After unleashing a violent basher on us in the form of The Young Dragons, John Woo is assigned to Korea to make further, sometimes naked kung-fu as The Dragon Tamers. Also, you know they say John Woo’s films are like bullet opera, like ballet? Well how about an actual opera? Examining 1976’s Princess Chang Ping, with Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen West Screen podcast. Read More
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Continuing the Versus Series, lined up for review is Golden Harvest’s 1973 Angela Mao movie When Taekwondo Strikes. She might take your head off, fighting on the side of the Korean people against the Japanese. Also, in Heroes Of The East, Lau Kar-Leung depicts Chinese versus Japanese martial arts in a more nuanced and friendly way. With Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen West Screen podcast.
Running Times:
00m 00s – Intro/When Taekwondo Strikes background and review
57m 41 – Heroes Of The East review
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We kick off a sub-section of Podcast On Fire dubbed The Versus-Series, where we place content, characters and theme in two respective movies against each other. The first installment concerns Wong Fei-Hung, as envisioned by Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers respectively. 1974’s The Skyhawk starring Kwan Tak-hing as Wong Fei-Hung in one of his many appearances as the classic character is up first and from 1973, we’ll review and discuss Master Of Kung Fu starring studio veteran Ku Feng. With Kenny B and Phil G of Eastern Film Fans.co.uk.
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Running Times:
00m 00s – Intro/The Skyhawk review
50m 23s – The Master Of Kung Fu review.
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It’s a matter of honor. It’s a matter of life and death. His body destroyed by drugs. He must struggle fiercly to reach the top. When the blood stops flowing, one man stands alone.
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Going in solo this week, Kenny B discusses recent This Week In Sleaze developments and feelings nearing the debut of the Taiwan Noir podcast. Main review of the week is the dubbed version of Albert Law’s The Mad-Cold Blooded Murder and I say dubbed because something was a Lettle bit different compared to the subtitled print…
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The Podcast On Fire Network aims to provide a large, continually expanding overview of Asian cinema. On the flagshow Podcast On Fire, the big guns out of Hong Kong cinema gets a spotlight through discussion and review while the remainder of the network shows gives you insight into Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese cinema and the history of adult oriented Hong Kong cinema!