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Japanese money, manga adaptation merged with Nam Nai-choi… find out how these Yuen Biao vehicles fare under the watchful eye of the profile chosen for this Director’s Series. Anime exposure, Yuen Biao, Gloria Yip and Genie-discussion guaranteed. Click link or image to access the show!
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Podcast On Fire 131: Over The Rainbow, Under The Skirt
From the backlog of backup shows as we’re all doing something else this week, Kenny B and Hong Kong Dave continue their coverage of the “Banana Ripening” series started in episode 127 with their review of Yesteryou, Yesterme, Yesterday. This episode the sequel Over The Rainbow, Under The Skirt (1994) gets its due as Bo grows, possibly will get laid, learns lessons thanks to being a prick and tragedy strikes. Click image or link below to access the show!
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Taiwan Noir 2 + Podcast On Fire 128!
Kenny B along with special guest and hopefully future co-host John Charles hit a key movie in the wave of Taiwanese social realism: Wang Chu-chin’s On The Society File Of Shanghai (1981). The movie that also gave Taiwanese cinema Liu Hsiao-fen (depicted above). Also featuring a Last Taiwanese Movies Watched-segment that gives you heroic goreshed and Long Wolf And Cub…Taiwanese style!
Taiwan Noir 2: On The Society File Of ShanghaiAfter a well received trial run, Tom On Fire returns with Kenny B and Tom K-W discussing Hong Kong cinema post-Handover and validness of home video format such as Blu Ray, dvd and laserdisc. Also included are network updates recapping this past week that included THREE podcasts including this one, fan mail, Tom’s views on Little Big Soldier, A Better Tomorrow 3 and more.
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This Week In Sleaze 8: Raped By An Angel
Two men, a striking English tite and a view from both the Hong Kong and Taiwan side, for this episode Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal absorb all that is Andrew Lau’s Raped By An Angel. Click image or link below to hear the show.
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Podcast on Fire 127: Yesteryou, Yesterme, Yesterday
With life, rock fesitvals and Hong Kong trips out of the way, Kenny B and Hong Kong Dave sits town for a Hong Kong trip recap, take a trip down giallo memory lane before taking in the full nostalgia reviewing Samson Chiu’s Hong Kong The Wonder Years, aka Yesteryou, Yesterme, Yesterday. Click image or link below to hear the show!
Ken’s note: I id’d the show as episode 126, it’s in fact as stated in the show post 127.
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Two Fisted Podcast 1: Hong Kong Godfather (SHOW DEBUT)
Ideal females The Ninjasquid and achillesgirl discuss Wang Lung Wei’s 1985 bloody triad film Hong Kong Godfather in the debut episode of Two Fisted Podcast! Highlights include Ninjasquid’s special recipe for the “Hong Kong Godfather” cocktail, a short pre-Shaw biography of Wang Lung Wei, his career, an hommage à Shum Wai, an email interview with Wayne Archer, and a “Learn Movie Cantonese!” segment with Frank Djeng (frankdjeng at yahoo.com) ! Sex, violence and hilarity ensues. Also see the Hong Kong Godfather companion blogpost. Click image or link below to hear the show!
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The Director’s Series 5: Nam Nai-choi – Her Vengeance + BONUS episode!
Nam Nai-choi turns to the next chapter and stops firmly and hard at female revenge. Therefore Kenny Be and Hong Kong Dave review 1988′s Her Vengeance, starring Pauline Wong and Lam Ching-Ying. Also featuring discussion, loose theories and facts about its rather extensive censorship history. Click link or image below to hear the show!
The Director’s Series 5: Nam Nai-choi – Her VengeanceBONUS!
The extension of The Director’s Series 5: Nam Nai-choi – Her Vengeance, in this bonus episode we talk of Ho Meng-hua’s Shaw Brothers rape/revenge movie The Kiss Of Death (1973) that Her Vengeance was a remake of.Click link or image below to hear the show!
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Podcast On Fire 125: Tom On Fire AKA Come On, Let’s Make Happy
The regular network updates and last movies watched quickly give way to a Tom K-W initiative…essentially a Tom On Fire section of Podcast On Fire and with Kenny B the discussion (bring your smoking jackets) is taken to place concerning subtitles for Hong Kong movies, distribution, reviewers, availability of movies, collecting mentality and the pro’s and con’s of today’s age of involving all of those aspects. Come On, Let’s Make Happy. Tits And Balls. Stay till the very end too, listeners. Click image or link below to hear the show!
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Podcast On Fire 124: A Better Tomorrow (2010)
Phil G returns and brings to Kenny B and Hong Kong Dave the Korean remake of John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow. At 2 hours, how does it fare and can you avoid comparing it to Woo’s original? Also network updates, talks of Takashi Miike’s Harakiri, The Prodigal Son and the last 15 years of Chow Yun-fat’s career. Ken also snorts coke. Click image below or link to hear the show.
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Taiwan Noir 1: Taiwan Black Movies – SHOW DEBUT!
The debut of our Taiwanese cinema show, Kenny B explains his fandom-angle when it comes to Taiwan and Hou Chi-Jan’s documentary, that acted as an introduction and illumination of a forgotten era of cinema, is reveiwed and discussed. Click image below or link to hear the show!