Released during the 1980s Kung Fu craze sparked by Bruce Lee's posthumous fame, this film was produced and written by students of Ip Man’s first Hong Kong generation of disciples. Grandmaster Leung Ting, who learned from Ip Man and Wong Shong Leung (Bruce Lee’s direct instructor), wrote, produced, and directed it. The Hong Kong Ving-Tsun style had by then evolved from traditional Southern Wing Chun into a more fluid, kick-oriented system, unlike the original form focused on immediate, decisive strikes, reflecting elements similar to those that inspired Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do.