YMMV / Ip Man

• Anti-Climax Boss: General Miura. Although he is introduced as a powerful and dangerous antagonist, certainly a bigger challenge to Ip than his Japanese underlings, his final fight against Ip Man is a glorified Curb-Stomp Battle for the Chinese. All he gets is a couple punches and throws at the match's beginning before Ip Man wrecks him through the entire bout.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: The idea of a imperial general forcing Chinese prisoners to fight him to prove the superiority of his martial arts could sound like the stereotypical Japanese Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy mentality, but that's exactly what Chinese military did with Japanese prisoners during the Sino-Japanese Wars. One of the greatest Chinese martial artists, Chang Tung Sheng, actually gained his fame by beating prisoners in POW camps.
• Inferred Holocaust: The movie concludes the final fight with the spectators overpowering the Japanese guards to get to the wounded hero, then cuts to him being taken to safety and later to his real-life success. What happens to the Foshan townsfolk as a result of the Japanese response is left unknown, although the sequel shows at least one of Ip's friends shot for it.
• Memetic Mutation: After the film's release, almost anything involving Donnie Yen will lead to "I want to fight ten" jokes, and for a short time afterwards parodies of the scene made it into various other movies.
• Moral Event Horizon: Colonel Sato makes it clear very early in his appearance that he is a Smug Snake, but crosses the horizon after he coldly guns down Master Liu for losing an extra round he volunteered for. It is made especially stark because up to then the combat had all been hand-to-hand martial arts fare. Even General Miura is disgusted by the breach of honorable unarmed combat.
• Questionable Casting: Barely averted because Hiroyuki Ikeichi does a convincing performance as Miura, but the oddity remains in that, if you are a casting director looking for a guy to play a Karate master, you are not supposed to choose an actor with a background in Judo.
• Signature Scene: Ip Man's fight against the 10 black belts.

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