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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A hard kicking and hard punching martial arts action actor takes the leap to hard kicking and hard punching storyteller.  With Kenny B and Tom K-W. 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. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/Johnny Wang biography. 17m 52s – This […]

Joey Wong was in a softcore porn film. Taiwan and Hong Kong and art and pornography collide. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua 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 of Brian Kirby. Show Links: This Week In Sleaze on […]

Shifty producers do shifty producer things to an old movie with Jackie Chan. All four versions of Master With Cracked Fingers examined! With Kenny B and Michael Scott of the Action For Everyone podcast. 00m 00s – Intro/The Cub Tiger From Kwangtung & Master With Cracked Fingers background. 44m 15s – The Cub Tiger From […]

Enterprising, forward thinking youths open a business because money is the future, right? Or is that love and friendship? Starring singers and untested actors, including Leon Lai, this is the opening episode of our examination of the films of one of the Four Heavenly Kings and it comes to you in the form of Clara […]

Tsui Hark enters the magical, mystical world of the Wuxia film and the magical world of film, making his debut with 1979’s The Butterfly Murders. With Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen West Screen podcast. Running times: 00m 00s – Intro/The Butterfly Murders background, on Tsui Hark’s early career, alternate versions etc. […]