Episode Twenty one - The Champions (1983)

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03/14/25 • 95 min

We know, we are late once again but we have come back with an episode jam packed with movies for your listening pleasure. Plus, you might notice we have created chapters for this episode so you will have an easier time navigating through the hour and a half conversation.

To start off, we cover a few movies such as Drew Hancock's Companion (2025), Steven SoderberghThe Presence (2024) and the J-Horror phenomenon around the characters featured in Sadako and Kayako (2016). Then, we move to a quick conversation around Marvel's Captain America - Brave New World before recommending two books, Film Korea by Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham (published in english by Wellbeck Publishing and in french by Ynnis Edition) and Wrath of the Dragon - Real life fights of Bruce Lee by John Little (published in english by ECW Press). Finally, we move to our main conversation of the episode around Brandy Yuen's The Champions featuring a young Yuen Biao, Moon Lee and Dick Wei. This early contender to the title of martial art soccer comedy leads us to talk about various other things including Captain Tsubasa, the more obscure Moreo Top Striker (aka L'ecole des champions in France), and Bernard Tapi's duet with the rapper Doc Gyneco.

For more information, check out:
Rule 10 Action with whom Wing is working.
The podcast Monster Squad about The Ring.

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For more information, check out:
Rule 10 Action with whom Wing is working.
The podcast Monster Squad about The Ring.

Come tell us what you think about the episode, what movies you would like us to cover and tell your friends, family, relatives, and cats about us,

Previous Episode

Episode Twenty - The One (2001)

We aimed to record and release this new episode before the end of the new year but instead we are kicking off 2025 with our episode about James Wong's The One, featuring Jet Li. The movie about travelling through different dimensions before travelling through dimensions was cool! Take that Michelle Yeoh and Marvel movies! But, as its now customary, you will also hear us talk about loosely related movies we watched too, like its the 1963 american comedy Its a mad mad mad mad world featuring Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney or Ethel Merman and some of the most impressive real stunts imagineable at the time, and a forgotten gem, Broken path (also known as Attack of the yakuza), an action film from 2008 featuring Johnny Yong Bosch (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and tons of voice acting).

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Next Episode

Episode Twenty two - Chungking Express (1994)

You might not have guessed it from looking at the movies we talked about for the last two seasons but we actually always intended to cover other sort of Hong Kong movies than the action or genre ones. The timing was never right, there were always ideas, or maybe we didn't feel ready yet? Well, guess what? We are now, and we are covering Chungking Express from the beloved, and equally criticized, Wong Kar-Wai. Released in 1994 and shot while editing Dung che sai duk/Ashes of Time, Chungking Express is an incredible movie about two love stories.

You might also notice the lack of introduction about other random subjects in this episode, but fear not dear listener, as we kept those for the end simply because... we forgot? We were too excited to cover this movie? So stick around if you want to hear us talk about Eric Khoo, Devil May Cry and Like a Dragon 8. We hope you enjoy this episode and do let us know what you think.