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A good director’s output could/should come off as versatile, refusing to be slotted into the expected and easily sorted folder. It seems Kirk Wong after opening more traditionally with The Club thought like this as evident in his horror-comedy Lifeline Express that we covered last episode. But we track back to movie number two, the special mind/genre-bender Flash Future Kung Fu from 1983 for this second installment of The Director’s Series on Kirk Wong. Joining Kenny B and Tom K-W and Sylvia Rorem of The Heroic Sisterhood – The Ladies’ Asian Action Cinema Appreciation Society to discuss what’s left of Kirk’s multi-nominated vision of the future.

Thanks to Henrik Andersson for help with cleaning up the audio!

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Running Times:
14m 10s – Johnny Wang bio/discussion
27m 05s – Eddy Ko bio/discussion
35m 10s – Ray Lui bio/discussion
52m 18s – Flash Future Kung Fu review

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Mamoru Oshii returns to his anime masterpiece to tweak. Kenny B and Coffin Jon from VCinema returns as well to explain what went wrong with  Ghost In The Shell 2.0.

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Kenny B and Coffin Jon from VCinema return to their Mamoru Oshii coverage for a (biblical?) discussion about all things Ghost In The Shell from 1995.

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Running times:
12m 05s – Ghost In The Shell manga and anime background
32m 50s – Ghost In The Shell review

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Mixing vintage Hong Kong cinema of the recognizeable kind rather than us going for obscure only has been our tac this year but the programmer of this episode Dr. Lam brings Kenny B and Tom K-W a slice of current too. First up is our review of Wong Kar-wai’s debut movie, the triad-romance As Tears Go By from 1988 and second is Lau Ching-wan’s welcome back party into the fold of Milkyway Image in the form of Johnnie To’s and Wai Ka-fai’s Mad Detective.

Ken’s note. Audio gets a little low on my end at points for some reason. Sorry about that.

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Stoo and Andy return for another Scottish Edition of Podcast on Fire! Before the main attraction, the discussion of Dante Lam’s Beast Stalker, the duo get some thoughts into Western cinema of late such as The Tooth Fairy, A Place Beyond The Pines and the indie-hit Iron Man 3.

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Covering Michael Mak’s classic Sex And Zen on episode 3, fast forward to 1996 and 1998 respectively where Category III wasn’t as hot of an item anymore and Wong Jing decided to bring back the series. Echoing little to none of the original, written source material ‘The Carnal Prayer Mat’ but focusing on new stories, new craziness and faces willing to to take their clothes off, Cash Chin’s Sex And Zen 2 and Aman Chang’s Sex And Zen 3 are up for discussion in this episode with Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal.

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Because they were excluded from the main episode discussion and they deserve to put their thoughts on air, the duo of Tom K-W and Dr. Lam take hold of the mic to discuss Sammo Hung’s action classic.

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