Wilson Yip is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on October 23, 1963 in Hong Kong. A movie buff at the age of a child, Yip went to the cinema as often as he could and frequently wrote his reviews on the back of tickets. He began his career in the film industry in the early 1980s, beginning as a “gofer” and working his upwards to become an assistant director.
Other films include the science-fiction-action story 2002, and the romantic comedies, Dry Wood, Fierce Fire (with Miriam Yeung and Louis Koo) and Leaving Me, Loving You (with Leon Lai and Faye Wong). In 2004 Yip also produced his first wuxia-style production, The White Dragon, with Cecilia Cheung and Francis Ng.
In 2006, Yip re-teamed with Yen for an adaptation of a Hong Kong manga, Dragon Tiger Gate. In 2007 Yip released Flash Point, another martial-arts crime drama in the same vein as SPL. The film starred Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, and Collin Chou.
Yen and Yip’s latest collaboration as actor and director, Ip Man, is a semi-biographical account of Ip Man, the first martial arts master (Chinese: Sifu) to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun openly. It also featured fight choreography by Sammo Hung. The film was released in December 2008 and immediately shot to number one on its opening week in Hong Kong, earning over HK$2.8 million in three weeks.
In 2000, he was selected in 2000 by Golden Harvest to direct Skyline Cruisers the action film with a large budget. film. Yip was not a good fit with the actors and argued with the studio’s leadership over disagreements in the creative process.
