The victory of the communist party of China to make Ip Man (Donnie Yen) were forced to leave his family and moved to Hong Kong. Master Wing Chun martial managed to land safely in the land of this British colony about the year 1949. Arriving in Hong Kong, Ip Man still must find a way to survive in this new country. The only way is to establish universities Wing Chun. Unfortunately this is not an easy business.

Wing Chun is not a typical martial arts in Hong Kong. Despite getting help from a friend who let his place be used as a gym but still could not bring in Ip Man pupil. Ip Man's fate changed when he met Leung Wong (Huang Xiaoming). Wong, who originally challenged the science of Ip Man to compete even Ip Man eventually became disciples.

Problems not over till here. It turned out to open a martial arts university in Hong Kong there are requirements that must be met by Ip Man. Ip Man had to wait on the challenges of the Warrior Kung Fu in Hong Kong before the deemed worthy of teaching Kung Fu. One of the Kung Fu warrior that must be faced by Ip Man is a Hung Gar (Sammo Hung) who turned out to have as good science by Ip Man.

Once the problem is finished, Ip Man still must be confronted with the oppression of the ruling British Government in Hong Kong at that time. Again Ip Man must use his martial knowledge to serve the Twister (Darren Shahlavi), England's ferocious fighter.

As a sequel, IP MAN 2 is still not far from the 'soul' of the first film. The theme still remains a matter of nationalism, against oppression. If in the first part of the Ip Man had to deal with the Japanese government that invaded China, this time Ip Man had to deal with the British government, represented by the figure of this boxer named Twister.

It's also not something that surprised because most Asian films have always focused on the problem of 'feeling'. Director usually use dramatic scene as a means to involve the audience into the film, in contrast to the western method that uses the story plot, characterizations and dialogue as a means to involve the audience.

If the plot is predictable then that can become a weapon clearly is a character and visualization of the story itself. About this one, it seems the IP MAN 2 is still pretty good. Like the first section, while the election visualization convincing enough as an actor Donnie Yen Ip Man it's also very appropriate. If Jet Li became synonymous with the Wong Fei Hung can be said is Ip Man Donnie Yen.

Fight choreography is also very satisfactory and this can already be predicted from the beginning. Sammo Hung is not new in the world in the world of film and martial arts and film IP MAN 2 This is the proof. Sammo Hung and Donnie Yen could use the expertise optimally and result is very admirable.

Detective Manfred (Leon Lai) is stubborn. He never let a case through unsolved. Dedication of this work made him known as the police net, but at the same time the dedication of these things that made him get involved in complicated involving many people in high places.

At first only because Manfred would not give up investigating the murder of a prostitute. At the scene apparently found traces of DNA of one of his police officers and make this police became the prime suspect in his murder case. Manfred thinks this is too easy and try to dig deeper.

Without being asked, Kee (Richie Ren) who actually served in the narcotics offer assistance. The desire to help which was not logical anymore this time to make Manfred suspicious but he had no evidence to support suspicions of this. Manfred realizes that she can no longer rely on anyone because in situations like these friends and foes are something that can not be clearly seen.

Without his knowledge, the cases he investigated it turned out to involve many people in the upper class. When Manfred successfully conclude this case the good name of Hong Kong police will be tarnished. Can Manfred resolve this case?

Good cop, bad cop is one of the topics most frequently used in Hong Kong films. This time again we were treated to the work of director Dante Lam who took this topic. Not just taking the same topic with the previous films, but this movie can say is follow the pattern of generic movie with a theme like this. There is no mystery. No questions were mounting and make the audience wait until the end of the movie. Everything is almost palpable depicted since the beginning of the film.

Nothing wrong was because this movie was made not to burden the audience with a bunch of question marks. Dante Lam would like to invite the audience to have fun. The trick? Regale shooting, explosions, dang each blow. Again this is not an error because the action movie is about action and the story line was not too important.

About acting, no one is too prominent. Duo Leon Lai and Richie Ren plays quite sufficient even though it seems it's not their fault entirely. Looks like the script did not allow them to do much. The proof of the two main characters are apparently not dealt with cooked so it is more memorable as the characters are two dimensional that suddenly appear and then disappear again.

Cracks logic is also quite a lot and it became evidence that actual storyline was not too important. He just there to assemble a number of dramatic scene that is already there in the mind of the director.

Loner: Horror of Hikikomori

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Product Description
This movie highlights the horror that can be lurking inside even a tiny and lonely room. Su-na, once a bright and adorable girl, locks herself alone in her room after her best friend's suicide. She starts to talk and behave as if someone else exists in her room, but never opens the door to anyone. Finally, her uncle brings his fiance, Yun-mi, a psychologist specializing in hikikomori (people who isolate themselves from society), and she finds Su-na's trouble has something to do with the family's secret history...

Sinopsis
Hikikomori or The loner is a Korean horror film which tells the story of Su-na, a teenage girl cheerful and pleasant, with a close friend of Jung Ha, who are victims of oppression of their classmates. Not bear abused, Ha Jung then turned into hikikomori and suicide.

Su-na, then beaten and became upset, because the left Ha Jung. In the middle of confiuse, he realized there was a sad and painful secret from his family masalalu. Su-na and then began to show signs hikikomori. Su-na acted like someone else dikamarnya, and never opened his door again.

Hikikomori itself is a Japanese term that means "pulling away", and began to attract media attention since the 1999-2000s because quite phenomenal. Allegedly there are about 2 million teenagers (because it strikes at the age of 13-20s) that Japan had "disease" is. The most obvious syndrome of hikikomori is never out of the room (or home). Even noted there people who do not want to come out of his room (except waste water kali ya?) For 10 years.

80% of perpetrators are male and the hikikomori phenomenon is frequently encountered in developed countries, but only in Japan, hikikomori is considered a social phenomenon, and much talk on TV .Most of the public in the media blamed the loss factor of fatherless families (because of excessive work into the night), mothers who are too spoiled child (perhaps because of the small number of children), academic pressures at school, harassment at school (school bullying), and video games in Japan tempting extraordinary.

The pressure on schools to some extent contribute to the hikikomori. Most abused because they are too fat, thin, tall or exceed the capabilities of others in any case. There was a hikikomori with more than usual ability in basketball and abused - which does not get a chance to play real time in the school team. Like the Japanese saying goes, the nail that stands out will be hammered to be uniform.