Our audio commentary of Enter The Fat Dragon is also available with video on You Tube! Just click on the  video below to start the commentary (divided into 10 parts) or navigate the full playlist link (Enter The Fat Dragon starts at the bottom of page 1 of the playlist) to take in the experience ALMOST dvd-style. The playlist of course holds our prior commentaries on Eastern Condors and Mismatched Couples so if you haven’t given them a spin, be sure to do so!

The long overdue return of our series of audio commentaries continues with a dissection of Sammo Hung’s Enter The Fat Dragon. Joining Stoo and Ken is Mike Leeder and expect a whole lot of fun with discussion on Bruce Lee, Bruceploitation and Sammo’s loving, comedic tribute to the late legend. Excuse some of the audio problems at a few points. We’re still a low-fi unit at POF HQ.

For those with out the Crash Cinema DVD, we’ve got your back with the YouTube Edition.

 

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Plot: When a underwater volcano erupts it leaves Japan in turmoil.  After the damage is done it’s determined that Japan is in fact sinking and they have under a year left before Japan is submerged.

Review: Sinking of Japan AKA Japan Sinking is going to be difficult to sum up with out comparing it to the American blockbusters; Day After Tomorrow and 2012. I have little interest in the natural disaster genre and the slow start to this movie left me with little hope and interest towards the movie and its ill fated cast.

Based on the original novel by Sakyo Komatsu, it focuses on three characters who are brought together by the first eruption. Our leading lady is Reiko (Kou Shibasaki), is part of an elite rescue squad. She saves both our leading man, submarine research pilot Onoder (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and wondering orphan child Misaki (Mayuko Fukuda). (continue reading…)

Oh you lucky people! We’re giving away one copy of Tetsuya Nakashima’s amusing fable “Kamikaze Girls” starring Kyoko Fukuda and Anna Tsuchiya. We’ve got a full review coming online soon, but what we want to know is;

Which one of these 3 movies are directed KG director Tetsuya Nakashima;

A) Memories of Murder
B) Memories of Matsuko
C) Memories of Tomorrow

You can enter the competition by replying to this topic (please fill the email box so we can get back to you), reply on our forum, mention us on Twitter (@PodcastOnFire) or post your answers on our Facebook topic. Please bear in mind, only one entry per person and for United Kingdom residences only.

Best of Luck!

Due to the sudden death of his mother during his childhood, Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) is raised by his father Tetso, who dealt with his grief by becoming a man of God. After his father is stung at the end of a wild relationship, Yu has to pay daily when forced to daily confessions. Being a natural saint he could only lie, although being a terrible liar he’s beaten and forced into a rebellious streak of sin!

It starts of small, skipping school and joining a gang. Three hours later feeble attempts at mass murder and terrorist bombings. During Yu’s roller coaster ride he meets two very different young women, both who will change his life for ever. (continue reading…)

Plot: Detective Chan (Simon Yam) is forced into a early retirement when he diagnosed with a  brain tumor. This was discovered when he was involved in an car  crash when transporting valuable witnesses to court. Our antagonist, notorious gang leader Wong Po (Sammo Hung) is released from prison when his witnesses died in the crash.

Detective Chan tries his best in the next following years to put the wicked crime lord behind bars, but can’t quite cut it. On his last days of the job he is introduced to his replacement, Officer Ma (Donnie Yen) a young fierce cop with a bad ‘ass reputation. (continue reading…)

Author of  “Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters: Defending the Earth with Ultraman and Godzilla” shares with Ken the very first childhood Kaiju-exposure, how it’s corrupted him since, comparison of the Godzilla eras and basically verbally writing a love letter to the Gamera-series. Yet another. It’s deserved. Also featuring almost  50 minutes of deleted conversations in the Members Only Area, available via a FREE, simple registration on the forum.

Links: (continue reading…)

 

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