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The Director’s Series 36: Johnny Wang – The Innocent Interloper & Fury

20 August 2022 knetan PODCASTS, The Director's Series, Johnny Wang 01:13:21 0 Comments

After two bloody outings in 1985 at Shaw Brothers, including a shaky mixture of comedy combined with grave violence, Johnny Wang attempts to address the balance by keeping matters light, hard but not brutally gory. Flash forward to the movie after where he starts hurting people again using the heroic bloodshed template. With Kenny B & Tom K-W.

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Running Times:

00m 00s – Intro/The Innocent Interloper cast notes and box office.
13m 50s – The Innocent Interloper review.
38m 58s – Fury box office.
41m 58s – Fury review.

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Podcast On Fire 322: The Enigmatic Case & Seven Years Itch

16 July 2022 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire 01:29:18 0 Comments

Johnnie To makes his first and second film. Neither are called or are like The Mission. From 1980 we find the martial arts mystery film The Enigmatic Case and writer/producer/star Raymond Wong has To call action and cut for his marital farce Seven Years Itch. With Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen West Screen podcast.

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Music courtesy of Brian Kirby (shelflifeclothing.com).

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Running Times:

00m 00s – Intro/Johnnie To’s early career/box office.
14m 55s – The Enigmatic Case review.
49m 28s – Seven Years Itch box office.
54m 14s – Seven Years Itch review.

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Podcast On Fire 321: The Wicked City

2 July 2022 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire, (Leon) Lai or Bye 00:58:47 0 Comments

Producer Tsui Hark takes his love for Japanese manga and anime by taking one of its popular films Wicked City to the big live screen as… The Wicked City. Will Leon be Lai or Bye in terms of his efforts in this film? With Kenny B and Phil G.

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Music courtesy of Brian Kirby.

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Running Times:

00m 00s – Intro, novel background, on the anime, live action remake and reception.
23m 20s – The Wicked City review.

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Podcast On Fire 318: The Butterfly Murders

26 March 2022 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire 01:00:18 0 Comments

Tsui Hark enters the magical, mystical world of the Wuxia film and the magical world of film, making his debut with 1979’s The Butterfly Murders. With Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen West Screen podcast.

Running times:
00m 00s – Intro/The Butterfly Murders background, on Tsui Hark’s early career, alternate versions etc.
29m 08s – The Butterfly Murders review.

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Music courtesy of Brian Kirby (shelflifeclothing.com).

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Podcast On Fire 317: The Young Dragons

12 March 2022 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire 00:50:42 0 Comments

John Woo comes out swinging and kicking for his debut feature, 1973’s The Young Dragons, with Jackie Chan as his action director. With Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen West Screen podcast.

Running times:
00m 00s – Intro/The Young Dragons background.
11m 51s – The Young Dragons review.

Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our iTunes feed.

Music courtesy of Brian Kirby (shelflifeclothing.com).

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Podcast On Fire 314: 2021 Christmas Special

23 December 2021 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire, Christmas Specials 01:37:12 0 Comments

It’s the annual Podcast On Fire Trivia Night disguised as our Christmas Special. Kenny B is this year’s Lord Quizmaster and Stewart Sutherland and Tom K-W (of The Lager Logs) along with East Screen West Screen’s Paul Fox compete for a sweet Canto-pop prize.

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Podcast On Fire 313: Profile In Anger & Danger Has Two Faces

4 December 2021 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire, The Versus Series 01:35:30 0 Comments

In another entry in The Versus-series, Leung Kar-yan makes his directorial debut with the wild revenge actioner Profile In Anger from 1984 and in the Shaw Brothers production Danger Has Two Faces from 1985 he’s an ex-cop turned assassin for hire. With Kenny B and Michael Scott of the Adkins Undisputed podcast.

00m 00s – Intro/Leung Kar-Yan biography.
23m 30s – Profile In Anger review.
54m 15s – Alex Cheung biography.
60m 45s – Danger Has Two Faces review

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