UPDATE: New images from ‘Ip Man 2′

Update: Dream Movie Australia has asked us to remove all images from this article apart from the poster because the filmmakers had not intended them to be released to the public. In the spirit of supporting the great work that Wilson Yip and his team have been doing I have complied with their wishes.

As director Wilson Yip’s kung fu sequel IP MAN 2, starring Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung, draws closer to its Asian and Australian premiere, we have gotten our hands on a host of newly released images including a new teaser poster and pics depicting stunt actor Darren Shahlavi as Yip Man’s boxing opponent, more shots of Donnie Yen vs. Sammo Hung, and our first glimpse of child actor Jiang Daiyan as a young Bruce Lee. These images reveal much more of the film than we’ve yet seen from either the teaser trailer or previously released images.

In IP MAN 2, Wing Chun master Yip Man (Yen) leaves mainland China to begin teaching the art in Hong Kong where he comes into conflict with a local Hung Fist master (Sammo Hung) and foreign aggressors.

IP MAN 2 is scheduled for release in Asia and Australia on April 29, 2010.

The Oz release is courtesy of Dream Movie, a distributor committed to bringing first-run Chinese films to Australia on the same day they’re released in Asia. They’re currently showing the new Hong Kong Lunar New Year movie, 72 TENANTS OF PROSPERITY. For details on all Dream Movie’s current and future Oz releases visit http://dreammovieaustralia.blogspot.com.