starred Simon Yam and Donnie Yen as Hong Kong police officers trying to pin a crime on an unstoppable gangster, portrayed by Sammo Hung. In 2006, Yip re-teamed with Yen for an adaptation of a Hong Kong manga, Dragon Tiger Gate. In 2007 Yip released Flash Point, another martial-arts crime drama in the like vein as SPL. The film starred Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, and Collin Chou.
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yen and Yip ‘s latest collaboration as actor and conductor, Ip Man, is a semi-biographical bill of Ip Man, the beginning warlike arts overcome ( taiwanese : Sifu ) to teach the taiwanese soldierly art of Wing Chun openly. It besides featured battle stage dancing by Sammo Hung. The film was released in December 2008 and immediately photograph to number one on its opening week in Hong Kong, earning over HK $ 2.8 million in three weeks. Ip Man 2, which is produced by Raymond Wong, picks up on Ip Man ‘s life after his migration to Hong Kong where he took on his most celebrated disciple, Bruce Lee. The film was released 29 April 2010. In 2014, it was announced that Yip and Yen would reunite for a third Ip Man film, to start filming in early 2015 for release late in the year. [ 1 ] The film will be presented in theatres in 3D format for the first time in the franchise. [ 1 ] In 2016, Donnie Yen announced that he and Yip would collaborate once again on a fourth Ip Man film. [ 2 ]
Filmography [edit ]
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actor [edit ]
- Wong gok fung wan (Mongkok Story) (1996)
- Hui zhuan shou shi (Midnight Zone) (1997)
- Huo xing gui ji (Among the Stars) (2000)
- Sui jeuk fun ji (United We Stand and Swim) (2001)
- You Shoot, I Shoot (2001)
- Zouhou qiang (Runaway Pistol) (2002)
- Happy Family (2002)
- Love Undercover (2002)
- The Eye (2002)
- Chuet sai hiu B (Mighty Baby) (2002)
- Obake yashiki (2002)
- Tai yang wu zhi (2003)
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References [edit ]
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