The Director’s Series 39: Johnny Wang – Angry Ranger
Johnny Wang makes his 8th film and proceeds to hurt the Jackie Chan’s Stuntmen Association. With Kenny B and Tom K-W. Read More
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The Director’s Series 38: Johnny Wang – Widow Warriors
Johnny Wang brings us widows with guns. With Kenny B and Tom K-W. Read More
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The Director’s Series 37: Johnny Wang – City Warriors & Bloody Brotherhood
Johnny Wang’s characters turn into sadistic animals so it’s easy to know who to hate and who to root for. Also, Andy Lau joins the violent, cinematic universe of Johnny Wang’s and promptly earns him a little bit more money at the box office. Slicing and dicing coming up. With Kenny B and Tom K-W. Read More
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The Director’s Series 36: Johnny Wang – The Innocent Interloper & Fury
After two bloody outings in 1985 at Shaw Brothers, including a shaky mixture of comedy combined with grave violence, Johnny Wang attempts to address the balance by keeping matters light, hard but not brutally gory. Flash forward to the movie after where he starts hurting people again using the heroic bloodshed template. With Kenny B & Tom K-W.
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Running Times:
00m 00s – Intro/The Innocent Interloper cast notes and box office.
13m 50s – The Innocent Interloper review.
38m 58s – Fury box office.
41m 58s – Fury review.
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The Director’s Series 35: Johnny Wang – This Man Is Dangerous & Hong Kong Godfather
A hard kicking and hard punching martial arts action actor takes the leap to hard kicking and hard punching storyteller. With Kenny B and Tom K-W.
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Running Times:
00m 00s – Intro/Johnny Wang biography.
17m 52s – This Man Is Dangerous reception.
21m 30s – This Man Is Dangerous review.
46m 00s – Hong Kong Godfather reception.
49m 24s – Hong Kong Godfather review.
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The Director’s Series 10: Kirk Wong – Flash Future Kung Fu
A good director’s output could/should come off as versatile, refusing to be slotted into the expected and easily sorted folder. It seems Kirk Wong after opening more traditionally with The Club thought like this as evident in his horror-comedy Lifeline Express that we covered last episode. But we track back to movie number two, the special mind/genre-bender Flash Future Kung Fu from 1983 for this second installment of The Director’s Series on Kirk Wong. Joining Kenny B and Tom K-W and Sylvia Rorem of The Heroic Sisterhood – The Ladies’ Asian Action Cinema Appreciation Society to discuss what’s left of Kirk’s multi-nominated vision of the future.
Thanks to Henrik Andersson for help with cleaning up the audio!
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Running Times:
14m 10s – Johnny Wang bio/discussion
27m 05s – Eddy Ko bio/discussion
35m 10s – Ray Lui bio/discussion
52m 18s – Flash Future Kung Fu review
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This Week In Sleaze 6: Double Bill – Escape From Brothel & Robotrix
King Who? has officially retired for the moment (but we’ll be keeping the intro in honor) after a bizarre gardening accident involving tightie whities but Sleazy K has found another person with rape in his prime vocabulary: Great Lord Josh Regal! Actually it’s Josh from our friends at VCinema who joins K for the awaited double bill review of Johnny Wang’s Escape from Brothel and Jamie Luk’s Robotrix. You watch Billy Chow rape some stuff and then come back to our discussion!
Ken’s note: The show is id’d as episode 5 when it’s in fact episode 6. Pardon me.
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