Ip Man (2013) s01e01 Episode Script

Guns, spears, arrows and shields What purpose do they serve? - Lao She Escort agency standards, sabers, horses Street wisdom and gangland jargons Loyalty and honour They became things of the past overnight What we face today are trains, guns Trades and terror It was the year 1921, in Canton That year, southern warlords couldn't contain themselves anymore Round One, Bloodshed in Canton The convention's in Canton this time Next time it will be held in Beiping Whatever Let's put it on the table Once we get there Who will be president? Lt'll be decided by combat The fate of a nation to be hinged on a combat? 1921, Canton Down with warlords Down with the Beiyang Government North-South Reconciliation Canton Martial Arts Arena 1921, the Southern Martial Arts Convention It's a show of might Where all stops were pulled and every weapon came to the fore The 82 martial arts schools of the Southern Styles fought to be number one in Canton Five Northern Tigers Took Canton Southern Traitors on Their Knees They are undermining the revolution Foshan Hero Mentor Bravo Mentor lp Man, you can't fight him Wing-shing Just a country bumpkin let him get his beating Can't you see he's vomiting blood? Lp Man Ip Man He'll get killed He asked for it 10 Years Ago Foshan, the town of Sangyuan Fu Hung-mo is here, Fu Hung-mo is coming The head or the queue The head or the queue save your life What is going on? The revolutionaries are coming Fu Hung-mo is coming Fu Hung-mo? Hung-mo, as in red hair? The head or the queue Fu Hung-mo has wiped out villages nearby Run Fu Hung-mo? Oh no! Let's run for our lives, run! Lp Man, run Fu Hung-mo? The head or the queue Brother Ching-shan Lam Ching-shan, what are you doing? Folks, as Mr Sun Yat-sen says Global advancement is unstoppable Go against it to our demise I may be just a commoner of Foshan I too have to stand up and urge you to join the revolution Don't be left behind Don't be left behind Cut your queue if you want to cross the bridge Cut your queue What nonsense! Lam Ching-shan, you were my student How can you do such a treacherous thing? Sir, the emperor inside Forbidden City is your sire But he is not my sire What nonsense! Let me kill you the traitor We are in a new era Not just my queue Your queue should be cut as well I dare you! Fu Hung-mo is here Get him No! Don't cut my queue Cut it off Brother Ching-shan, why the queue should be cut off? It means revolution No, don't cut it Cut it off With the queue cut revolution is accomplished? Don't cut my queue You don't understand Give way Teacher No don't cut it The head or the queue The head or the queue Teacher My queue Freeze! Hand over your money Fu Hung-mo is coming Hand it over Bravo Good, go change With you as coach Even ten Fu Hung-mos wouldn't be a big deal Master Your Hard Gate Fist routine is awesome indeed Your moves just now were quintessential Hard Gate Fist But you seemed to have pulled the punch in the Drunken Conqueror move Master, it's too vicious If I didn't pull the punch my opponent would be crippled I am saving it for Fu Hung-mo I see, that's wonderful Master, Lady, men with guns patrol outside the manor Here inside the manor My martial arts guarantee the safety not just of Master and Lady But every young and old of the lp family Rest assured of that Dad Come on From today on You two take turn guarding Master and Lady's room 24 hours a day You guard Young Master's room, get it? Yes It is said that the heads Fu Hung-mo chopped off could make a hill If you confront him directly we'll be at a disadvantage Maybe we should negotiate with him With Master Yim here, we will be fine Dad, Mom, why do people refuse to cut their queues off? Because our body and our hair were from our parents Taking care of it demonstrates our filial piety Cutting the queue off goes against filial piety Hence it can't be cut Dad, our fingernails were from our parents too, but why do we cut them? Dad, Mom, I think observing filial piety is about the heart It's not about keeping the queue Where did you get such weird ideas? Man, come on In this chaotic times The brighter our kid the greater our worries Mom, why? Dad, you tell me why Here they are at last? They're here? What's wrong with you? Use your head! I Master, Lady, this guy was on patrol he saw a shadow and thought it was one of Fu Hung-mo's men He just fired off So was it or not? No, he made a mistake You two can go back to your sleep Milady, come on What's that? What fell down? A dead ox Go check every corner out, just go Yes They want money only You have the 1,000 taels ready? Yes Just to be play safe If Master Yim fails to stop them The money can save our lives Come on Master Young Master is missing What? Young Master is missing You are Fu Hung-mo? Hung-mo means red hair But your hair and your beard are black Why do you cut others' queues off? Kiddie Asking me questions before I asked you? Let me ask you, what's your name? Lp Man Come again? Lp Man Delivering yourself to me? Come with me I won't cut your queue off I just want to chop your finger off Come on over Why? I just delivered an ox to your dad and got a big present in return His only son Why you want my finger instead of my queue? You are scared? What's the use of getting scared? There are so many of you I am just a child You can do whatever you like with me You are some kid Your saber I told you to keep a watch on Young Master But you failed to heed my word I wasn't sleeping in his room I couldn't have caught him slipping out How dare you talk back? Master Yim don't blame him for it Spare me your crocodile tears If something happens to Young Master You have to pay it with your life Master, oh no Master Kneel! What is it? Just say it Master Milady See what you have done! Where is the man? That's what he said: Get 3,000 taels ready tomorrow Deliver it to the Earth Deity Temple on the outskirts of town In such chaotic times Where can I find 3,000 taels? Master, Lady Let me go to that Fu Hung-mo My name Yim Tung commands some respect with my skills in martial arts Even if it means my life I'll get Young Master back Take it Kid, you kind of grow on me You were very talkative Why so quiet now? I thought revolution meant cutting queues But you chop fingers off and demand money If you made it clear The people didn't have to worry about their queues Cutting queues and chopping fingers are for making money only Bear what I say in mind In this world, everything boils down to money I don't think so What do you know? If every queue is cut It means our revolution is accomplished Then I am a founding father I can be a high official Being a high official means money will come my way What has the queue got to do with it? There you go again Kid, you are in danger You're still in the mood to ask such questions? Mind your own life Who is it? Yim Tung of the Jiangxi Hard Gate School Young Master, it's alright I am taking you home Halt! You are a queue cutter? The troop's queue cutter A new trade that's in demand I am very good at it My cuts are even and neat Let me cut your queue for you No Haven't heard of our rule "the head or the queue"? I just want to know why we have to choose between the head and the queue Kiddie, you are not afraid of death? You want money only, you won't kill me You sure can take him away But where's the money? I hear that Fu Hung-mo used to be our peer Then let's settle it our way, mano a mano Mano a mano? Sure, challenge accepted If you win, you can take him away If you lose, sorry, the price goes up Please Master Yim Master Yim Master Yim Master Yim Master Yim Just get up I am my dad's son, I only listen to him You are so stubborn Before Master Yim came to us He's already well-known among martial arts practitioners You have nothing to worry about Dad Master I've failed you, I've shamed you Get up first What what happened? They have upped the ransom demand to 10,000 taels I am sorry Master 10,000 taels? I am sorry Ip's Residence What are you doing? Milady, you are the one who runs the lp household and our Sangyuan business I am more like a hanger-on Let me do my part this time Money comes and goes the family fortune can be rebuilt Bear it in mind You and our son come first I understand Uncle, let me go with you When the Manchus were invited in to take on Li Zicheng's rebel army The intellectuals welcomed them on their knees However, when they were demanded to shave their head and wear a queue They turned against the Manchus You know about the Yangzhou massacre and the Jiading massacre? No What are you doing here? Lp Oi-dor, head of the lp family asks to see Commander Fu Where's the money? Money Commander, it's not possible to raise 10,000 taels in so short a time Many Han people lost their lives for refusing to wear a queue Weren't they being unnecessarily obstinate? Now they are free not to wear a queue But many would rather die than giving it up Don't you find it hard to fathom? How come you are so knowledgeable? You either learn from books Reading books of different schools Or you learn from travelling From meeting different people and experiencing things As you grow up, you will meet with all sorts of strange things Bear it in mind Dig into everything by asking questions Pick everyone's brain, keep asking Because people see things differently Commander Fu, please reconsider 10,000 taels or the lp family line Make your pick Make your pick Dad? Brother Ching-shan Boy, what are you snickering at? That you are bandits in revolutionaries' clothing What bandits? What revolutionaries? Did you just fart? Farting Just stay here, don't wander about The soldiers outside are not nice He who wins the support of the people will flourish What nonsense what support what flourish Young man, we are starving Do you have a way to get this revolutionary troop out of their plight? Yes we are starving Who are you? A nobody, I cut hair I am talking with Commander Fu Stay out of it Young man, how perceptive The Wuchang Uprising has opened up people's minds Canton people are known to be radical in their outlook If you discipline yourselves well once you take over Canton you can have as much money and as many men as you want Now he's talking Young man, you are not here for the rescue You are here to show off your learning Boy, you do know something How come you are here? Hush! To take you away Wait! Let me hear them out You do have some nerve Hush! We shouldn't let the chaotic times thwart our aspirations Aspirations Ambition is revolution's undoing Why have so many revolutions failed? It's because of ambition You know why I joined the revolution? Because I have seen how corrupted the Qing court is I joined the revolution not because I wanted to be some founding father but to answer to here to my conscience Bravo With your shortsightedness How will the revolution be a success? On the contrary, I'd say every revolutionary should be short-sighted Only then will the revolution be successful Indeed, how true Freeze Run How dare you! This is a trap Freeze How dare you! This is a trap It's a misunderstanding This is not a trap He dares to trick us, cut him no slack Let go We played no tricks you Ip Man, you just stay here Where are you going? Just stay put, wait for me to come back, get it? Wait for me We haven't played any tricks, really no Be off we haven't played any tricks Let go of us Who is it? Freeze Master Yu Greetings from Yu Fung-kau Born and raised in Foshan Unlike you though, I've employed my skills in martial arts since I was 18 in safeguarding peace for Foshan The lp family may be rich But they are honourable Now their only son has been kidnapped It's my duty to get him back How cool, you took our hostage and you have the nerve to come back Commander Fu, you too are a martial arts practitioner Let us settle it our way Alright, your wish is granted But again, as in our common practice If you win, you have the boy If you lose, the ransom is no longer 10,000 taels It's 30,000 taels 30,000 taels And have it sent over within a day Or you can kiss the lp's family goodbye Kiss them goodbye Yu Fung-kau of the Crane School What an embarrassment you are Back down A barber is such an adept? Come on Greetings, Fu Jing-wan here Dad This barber is a liar Kid, you delivered yourself to me How's your hand? Dad, I am fine Look, it's just a cut My finger was not chopped off I don't know why Fu Hung-mo is you Kid, if you want to go far What you need is not just eyesight but the perceptive power to tell between right and wrong Master Yu, now there's a peer I just couldn't resist it Fu Jing-wan of Emperor Taizu's Longfist School Yu Fung-kau of the Crane School Master Yu, awesome You are in the troop But you are the equal of any martial arts masters My total admiration Master Yu, you are too kind My school belongs to the Fujian branch of the Southern Styles We fought side by side with the Guangdong branch in the overthrowing of the Manchu rule The various schools in Canton can trace their lineage to Southern Shaolin We are brethren, so to speak So kungfu is not simple at all Son, China has a history of over five thousand years Many cultivations have been lost in time Kungfu, however, is one of the exceptions Hence it's a rich and extensive heritage Master Yu, from foes to friends Let's forget what happened See it as a misunderstanding Man, let's go Just a moment What? It's alright, Dad You are Fu Hung-mo, then let me ask you Why do you cut others' queues off? Brother Lam, what do you think? This young boy here sees more than you do Young man, what do you think? Is revolution good or bad? Good, of course Not necessarily Every revolution in history cost tens of thousands of lives Yet the outcome might not have been beneficial to all Then why are you still a revolutionary? The outcome of a revolution may not be good But what we have now is definitely bad Revolution doesn't promise us a bright future But true revolutionaries will always look forward Commander Fu, here you are 1,000 taels But I know you are short of funds See it as the lp family's donation to the cause Alright, thank you Commander Fu, may I ask a favour of you? Please go ahead The situation is volatile The revolutionaries here today may turn the Eight Banners tomorrow The loss of my queue will put me in inconvenience My Sangyuan household of five hundred depends on me With you gone, I'll have to fend it on my own So please let me keep my queue for the time being Alright Commander Fu, thank you Man, let's go I bid you goodbye Master Yu Some boy lp Man Dad How do I look? Rascal, so it's not taking a dump You went to cut your queue off lp Man Ip Man, take your queue back I don't want it anymore You are right, no queue may not be a good thing But wearing a queue is definitely bad Bear it in mind You still have a long road ahead You are bound to encounter painful decisions When your courage fails you Take a look at this queue Let it remind you of your first drastic decision Hold it Your son will make you proud Master Yu, you have one worthy disciple Young man, a lesson from the French Revolution Oh Revolution! What crimes are committed in thy name? Think about it See you Brother Fu, when will we meet again? Brother Fu, goodbye Brother Fu Dad Fu Jing-wan, you can't be more wrong Brother Ching-shan, what did you say? Lp Man, you naughty boy be obedient from now on Look Keep your queue safe, get it? Rascal Wuchang Uprising, 10 October 1911 10 October, Hubei declares independence 22 October, Hunan declares independence Foshan, Guangdong Feel free to take a look Change your money here Change your money with Cashier Wah Cashier Wah, it's early of you 305 coppers for a dime No profit margin for me at all Not paid back even for the labour Don't miss your chance Come on over 305 coppers for a dime I'm taking it all, come on Here you are Be generous It's heavy Cashier Wah, more deals and you can't carry it I have room for more If I can't carry it I'll give the money to all of you I mean it This bit of weight means nothing to me Come on over Cashier Wah, what about mine? Of course Count them Sure Let me count them Thank you Come on over Money exchange Queue off Don't go queue off Leave me alone Please, leave me alone Queue off Tak Shing Money Shop Boss Cashier Wah Take out the abacus and count for him What's the exchange rate today? 10 dimes for one dollar 300 coppers for a dime It's hard-earned money for you indeed Two heavy chests all day You only make two dimes from the difference Many a little makes a mickle I know no other trades I have to sweat for it Master Chan, what a firm clamping stance You picked up Wing Chun from Master Tsan? Beat him What's going on? Beat him Chun-loi has been trained by his dad since he was small lp Man can't fight him