Two weeks of Taiwan Noir, discussing special effects tinted Taiwanese cinema in the form of The Big Calamity and Feng Shen Bang as well as the big 200th episode of Podcast On Fire awaits you! Click the image below or the links in the prior sentence to access the shows.
The Dynasty Report is back, looking at sequels. Sequalized due to their quality or due to their box office? Paul Fox and Dr. Lam guides you through these two recent two’s. Click image or link below to access the show!
Podcast On Fire 199: The Dynasty Report – From Vegas To Macau II & Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2
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Sabu’s career is ongoing but we’re putting a cap on our coverage of it with this episode covering his 2013 black and white horror movie Miss Zombie. Click image or link below to access the show!
Japan On Fire 24: Sabu FINALE – Miss Zombie
Welcome back to our continued look at Japanese filmmaker Sabu. It’s been a wild, quirky, runny, drivy journey so far but things take a dark turn in Dead Run from 2005. Click image or link below to access the show!
Japan On Fire 21: Sabu – Dead Run
The wildman and acclaimed maker of chase movies with some very surreal and absurd humour continues his more thoughtful and humanistic streak as firmly explored in the dark Dead Run covered last episode and for this one, Kenny B and VCinema’s Coffin Jon will review Kanikosen. Featuring Sabu depicting a mutiny aboard a crab fishing ship, it’s a story that goes back decades and has a streak of real life darkness attached to it as well. Click image or link below to access the show!
Japan On Fire 22: Sabu – Kanikosen
Originally recorded as one long Japan On Fire 19, it is now re-edited into a shorter episode and this is the second half of the long recording that you first heard in episode 19. Kenny B and Coffin Jon takes you through the in’s and out’s of Sabu’s walky and calm Blessing Bell. Click image or link below to access the show!
Japan On Fire 20: Sabu – Blessing Bell
Originally recorded as one long Japan On Fire 19, it is now re-edited into a shorter episode and second half of the long recording will feature in Japan On Fire 20.
This is part 2 of our series on director Sabu after covering his first two movies Dangan Runner and Postman Blues in episode 18 of Japan On Fire. His characters ran and rode on bikes amidst droll, quirky and absurd humour as well as drama in the first two and not a lot changes as we look at Monday from 2000. Does Sabu still evolve though? Click the image or link below to access the show!
Japan On Fire 19: Sabu – Monday
Podcast On Fire may focus on the known and the big guns out of Hong Kong cinema, classics or not, but no one’s demanding the programming to be strict or they’ll tune out so for this episode, based on the suggestion of our guest, we switch it up and head to part of the Hollywood filmography of a Hong Kong director. Namely John Woo and his third outing in America from 1997 called Face/Off. For our second review, we’re following among other things an actor on top of his game but not quite ready to be embraced by the public. Still, didn’t stop awards juries from giving Chow Yun-fat accolades for his performance in Leung Po-chih’s 1984 war drama Hong Kong 1941. With Kenny B and special guest Dr. Stan Glick. Click image or link below to access the show!
Podcast On Fire 187: Face/Off & Hong Kong 1941
We are starting a new series on a particular figure out of Japanese cinema. I don’t know of many so I pick the ones I know and years ago I was recommended checking out the work of Sabu. I responded well, put down the fandom but now that there is a podcast series on Japanese cinema I’m involved in, it’s a good op to pick up where I left off/revisit what I liked in the first place. That is to setup that for a couple of episodes we’ll be talking of director Sabu and for this episode his first two movies: Dangan Runner from 1996 and Postman Blues from 1997. With me Kenny B and VCinema‘s Coffin Jon. Click image or link below to access the show.
Japan On Fire 18: Sabu – Dangan Runner & Postman Blues
