Podcast On Fire 97 - CITY ON FIRE special!

Still no THIS WEEK IN SLEAZE in sight but Sleazy K and I got together once again for a regular Podcast On Fire Episode 97.  But those looking for CAT III hijinx, don't fret.  I have a potty mouth and I use it!  It's our POF-COF show where we bs about the awesomeness that is CITY ON FIRE.  Nooooooo.  Not THAT CITY ON FIRE.  There's no Chow Yun-fat or Danny Lee in this episode.  But you will get talk-talk about Taiwanese Black Movies, Hwang Jang Lee and the wondrous IFD,  and the debut of the 'Hot Seat' where K puts me on the spot and grills me with life or death questions. 

Also debuting on this episode is Kingwho's? Clip of the Week.  You see, if you are cool and one of my Facebook chums, you would get to see all of the neato little clips I post.  I inundate your news feed with my silly nonsense and you have no damn choice but to like it!  Anyway, this week's clip is from the sorely underrated and mostly forgotten about action-comedy, BOGUS COPS from 1993.  Directed by and starring Beardy Kar-yan, this film also sports Eric Tsang Chi-wai acting like a horse's ass, AIDS humor (because AIDS is funny, don't ya know?) and the gosh dang drop dead gorgeous Veronica Yip Yuk-hing giving us a panty peek all the while vibrating as she sprays and prays with a big bad machine gun.  There's something for everyone!  Enjoy a little peek of BOGUS COPS, and Ronnie's panties, below.  See.  I keep it CAT III for you guys.  Listen to the goodness over @ the Podcast On Fire network.

Podcast On Fire + This Week In Sleaze = Commentary On Fire: RED TO KILL DVD COMMENTARY!

 RED TO KILL (1994)

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Is there a dirtier film in HK cinema that RED TO KILL?  Well, there might be something more sleazier out there starring Charlie Cho Cha-lee or Stuart Ong, but nothing matches the warped sensibilities of this Billy Tang Sing-hin's brutal rape-revenger from 1994. So, with that in mind, a DVD commentary was born.  RED TO KILL, though tough to look at, is very accessible and ripe for a cursory once over.  Joining Sleazy K and I is the Podcast On Fire Network's master squawker, Stoo, a newbie to films of this ilk.  Stoo was a RED TO KILL virgin as we started recording and afterwards made a beeline for the showers, hacking at his dirty pubes like Lily Chung Suk-wai and muttering to himself, "Dirty.  My parts are dirty.  Dirty.  Dirty.  Dirty."

As for me, this audio commentary was a first.  I am not one to listen to audio commentaries on special edition discs because, frankly speaking, I don't give a damn.  STOP TALKING OVER THE MOVIE YOU SELF IMPORTANT TURD!!!  Well, that is how I generally feel, and I went into the commentary with reservations.  Especially while choosing such a visually visceral film as RED TO KILL.  I didn't want to ruin the film while yakking over it.  To me it was the equivalent of an asshole in a movie theater whisper-shouting his commentary on every scene.  I want to punch that douche in the face and now, I was that douche!  But, I soldiered on and gave it a go and, for the most part, personally speaking, it went pretty well.  The commentary itself is solid.  But, more than once you can find me mumbling and bumbling like a fool as I was caught just watching the film (for the umpteenth time) and not giving the majority of my attention to the commentary banter.  It was a good time regardless and I would definitely be up for another one. 

You can listen to the commentary HERE, or if you are more adventurous, you can download the film + commentary HERE (It's an avi. file via Megaupload).  If you dig commentaries, check out the other babblers in the Podcast On Fire Networks audio commentary section HERE.   Commentaries include THE SEVENTH CURSE, KING OF COMEDY, MR. VAMPIRE 2, ISLAND ON FIRE, SCARED STIFF, EASTERN CONDORS, ENTER THE FAT DRAGON, and MISMATCHED COUPLES.  Enjoy and any feedback will be much appreciated.

Go ahead.  Give it a listen.  Or else Donnie will breakdance.

This Week In Sleaze Episode 5- Shaw Boobies! NSFW!!!

THIS WEEK IN SLEAZE 5- BOOBIE KNIGHTS!

Hey ya'll.  It's been a while but This Week In Sleaze is back up and at 'em!  Episode 5, our Shaw Boobies show has Sleazy K and I jibber jabberin' about the 1966 Shaw Bros. flick, THE KNIGHT OF KNIGHTS.  As we discovered, a seminal film in the adult oriented Hong Kong cinema and a signal to the genre excess HK cinema came to be known and loved for.  THE KNIGHT OF KNIGHTS was not as sleazy as we would have liked but we have to start somewhere.  And along with another film that I review on the show, the 1965 Shaw Bros. Romeo and Juliet muck-up, CROCODILE RIVER, we are off to a dang good start.

THIS WEEK IN SLEAZE

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With this show, Sleazy K and I are attempting to go back in time to discover exactly where HK skinema, or erotica, began.  While THE KNIGHT OF KNIGHTS makes a minor start to our goal, for sheer body parts on display, the girly drama CROCODILE RIVER surprisingly trumps it?  I have provided a few screen shots below, taken from CROCODILE RIVER, as a companion piece to the podcast.  Check out the junk in the trunk!  And everywhere else!  Gosh love that body double! While Ken and I are still in research mode, these scenes of skin are quite possibly some of the earliest put to HK film, circa 1965.  Well, until someone tells us otherwise?  To understand the context of these images, I give a very Mr. Skin-ish account on the show.  Give it a listen!  If anyone can provide us with more knowledge, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give us a shout! 

Lau Leung-wa

LAN KWAI FONG SWINGERS

As for our Last Sleazy Movies Watched segment.....this ones a doozy!   Sleazy K continues his great quest for all things IFD by reviewing the cool Taiwanese film from 1984, DEADLY SILVER ANGELS aka STRONG OF WOMAN aka 5 LADY VENOMS.   It's the lovely Elsa Yeung Wai-san and her rag tag bunch of lady avengers.  Try and keep your pants on!  Then I babble on about the absolutely insane and in entirely poor f**king taste, LAN KWAI FONG SWINGERS, from 1993.  LAN KWAI FONG SWINGERS is yet another Charlie Cho Cha-lee opus and you will get what you freakin' deserve by watching this film.  As I say in the podcast,  I don't know how these scumbag filmmakers sleep at night?!  Poorly fashioned around a tragic true life event, LAN KWAI FONG SWINGERS is a CAT III bang-film of a different kind.  You have been warned.  That being said, I loved it!

Here's but a taste of the dirty LAN KWAI FONG SWINGERS.  A film that just blew my mind.  If you are seeking true exploitation, this film is it.  Ripped from the headlines tragedy plus a whole lotta bangin' going on!?  It's a must-see!  Get the podcast HERE, uncap your jar of Vaseline (Icy-Hot for the hardcore troopers), and prepare to get sticky for the next 3 hours!  It's This Week In Sleaze, Episode 5- Shaw Boobies!

This Week In Sleaze episode 4: NAKED KILLER SPECIAL

Zzzzziiiippppp! That's the beautiful sound of jeans unzipping in anticipation of our NAKED KILLER episode of This Week In Sleaze! I don't know the sound button-fly jeans make when they are unencumbered so I went with what I know. OK. Lotions at the ready? Check! Gird your buttocks, folks, click on over to Podcast On Fire Central and download this glorious wet stain of a podcast.

Without going into too much detail, Sleazy K and I connected a few dots between the exceptional Shaw Bros. classic, INTIMATE CONFESSIONS OF A CHINESE COURTESAN, and it's early 90's CAT III update, BARE NAKED CAKE GOAT aka NAKED KILLER. We will most definitely curl back up with 'INTIMATE CONFESSIONS' as we continue to go back to the future in upcoming podcasts, examining the messy birth of erotica in Hong Kong skinema.

We get on with things by discussing some of the major players that make up this dirty genre classic. Simon Yam tat-wah, Chingmy Yau Suk-ching, Carrie Ng Ka-lai, Yiu Wai, Hui Siu-hung, Sugawara Madoka, Ken Lo Wai-kwong, Clarence Fok yiu-leung, Peter Pau Tak-hai, and the Shlocky King of HK Cinema, Wong Jing, are all given their propers. Sleazy K and I also touch upon a bunch of other movies in this episode, mostly just grazing the tushies of these films, not really digging our fingertips into their cottage cheese-like flesh, as to not leave fingerprints. A few of the flicks we banter about are.....

I'M YOUR BIRTHDAY CAKE, HOLD YOU TIGHT

HER NAME IS CAT, THE BLACK PANTHER WARRIORS

THE FIRST TIME IS THE LAST TIME

REMAINS OF A WOMAN, LEGAL INNOCENCE

THE CYPRUS TIGERS

HIDDEN DESIRE

FULL CONTACT

EVIL INSTINCT

A WILD PARTY

FALSE LADY

DEVIL'S LOVE

As always the case with our sleazy broadcast, we bring up the rear with our 'Last Sleazy Movies Watched'. This go 'round, K bangs about gleefully on the cut and paste HER FATAL WAYS CAT III clone, DEVIL'S LOVE. Way back when I also posted about this enjoyable mish-mash exercise. And Ken and I concur. It's silly, dirty fun! Revisit those posts HERE.

ANOTHER PIECE OF ROMANCE

I go down a different CAT III path as I schmooze about the wonderful oddity that is.....ANOTHER PIECE OF ROMANCE. An appearance by my best friend, Charlie Cho Cha-lee, is only the tip of the peni.....er, iceberg. ANOTHER PIECE OF ROMANCE is a flick that I could babble-on about forever.....and I almost do!

Ahhhh.....the infamous Chingmy Yau/NAKED KILLER promo shot. Taken from behind!!!! Sleazy K relives a little of his youth as he reminisces about this very pic. And another piece of the Sleazy K puzzle falls into place.....

It's a 2 1/2+ hour doozy of a dirty podcast. Download it HERE and let the lovely Mary Palm and her 5 sisters lend you a helping hand as the soothing sounds of This Week In Sleaze carry you off into ecstasy.

*** Special thanks to John Charles, author of the indespensible HK film review manual, The Hong Kong Filmography, 1977-1997: A Reference Guide to 1,100 Films Produced by British Hong Kong Studios. John is a great supporter of the podcast and was able to pass along this gem on Peter Pau Tak-hai and the film, NAKED KILLER, "I had a chance to speak with Peter Pau back in 2000 and asked him (among other things) why he is credited in the trailer for NAKED KILLER. He said he shot the original footage for the spot (which I love) as a favor to Clarence Fok. Pau feels that he would not have a career if not for Fok, who hired Pau to serve as DP on THE GREATEST LOVER at a time when Pau could find no work in the industry and had pretty much given up (he didn't go into details, but I get the impression that shooting THE LEGEND OF WISELY was not a pleasant experience). The film was a hit, prompting Wong Jing to use Pau as DP on GOD OF GAMBLERS and his career was right back on track."

If you don't own John's book....well....then you really aren't a fan of Hong Kong cinema, now, are you? Don't despair, you can order a copy right HERE. Also, check out Johns old HK film website, Hong Kong Digital. It's another wonderful site for referencing HK films. Thanks again, John!

This Week In Sleaze ep. 3 SEX AND ZEN Special

THIS WEEK IN SLEAZE ep. 3 SEX AND ZEN SPECIAL

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Episode 3 is on line! On the opening day of the much anticipated film (well, at least I am anticipating it) SEX AND ZEN 3:D EXTREME ECSTASY, Sleazy K and I discuss Michael Mak Dong-kit's HK cinema classic, SEX AND ZEN. Who better than a man named 'Dong' to direct such fun and filthy film and who better then 2 guys with tiny dongs to discuss the film? Not only do we riff on horse penises, Amy Yip's augmented ta-ta's, and flutes disappearing into hirsute vagina's, we lovingly explore the 1987 SEX AND ZEN precursor, YU PUI TSUEN II , directed by Ho Fan. Like a horse shmeckle in your mouth, here comes THIS WEEK IN SLEAZE ep. 3, SEX AND ZEN!!!

SEX AND ZEN (1991)

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Pictured above is a little piece of nostalgia for me. My Tai Seng SEX AND ZEN vhs. This was the first HK movie I ever bought. I have fond memories of watching this jaw dropper as a fine young lad of 19. It was the beginning of the end, after viewing this. Discovering HK cinema was much more that gun play and martial arts action. There was another type of action on display. And like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, or an awkward 19 year old rising in his slightly damaged jeans from Marshall's upon seeing Isabelle Chow and Rena Murakami play hide-the-flute, Kingwho? was born.

YU PUI TSUEN (1987)

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Here is my YU PUI TSIEN II vcd that I found in the 'adult' section of a shop in NYC Chinatown. It's worth the blushing and the sweat a few awkward glances give you as you flip through the naughty discs in the back of the store. If you don't, you run the risk of missing out on gems like this. Pictured below are some more movies from my collection and all are mentioned in the latest TWIS podcast. It's gooey fun!

YU PUI TSUEN III (1996)

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THE FORBIDDEN LEGEND: SEX AND CHOPSTICKS (2008)

- THE FORBIDDEN LEGEND: SEX AND CHOPSTICKS II (2009)

- JIN PIN MEI (1996)

- A CHINESE TORTURE CHAMBER STORY II (1998)

- LOVER OF THE LAST EMPRESS (1995)

- EROTIC GHOST STORY (1990)

- EROTIC GHOST STORY: PERFECT MATCH (1997)

- THE GOLDEN LOTUS: LOVE AND DESIRE (1991)

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Have you downloaded the podcast yet? WTF are you waiting for? Change into a fresh new pair of underoos and give it a listen already. Everything you wanted to know about SEX AND ZEN but were afraid to ask! I also expound, in our Last Sleazy Movies Watched segment, on a Charlie Ch0 Cha-lee rarity, ESCORT SERVICE aka WEST BIG HEAVEN KING.

ESCORT SERVICE aka WEST BIG HEAVEN KING (1993)

- I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weiner!

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The gang's all here!

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Cha-lee has a gay 'ol time in ESCORT SERVICE and you will also have sticky fun while listening to the show. Download this equine size load of a CAT III podcast right here. Get your box of tissues at the ready, or if you prefer, a hand towel, lay back and let the soothing sounds of Qing Dynasty dirtiness pound you deep into your soul.