Happy 2nd Birthday Podcast On Fire! We celebrate by bringing in awesome guests James Aylmore, Paul Loudon and actual girls. Don’t expert any scholar-like insights or expert opinions this week but a whole lotta fun… mostly live over the phone by the end.
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Plot: When rapidly approaching his 30th birthday under-achieving prankster Teruo (Yosiyosi Arakawa) shows aspiration of building the ultimate Haunted House one day. Although his dream plan grinds to a stop when his ill father suddenly disappears leaving him in-charge of the families second hand bookshop.
Teruo’s childhood friend Hisanobu (Yoshinori Okada) helps him out by introducing him to a lovely and very accident prone young artist Akari (Yoshino Kimura). Akari works with Teruo in the shop, soon Tersuo finds himself falling for Akari and he discovers that Hisanobu has very strong feelings for our artist.
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Our friend Adam Torel brings the news of more great releases from his Third Window Films label.
Releases for May 11th
Releases for June 8th
As you can expect, you can find Third Window Films in most retailers and online! The Play.com links are up for both Funuke & Fine. Support the Third Window! Go on!
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!