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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!

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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!

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English

Episodes

This Week In Sleaze 68: Kidnap Of Wong Chak Fai

5/27/2023
True life Hong Kong crime on film is a staple of Category III film but often in a grisly manner. Serial killers, rapists, cannibalism, that sort of thing. But crime comes in different forms and in this episode we take a look at the kidnapping case of businessman Teddy Wang. A story adapted into a […]

Duration:01:32:15

Podcast On Fire 332: The Dragon Tamers & Princess Chang Ping

5/6/2023
After unleashing a violent basher on us in the form of The Young Dragons, John Woo is assigned to Korea to make further, sometimes naked kung-fu as The Dragon Tamers. Also, you know they say John Woo’s films are like bullet opera, like ballet? Well how about an actual opera? Examining 1976’s Princess Chang Ping, […]

Duration:01:42:43

Podcast On Fire 331: On The Wrong Track

4/15/2023
Youth gone wild at Shaw Brothers, with Andy Lau and from the director of Naked Killer. With Kenny B and Paul Fox. 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/Clarence Fok biography 24m 50s […]

Duration:01:14:26

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

3/25/2023
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. […]

Duration:01:36:13

What’s Korean Cinema? 60 – Il Mare

3/4/2023
Before there was a sassy girl, the ever so luminous Jun Ji-hyun starred in Il Mare, about a mailbox that is a portal to two years earlier. Going back to Korean cinema in the year 2000, with Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/reception/on Jun Ji-hyun 28m 25s […]

Duration:01:18:17

The Director’s Series 37: Johnny Wang – City Warriors & Bloody Brotherhood

2/18/2023
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. […]

Duration:01:37:52

Podcast On Fire 329: Magic Crystal (with special guest Richard Norton)

1/28/2023
Wong Jing makes his Wong Jing film, which means he steals from all other films but he lets his action director be the star of the show as well, in Magic Crystal from 1986. Also, actor Richard Norton goes down Magic Crystal memory lane in an extended conversation mid-episode. With Kenny B and Paul Fox […]

Duration:02:00:34

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

1/14/2023
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 […]

Duration:01:24:03

Podcast On Fire 327: 2022 Christmas Special

12/23/2022
It’s the annual Podcast On Fire holiday extravaganza! Listen in as our various hosts compete to win money, money, money, in the Spectacular, super-colossal Christmas trivia-display contest! (Beagles need not apply). That’s right, Phil G of Eastern Film Fans, Tom K-W (of The Lager Logs) and PoF’s very own Kenny B, take the hot seats […]

Duration:01:16:41

This Week In Sleaze 67: Naked Poison 1 & 2

12/12/2022
A horny underdog battles back with a date rape drug in Naked Poison from 2000. And from Matrix Productions and director Batman Hung, we get a shot on video, softcore porn rendition of Christopher Nolan’s Memento. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on […]

Duration:01:46:16

Podcast On Fire 326: The Iron Fisted Monk & Carry On Pickpocket

11/27/2022
After setting a tone for martial arts choreography in the 70s, Sammo Hung continued to do so as a director and it starts with 1977’s The Iron Fisted Monk. We then jump forward to 1982’s Carry On Pickpocket and into the modern age where Sammo’s stamp on action finds its place. With Kenny B and […]

Duration:02:02:50

Podcast On Fire 325: The Head Hunter

11/12/2022
Chow Yun-fat as an assassin with a conscience falls in love with a girl, is hunted by another assassin… this does sound familiar but this is from 1982 and it’s called The Head Hunter. With Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen West Screen podcast. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, […]

Duration:01:17:06

Podcast On Fire 324: The Story Of Woo Viet

10/28/2022
Chow Yun-fat appears in one of his first dramatic roles, for emerging director Ann Hui. 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. Running Times: 00m 00s – […]

Duration:01:28:57

This Week In Sleaze 66: Tightie Whitie Theatre – Hong Kong Gigolo & The Sleep Curse

10/15/2022
The glamorous and punishing world of gigolos. From the director of P Storm. Also, the last gory hurrah for the team of Herman Yau and Anthony Wong. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Johsua Regal. 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 […]

Duration:01:51:38

What’s Korean Cinema? 59 – Tell Me Something

9/24/2022
Dressed up as Silence Of The Lambs and Se7en through grim findings of body parts and constant rain, Korean cinema of 1999 heads into the serial killer film with Tell Me Something. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/reception. 25m 30s – Director Chang Hoon-yun’s films. 28m […]

Podcast On Fire 323: Final Justice & Dragon Fight

9/10/2022
Stephen Chow enters the big boy film industry and promptly wins an award. And he’s not even funny, in 1988’s Final Justice alongside the man who plays cops: Danny Lee. Also, Stephen Chow goes to America with Jet Li, Dick Wei, and future Mrs. Jet Li to make Hong Kong action cinema noise on the […]

The Director’s Series 36: Johnny Wang – The Innocent Interloper & Fury

8/20/2022
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 […]

What’s Korean Cinema? 58 – Art Museum By The Zoo

8/6/2022
Multiple romance stories are being gradually told. One for us. One by and before the characters in 1998’s Art Museum By The Zoo. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/reception/on director Lee Jeong-hyang. 26m 58s – Shum Eun-ha biography and discussion. 37m 39s – The remaining films […]

Podcast On Fire 322: The Enigmatic Case & Seven Years Itch

7/16/2022
Johnnie To makes his first and second film. Neither are called or are like The Mission. From 1980 we find the martial arts mystery film The Enigmatic Case and writer/producer/star Raymond Wong has To call action and cut for his marital farce Seven Years Itch. With Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen […]

Duration:01:29:18

Podcast On Fire 321: The Wicked City

7/2/2022
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 […]

Duration:00:58:47

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