Vincent Zhao and Sammo Hung take on Japanese pirates led by Yasuaki Kurata in Gordon Chan’s Mainland epic God Of War. With Kenny B who also speaks about Police Story on VHS, romantic anime and Donnie Yen’s Kung Fu Jungle. 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 […]

Adding to the list of Category III movies about making Category III movies, only one of our movies this week cover this criteria but they are connected! 1976’s Confession Of A Concubine is a fairly obscure period erotica with elements later seen in A Chinese Torture Chamber Story but the true connection to 1976 is […]

The End. 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 . Intro music created by JAKAZiD. Show Links: The Golden Ninja Podcast at Stitcher sogoodreviews.com Sleazy K’s Video Neon Harbor – Site, Twitter, Facebook Golden Ninja Warrior Chronicles Buy the book Golden Ninja Operation by Jesús Manuel Pérez Molina Mission Thunderbolt – […]

We go back and examine Tsui Hark’s groundbreaking special effects extravaganza Zu: Warriors From The Magic Mountain to see whether its Chinese roots mixed with Western special effects knowhow still has a place in Hong Kong cinema history and Sammo Hung reverses kung fu comedy tropes while also making his characters rage and beat the […]

Let’s talk a fucking rip-off! The Untold Story was hot and made ripples, including during awards season, so a set of makers decided to do their own Bunman. Clearly having trouble coming up with an English title that would evoke Herman Yau’s film, what they settled on was The Unpublizeable File. Also, an erotic journey […]

How do you get good critical notices and audience-appeal working the crowded zombie genre? Well, you make a good one. That’s what Yeon Sang-ho did with 2016’s Train To Busan. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times:  00m 00s – Yeon Sang-ho biography & discussion 33m 25s – Train To Busan review Contact the […]

We talk of a director and his last movie before passing away at a young age. But we also talk of a director that was so revered and still is so we’ll have a meaty bio and discussion about what made Lee Man-hee so admired as well as reviewing his last movie The Road To […]

Director Ding Sheng goes for a third collaboration with star Jackie Chan after a period effort/buddy comedy/road movie with a heart in the form of Little Big Soldier and the hostage drama Police Story 2013. So for heist shenanigans in war times in the form of Railroad Tigers, is the duo going to be 3 […]

Welcome to the conclusion of Melodrama Season and while there’s still terminal disease in the air, one director tries to nurse his character back to life again in a different way and proves that even though he’s dead, Louis Koo will get third billing. That and more in our review and discussion of Derek Yee’s […]

For the second installment of Melodrama Season, we review another terminal disease-movie. But what happens when you structure it around finding the strength and will to live surrounded by a genuinely life-affirming atmos… well you get Joe Ma’s Funeral March from 2001. Starring one of the Twins. Also Michael Hui gets cancer meets Sidney Lumet’s […]