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Continuing our look at when the Wuxia film went Category III, in this episode we talk Slave Of The Sword. From the director of Fantasy Mission Force. With Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal...

http://podcastonfire.com/2023/11/this-week-in-sleaze-70-slave-of-the-sword/

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 googlem...

http://podcastonfire.com/2022/05/this-week-in-sleaze-65-ming-ghost-vs-little-woman/

Together with Kenny B, Phil G, Paul Fox and David Lam, Tom K-W hosts another Asian cinema trivia night as we say goodbye to the strange year that was 2020. Artwork courtesy of David Lam. Contact ...

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Let’s talk fucking Mind Fuck… again! First it was a podcast, then a bonus episode and now the most reviewed movie on This Week In Sleaze is getting an audio commentary. Available both as a po...

http://podcastonfire.com/2020/08/this-week-in-sleaze-61-commentary-on-fire-15-mind-fuck/

Kung-fu makes a splash in America via Bruce Lee, via King Boxer but a Taiwanese Wuxia from 1971 unexpectedly dazzled audiences as well. Armed with an array of deadly kung fu killers and a promoti...

http://podcastonfire.com/2020/05/taiwan-noir-31-fearless-fighters-dynasty/

The director of Fantasy Mission Force scales down the genre bending and time warp madness and goes for a stripped down, broad comedy about a treasure hunt highlighted by frequent action choreogra...

http://podcastonfire.com/2019/11/taiwan-noir-30-a-book-of-heroes-a-heroic-fight/

Consisting of outtakes and deleted material (previously only available to forum members) out of Podcast On Fire 76 with Kenny B, and Brian Kirby from 2010. This collection feature tangents and ou...

http://podcastonfire.com/2019/06/podcast-on-fire-network-bonus-episode-47-members-only-archive-dusted-21/

Just before The Child of Peach, actress Lin Shao-Lu got to try out playing a boy with magical powers in Lee Tso-Nam’s Kung Fu Wonder Child. Bring out your Taiwanese bingo card, this one will ha...

http://podcastonfire.com/2019/05/taiwan-noir-29-kung-fu-wonder-child-the-legend-of-all-men-are-brothers/

After proving he could generate box office via his American action movie debut Hard Target, John Woo delivered 1996’s Broken Arrow. Also, a little swordplay movie from a Taiwanese director won ...

http://podcastonfire.com/2019/03/podcast-on-fire-278-broken-arrow-crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon/

Consisting of outtakes and deleted material (previously only available to forum members) out of Japan On Fire 6 – 8 with Kenny B, Brian Kirby, Ron Strong and August Ragone from 2010, this colle...

http://podcastonfire.com/2019/02/podcast-on-fire-network-bonus-episode-43-members-only-archive-dusted-18/

Taiwan filmmakers bring to life the manga and anime sensation Dragon Ball as Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins and we also review Chu Yen-ping’s Dirty Dozen style adventure with mahjong playing hop...

http://podcastonfire.com/2018/10/taiwan-noir-28-dragon-ball-the-magic-begins-fantasy-mission-force/

Taiwan responds to the success of Hong Kong’s Mr. Vampire in the form of Hello Dracula*, courtesy of the director of The Child Of Peach, Also, Todd brings us The 36 Shaolin Beads (aka The Gloom...

http://podcastonfire.com/2018/07/taiwan-noir-27-hello-dracula-the-36-shaolin-beads/

In 2001, BMW released a series of short films for the internet starring Clive Owen. Showcasing their chosen models of cars but also giving said directors the freedom to inject their style and voi...

http://podcastonfire.com/2018/05/podcast-on-fire-263-the-hire-season-1/

Legendary director Chang Cheh gets actors he worked with across the decades together for a Super Smash (Shaw) Brothers style time in The Shanghai Thirteen and he crafts a Wuxia pian fantasy with...

http://podcastonfire.com/2018/01/taiwan-noir-26-the-nine-demons-the-shanghai-thirteen/

Let’s talk some not Christmas cheer, not even fucking-cheer but castration-cheer! You make the food, cut your meat, use your knives, maybe scissors in some instance and then you come to the rea...

http://podcastonfire.com/2017/12/this-week-in-sleaze-53-tightie-whitie-theatre-another-piece-of-romance-picking-up-girls/

Mind Fuck, its hardcore porn (and to a degree softcore) gets re-reviewed. There’s little to no good explanation why. Click to play in web-browser (to download right click and save)

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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 fe...

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A dramatic attempt to steal the the golden ninja warrior. Women fighting each other in scenes of breathtaking violence. A gang of bloodthirsty thieves tries to outdo the forces of justice. Ninja ...

http://podcastonfire.com/2017/07/the-golden-ninja-podcast-15-golden-ninja-warrior-death-code-ninja/

Jimmy Wang Yu dones the One Armed Boxer persona again and takes on the blind master of the flying guillotine IN… Master Of The Flying Guillotine. We’ll also be talking about The Shaolin Invi...

http://podcastonfire.com/2017/06/taiwan-noir-25-master-of-the-flying-guillotine-the-shaolin-invincibles/

A dynamic, action packed thriller pitting an innocent man against a blood sucking witch. A gang of wizard warriors fight their way out of the witch’s desperate plan. A gripping story of interna...

http://podcastonfire.com/2017/03/the-golden-ninja-podcast-14-scorpion-thunderbolt-clash-of-the-ninjas/

Once upon a time there was a big forest and in it sat two podcasters. One found a movie based on a fairy tale about deers fighting wolves (and there’s also exotic dancing) and the other found a...

http://podcastonfire.com/2016/10/taiwan-noir-23-the-fantasy-of-deer-warrior-double-vision/

For once, we’re talking AVAILABLE Taiwanese cinema. It can be prolific, important aaaaand promptly lost. But since it has been part of the discussion, somewhat available before but now to the ...

http://podcastonfire.com/2016/05/taiwan-noir-22-dragon-inn/

The master holds the secret to open the doors of hell! The horror of science gone wrong! A power hungry maniac starts a chain of events that almost destroys the world! Contact the show via email ...

http://podcastonfire.com/2016/04/the-golden-ninja-podcast-11-thunder-of-gigantic-serpent-kickboxer-from-hell/

We return to the universe of Peach Boy, as played by a woman, as portrayed by Taiwanese children’s fantasy filmmakers who knew a thing or two about pace, energy, special effects free for all cr...

http://podcastonfire.com/2016/03/taiwan-noir-21-magic-of-spell-magic-warriors/

Grabbing an icon from Japanese folklore and putting a Taiwan reefer madness spin on it, this is the type of fantasy with exploding heads, tiny cocks and dangerous fire stunts filmmakers gave to t...

http://podcastonfire.com/2015/12/taiwan-noir-20-the-child-of-peach/

Double crossing, doubt and destruction wreck havoc on innocent lives. An evil ninja challenges a righteous ninja. One man takes on a whole gang. He’s no ordinary man. Contact the show via email...

http://podcastonfire.com/2015/09/the-golden-ninja-podcast-8-ninja-the-protector-majestic-thunderbolt/

Well, well, well… we’ve reached episode 200 and thank you for listening and supporting the show! We came up with an innovative idea for the celebration: WE’RE GONNA REVIEW MOVIES!  With Ke...

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The tale of a Chinese protection deity isn’t as dry as it may sound as the story has cinematic colours galore so we’re taking a look at one such literary adaptation from Taiwan: Feng Shen Ban...

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General Guan Yu battles aliens from Mars. Interested yet? This slowly more widespread 1976 movie The Big Calamity (aka War God) is an event unlike any other from Taiwan. An event that sparks gidd...

http://podcastonfire.com/2015/08/taiwan-noir-18-the-big-calamity/

Taiwanese heroic gore-shed time and welcome gain to the wonderful world of Taiwan movie buff and expert at putting entire scenes or entire movies in his movies: Chu Yen-ping. This episode, we tal...

http://podcastonfire.com/2015/04/taiwan-noir-17-requital-hunting-list/

Because we had fun discussing colourful Wuxia pian last time (when The Ghost Hill was reviewed), we jump ahead a decade to Night Orchid by Chang Peng-yi, starring Adam Cheng and Brigitte Lin. Mem...

http://podcastonfire.com/2014/12/taiwan-noir-16-night-orchid-the-greatest-plot/

It’s time Taiwan Noir took a step back to Taiwan cinema swordplay or Wuxia pian. They had some juice, some fuel that could stack up with what Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest were doing despit...

http://podcastonfire.com/2014/10/taiwan-noir-15-the-ghost-hill-the-fly-dragon-mountain/

Ninja double bill! Elsa Yeung! Chen Kuan-tai! Taiwan reefer madness! No intro! Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group (NEW) or...

http://podcastonfire.com/2014/08/taiwan-noir-14-challenge-of-the-lady-ninja-a-life-of-ninja/

For this series, we aim to go through the different phases at IFD, from the phase were ninjas were popular, to ones where they tried out kickboxing tint to their cut and paste movies and created ...

http://podcastonfire.com/2014/07/the-golden-ninja-podcast-2-diamond-ninja-force-ninja-commandments/

Tonight in the Tightie Whitie Theater, Sleazy K and The Great Lord Joshua Regal skip past both Category I, Category II AND Category III and into XXX territory as real sex center stage in the disc...

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Checking in with Tom Kent-Williams to see if he survived the unearthed horrors of The Audition Tapes and his debut on Commentary On Fire, him and Ken also go over Takeshi Kitano’s Outrage and f...

http://podcastonfire.com/2011/12/podcast-on-fire-104-taiwanese-kids-outrage/

The next Cast From The Past (a series of shows lost from our iTunes feed and website) from 2008 features Ken only. As part of the 1 year celebration and in honor of Stoo’s solo episode that sta...

http://podcastonfire.com/2008/12/cast-from-the-past-podcast-on-fire-32-1-the-calamity-of-ken/

The next Cast From The Past (a series of shows lost from our iTunes feed and website) from 2007 features Stoo, Ken, and Mike Banner. Discussing entertainment value of Hong Kong movies then and no...

http://podcastonfire.com/2008/12/cast-from-the-past-podcast-on-fire-7-gotta-catch-em-all-shaw-brothers/