It's now the early 1950s and, having survived the Japanese invasion of southern China, Man and his family have pitched up in British-controlled Hong Kong.

Martial-arts master Ip Man takes on a crooked developer and his gang of brutal thugs who are trying to take over the city.

Centres around a violent dispute between pre-Reunification Hong Kong drugs dealers, their Vietnamese suppliers and the cops, who are out to kill the import and distribution of narcotics on the island.