Podcast On Fire 331: On The Wrong Track
Youth gone wild at Shaw Brothers, with Andy Lau and from the director of Naked Killer. With Kenny B and Paul Fox. Read More
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Tag: Drama
Podcast On Fire 330: Comrades, Almost A Love Story & Moonlight In Tokyo
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
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What’s Korean Cinema? 60 – Il Mare
Before there was a sassy girl, the ever so luminous Jun Ji-hyun starred in Il Mare, about a mailbox that is a portal to two years earlier. Going back to Korean cinema in the year 2000, with Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Read More
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Podcast On Fire 324: The Story Of Woo Viet
Chow Yun-fat appears in one of his first dramatic roles, for emerging director Ann Hui. With Kenny B and Kevin Ma of the East Screen West Screen podcast. Read More
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Podcast On Fire 319: Fruit Punch
Enterprising, forward thinking youths open a business because money is the future, right? Or is that love and friendship? Starring singers and untested actors, including Leon Lai, this is the opening episode of our examination of the films of one of the Four Heavenly Kings and it comes to you in the form of Clara Law’s 1991 film Fruit Punch.
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Running Times:
00m 00s – Intro/Leon Lai biography.
23m 08s – Clara Law biography.
37m 00s – Fruit Punch review
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Podcast On Fire Network Bonus Episode 60: Members Only Archive Dusted #25 – Shinjuku Incident
A specially produced bonus episode for Podcast On Fire 82 (previously only available in our members only section of the forum) from 2010, Jackie Chan’s Japan-set gangster drama directed by Derek Yee is discussed by Stoo and Kenny B.
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Podcast On Fire Network Bonus Episode 59: In Harm’s Way (aka The Chinese Widow, aka The Hidden Soldier)
The internet said Mabel Cheung co-wrote this Chinese war romance directed by a Danish filmmaker and starring the girl who would be Mulan. Turns out the internet was wrong but we chatted about the film with at least three titles anyway.
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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!