Wing Chun (1994)
Director - Yuen Wo Ping
DVD Released by : Tai Seng
Player reviewed with : Sony S3000
Receiver reviewed with : Sony 925
Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Filmogrophies and Bios
Cantonese, Mandarin and English Language Tracks
English Subtitles
Trailers
Running Time : 93 mins

WING CHUN is a fun movie. If you are a Michelle Yeoh fan you should really pick this up. Typical of the DVD's that Tai Seng re-mastered, the DVD is definitely a keeper. I wish they could have kept this up with other movies instead of just distributing the imports. When released there was a bad batch that caused some problems on some players but my DVD has always played properly. This has since been corrected and you will get a good disc if you bought one today. That is, if you can find one. It is getting more and more difficult to find this title.

WING CHUN features Michelle Yeoh as the main character, Yim Wing Chun. This movie is part comedy, part romance, and all action. Wing Chun is the best martial artist in town and she is always tested by local bandits. During one challenge, she offers to admit defeat if a plate of tofu can be knocked of a table. Michelle does some incredible moves to keep the tofu from being knocked over. The challenger leaves defeated. When a young widow comes to town and needs money to bury her husband, Wing Chun and her aunt offer to take her in and they give her a job in their Tofu store. The widow is given a makeover and she becomes a Tofu beauty and the men go wild, trying to buy tofu from her. Wing Chun's aunt, is in love with a scholar but he only has eyes for the new young widow. Wing Chun's childhood sweatheart comes to town (Donnie Yen) and mistakes Wing Chun for a man because of the way she dresses. He mistakes the widow for Wing Chun. A bandit tries to kidnap the widow but is fought off. He even gets his manhood burned off by Wing Chun in one battle. This causes the head bandit to seek out Wing Chun for a challenge.

Michelle Yeoh is simply amazing in this movie. This is higly reccamended if you are a fan of her movies. If some of the fight scenes look familar, it's because this movie is directed by Yuen Woo Ping. The choreography is excellent. WING CHUN is a tame movie compared to some others. Nobody gets killed even though there is a lot of fighting. The main bad guy is even comical at times. You will find yourself watching thismovie more than once.
The picture quality is very good and I didn't notice anything distracting. There were very few times were the color seemed a little off but that was rare and it wasn't too noticeable. The subtitles are also very easy to read.

The sound is supposed to be stereo but it only came from the center channel speaker. I watched the movie in Cantonese with the English Subs. There were time when the music overpowered the dialogue but this was only noticeable twice during the movie. I should have tweaked the receiver to see if I could equalize it a bit but I didn't bother because it wasn't that bad.

The trailers are always great to watch. There are the trailers for Heroic Trio, The Executioners, Bride With White hair and two others. The filmogrraphies are nice to have on there and they are interesting to read whether you are new to the genre or not.

If you like Michelle Yeoh and a lot of great fight scenes, this is definitely a great one to get.