Ip returns to Hong Kong and accepts the fact that Ching likes martial arts. Wan prepares the referral letter for Ip, but Ip turns it down, having decided against moving to America. Hartman brings Ip to the Marines', and he ultimately defeats Geddes after a long and savage fight. Ip apologizes to his son for hitting him before and promises to teach him kung fu when he returns.
Bo finally snaps and angrily tells Ip Ching to talk to his father over the phone, after many previous refusals by the younger Ip. An emotional Ip reveals to Bo that he has cancer. At first, Wan is able to match all of Geddes' blows, but is eventually overwhelmed and seriously injured. Wan and Geddes fight at the Marines' camp. Lee provides refuge for the Association, earning their respect. Due to a tip-off by Billy, a subordinate of Walters and another student of Lee, Ip and Gen help the Association evacuate by the time the INS conduct its raid. He then threatens Walters into releasing Wan into Marine custody before bringing Wan into the camp to fight him. Upon seeing his ally in the hospital, Geddes barges into the Association to find out where Wan is, and uses his strength and karate prowess to brutally defeat all the grandmasters present. Meanwhile, Wan, who was supposed to be present at the festival, is arrested by the INS. Frater proves his strength by defeating three grandmasters until Ip intervenes and beats him badly, hospitalizing him. Geddes instructs Frater to challenge the grandmasters at the Festival. Hartman later manages to convince the unit's commanding officer of kung fu's potential, and is instructed to film the Mid-Autumn Festival happening at Chinatown for research purposes, infuriating Geddes. Geddes, an openly racist man, seemingly proves the Marines' current karate program superior by having Hartman fight the Marines' karate instructor, Colin Frater, who defeats him.
Meanwhile, Hartman Wu, a Staff Sergeant in the United States Marines and student of Lee, attempts to convince Barton Geddes, the Gunnery Sergeant on his base, to incorporate Chinese martial arts into their hand-to-hand combat training. Her father, Andrew Walters, an officer of the INS, is pressured by his wife into holding the Association responsible and deporting all illegal immigrants associated with them. Ip refuses, explaining that he merely accompanied Yonah home for her own safety, and leaves.īecky lies to her parents, claiming that she had been attacked by Yonah. The duel is interrupted by an earthquake, and Wan tells Ip they will finish their fight at the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival. He escorts Yonah home, where Wan accuses Ip of using his daughter merely to get the letter and challenges him to a fight for it. She is ultimately outnumbered, and Ip steps in to rescue her. Yonah fights back which results in Becky accidentally cutting herself on a pair of scissors. While leaving the school after a meeting with the principal, Ip chances upon Wan's teenage daughter, Yonah, undergoing a racist attack from a rival cheerleader, Becky, and her male friends. After a brief confrontation with Wan, resulting in a broken tabletop, Ip leaves.
Grandmaster Wan Zhong-hua, the Association's president, refuses to write the letter as Ip is unbothered by Lee's actions, whereas the other grandmasters display open contempt. He discovers from his friend Liang Gen that, because he is a foreigner, a referral letter from the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association is needed to enroll Ching into an American school. Ip arrives in San Francisco, where his student Bruce Lee has upset the local martial arts community by opening a kung fu school, teaching non-Chinese people martial arts, and writing an English-language book on martial arts. After Ching and his father get into a heated argument that ends with Ip slapping his son, he decides to entrust Ching to his friend, Fat Bo, and also promises to call every night to check on his son. After his rebellious son Ip Ching fights back against a bully and is subsequently expelled from school, Ip Man decides to travel to San Francisco in order to look for study opportunities. In 1964, Ip Man is diagnosed with throat cancer due to his history of chronic smoking.
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