The film featured two actors who had portrayed Ip Man. Donnie Yen played the character in the "Ip Man" trilogy and Anthony Chau-Sang Wong played him in Ip Man: The Final Fight (2013).
This was the first Hong Kong/Chinese film to be mixed in the Dolby Surround 7.1 encoding system. Coincidentally, Wai Keung Lau's movie The Avenging Fist (2001) was the first Hong Kong film mixed in the Dolby Digital EX 6.1 surround encoding system.