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 – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

John Woo comes out swinging and kicking for his debut feature, 1973’s The Young Dragons, with Jackie Chan as his action director. With Kenny B and Paul Fox of the East Screen West Screen podcast. Running times: 00m 00s – Intro/The Young Dragons background. 11m 51s – The Young Dragons review. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire […]

Before there was a completed and released Ashes Of Time, pretty much everyone that ended up being associated with it made something very silly: 1993’s The Eagle Shooting Heroes. Running times: 00m 00s – Intro/The Eagle Shooting Heroes production background, box office, reception, missing footage. 26m 22s – The Eagle Shooting Heroes review. Contact the show […]

When Wong Kar-wai does a Wuxia film, things get introspective and blurry. Joining Kenny B to discuss Ashes Of Time is Paul Fox and Kevin Ma of the East Screen West Screen podcast. Running times: 00m 00s – Intro/Jin Yong biography and discussion. 34m 35s – Ashes of Time production background, box office, awards, the […]