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Tag: Leon Lai

Podcast On Fire 330: Comrades, Almost A Love Story & Moonlight In Tokyo

25 March 2023 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire, (Leon) Lai or Bye 01:36:13 0 Comments

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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Podcast On Fire 328: Fun And Fury & With Or Without You

14 January 2023 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire, (Leon) Lai or Bye 01:24:03 0 Comments

After having no real action requirements placed on him in Fruit Punch and Wicked City, Leon Lai has to go to action-work in Frankie Chan’s Fun And Fury. Also, Leon and Jacky Cheung fight over the affection of Rosamund Kwan as cop and triad respectively in With Or Without You. With Kenny B and Phil G. Read More

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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.

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.

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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 319: Fruit Punch

16 April 2022 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire, (Leon) Lai or Bye 01:07:59 0 Comments

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.

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)

Running Times:

00m 00s – Intro/Leon Lai biography.
23m 08s – Clara Law biography.
37m 00s – Fruit Punch review

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The Director’s Series 31: Mabel Cheung & Alex Law – The Soong Sisters

29 August 2020 knetan PODCASTS, The Director's Series, Mabel Cheung & Alex Law 01:42:45 0 Comments

Mabel Cheung and Alex Law take their storytelling out of the current and small, intimate arenas of Hong Kong, China and New York and go for scope depicting three female political figures in Chinese history in The Soong Sisters. With Kenny B, Tom-K-W 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.

Running Times:
00m 00s – Intro/City Of Glass Quick-Take
29m 55s – Biographies of the real life Soong sister and production background of the movie.
53m 48s – The Soong Sisters review

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Podcast On Fire 282: My Life As McDull & Three: Going Home

8 June 2019 knetan PODCASTS, Podcast On Fire 01:42:11 0 Comments

It’s the screen debut of Hong Kong’s favourite, contemplative piglet who may not look like Chow Yun-fat or Tony Leung but has ambitions nonetheless in the 2001 animated movie My Life As McDull. Also Peter Chan returns to Hong Kong screens as part of the horror anthology movie Three, directing the award winning piece Going Home from 2002. With Kenny B and Kevin Ma 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 (briankirby.net) whose awesome clothing line you can find at shelflifeclothing.com.

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Podcast On Fire Network Bonus Episode 45: Members Only Archive Dusted #19

5 May 2019 knetan Bonus Episodes 0 Comments

Consisting of outtakes and deleted material (previously only available to forum members) out of Podcast On Fire 67, 68 and 72 with Kenny B, Stewart Sutherland and Mike Leeder from 2010, this collection feature tangents and outtakes on Michael Hui, Kill Bill, Yuen Woo-Ping’s Miracle Fighters, Ekin Cheng, Mike Leeder expands on the talk he did about True Legend on the main show and Stoo gets his 75th follower on Twitter.

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