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A remake of Bruce Lee’s classic Fist of Fury,  director Gordan Chan’s Fist of Legend, arriving to Hong Kong movie goers in 1994, softens the harder line of the original film’s patriotic fury yet loses none of its tremendous punch with martial art stars Jet Li, Billy Chow and Yasuaki Kurata all in top form.  Tune in for the full review!

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro + G-Fest ’25 report, Return of Ultraman, Combattler V, Naruto manga, The Water Margin

[52:17] Review – Fist of Legend

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A disturbing peek into the dark underbelly of a small American town, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet (1986), with his signature flourishes of dream like logic, penchant for the psychological, and a plot pulled straight from the pages of a tattered noir paperback, tells the story of Jeffrey (Kyle McLachLan), a bored young man, who in his search for clues about a mysterious missing ear, perilously descends bit by tantalizing bit into a dangerous and forbidden underworld with a dark allure that simultaneously thrills and repulses him. Tune in for the full review!

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro + Naruto, Hunter x Hunter, Godzilla Masterpiece Theater, Seven Samurai, Magnificent Seven, A Bride’s Story, Lazarus

[40:55] Review – Blue Velvet

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Join us for a master class in action comedy as we take a look at Yuen Woo Ping’s Drunken Master (1978).  Jackie Chan, in the role that would launch him into stardom, plays the young and impetuous Wong Fei-Hung, who, after being kicked out of his house by his angry father, is forced under the tutelage of an old, perpetually intoxicated, martial arts master (Sui-Tin Yuen) to learn the unorthodox fighting style known as Drunken Boxing, which Wong will soon require to defeat a deadly assassin (Jang Lee Hwang ) targeting his father.  Tune in for the full review!

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro + Zardoz, Anne Shirley, Bocchi the Rock!, From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman

[32:20] Review – Drunken Master

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A blind piano player accidentally gets caught up in a world of crime in Andhadhun, an Indian thriller by writer/director Sriram Raghavan that’s loaded with so many twists and turns that the only thing that comes as no surprise is that it became both a critical and commercial hit with audiences.  Tune in to hear our review!

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro + Mickey 17, Combattler V, Tatami Time Machine Blues, Ranma 1/2, Orguss, Frieren

[38:50] Review – Andhadhun

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BLT Team B return with a look at the comedy /  horror sequel House II: The Second Story (1987) from director Ethan Wiley.

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We review Jin-Roh director Hiroyuki Okiura’s second animated film, A Letter to Momo, about a young girl that forms an unlikely friendship with a trio of troublesome yokai who through a series of comical misadventures help her to cope with the loss of her father.   Released in 2011 after seven years in production, and to seemingly little fanfare on this side of the Pacific, this underrated family film, equal parts charming, comic, and heartfelt, deserves another look.  Tune in for the full review!

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro + Macross, Street Fighter 6, Gaogaigar, Combattler V, Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, and Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

[43:30] Review – A Letter to Momo

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We review Hong Kong director Ringo Lam’s Burning Paradise.  The film stars Willie Chi as legendary martial artist Fong Sai Yuk, who after being captured by the Ching government, must escape from the imposing Red Lotus Temple, a deadly prison filled with spike pits, booby traps, poison gas, and even more dangerous opponents!

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro + God Mazinger, Combattler V, DanDaDan, Kageki Shojo, Akane Banashi, Hyper Dimension Neptunia, and The Water Margin.

[39:41] Review – Burning Paradise

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As a chaser shot to our last episode about the North Korean Kaiju movie Pulgasari, BLT Team B have heroically taken it upon themselves to review the much unloved North American remake Galgameth!

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We’re kicking off the new year with a review of the North Korean monster movie, Pulgasari (1985), in which a Godzilla like creature from Korean folklore fights with a peasant army to topple a corrupt feudal regime.  We also recount the far more fascinating story of the film’s production, a stranger than fiction tale involving international kidnappings, daring escape attempts, and dictator Kim Jong-Il’s bizarre quest to bolster the North Korean film industry.

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro + Hakaider, Garo, and Flip Flappers

[24:45] Review – Pulgasari

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We review the first film in the long running exploitation series, Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972), featuring the talented and beautiful Meiko Kaji in one of her most iconic roles as Scorpion, a steely eyed avenging angel hellbent on revenge against those that wronged her.  Be they crooked cops,  sleazy yakuza, abusive prison guards, or fellow inmates, she’ll slay them all!

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro + Mononoke, Discotek announcements, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms game discussion.

[30:30] Review – Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

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