His name is Chow. Stephen Chow. Comedy-star turned director takes aim at the global phenomenon that is the James Bond franchise, with sprinklings of his personal comedy-stylings in From Beijing With Love from 1994. Kenny B, Paul Fox and Kevin Ma discusses the film’s impact, political satire and why it could never be made today. Read More
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
It’s a meat and kung fu frenzy as Tsui Hark goes cannibal action comedy on us in We’re Going To Eat You. With Kenny B and Michael Scott of the Action For Everyone podcast. Read More
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Everybody wins something except Leon Lai but along with Maggie Cheung he appears in the 1996 romance classic Comrades, Almost A Love Story. Also, on the streets of Tokyo, a mentally challenged Leon Lai is looking for his brother and finds a childhood friend played by Chapman To. It’s not as sugary as you think. He also becomes a Korean gigolo, in 2005’s Moonlight In Tokyo from the writers of Infernal Affairs. With Kenny B and Phil G of Eastern Film Fans. Read More
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Multiple romance stories are being gradually told. One for us. One by and before the characters in 1998’s Art Museum By The Zoo. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid.
Running Times:
00m 00s – Intro/reception/on director Lee Jeong-hyang.
26m 58s – Shum Eun-ha biography and discussion.
37m 39s – The remaining films of Lee Jeong-hyang’s
44m 33s – Art Museum By The Zoo 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.
Show Links:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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.
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).
Using the discount code EternalRose gives Podcast On Fire Network listeners 10% off at checkout on shop.terracottadistribution.com.
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.
Show Links: Read More
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Before there was a completed and released Ashes Of Time, pretty much everyone that ended up being associated with it made something very silly: 1993’s The Eagle Shooting Heroes.
Running times:
00m 00s – Intro/The Eagle Shooting Heroes production background, box office, reception, missing footage.
26m 22s – The Eagle Shooting Heroes 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).
Using the discount code Eternal Rose gives Podcast On Fire Network listeners 10% off at checkout on shop.terracottadistribution.com.
Show Links: Read More
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Michael Wong is the genie of the pearls.
Click to play in web-browser (to download right click and save)
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!