Samm and John are about to embark on a long series covering the first few decades of the career of a Hong Kong legend: Wong Jing. Producer, director, writer, actor, and professional hater, Jing helped shape Hong Kong cinema in the ’80s and ’90s. In this first episode in the series, we’re diving in to his early work as a screenwriter on martial arts classics like Magnificent Butcher (1979), Dreadnaught (1981), and The Prodigal Son (1981), and then we discuss his first few action films as a director with Shaw Brothers: his wonderful gambling comedies Challenge of the Gamesters (1981) and Winner Takes All (1982), and the explosive Mercenaries from Hong Kong (1982), an important influence on the emerging heroic bloodshed subgenre.

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Perverse Permission is back with the second part of Samm and John’s discussion of Japanese pink films and the Angel Guts seres, based on Takashi Ishii’s manga of the same name. The first episode covered the first four films in the series and this continues with Angel Guts: Red Vertigo (1988) and Angel Guts: Red Flash (1994), both directed by Ishii himself, and two unofficial though no less incredible entries in the series, Hiroyuki Nasu’s Rouge (1984) and Junichi Suzuki’s Red Rope Until I Die (1987). Again, these are films that deal explicitly with sexual violence, though they bridge the worlds of exploitation movies and art house cinema through their transcendent explorations of trauma, desire, and fantasy.

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