About this episode
The episode explores Frankie Chan's film 'Burning Ambition', highlighting its action scenes and dramatic elements within a crime family narrative.
Frankie Chan takes us on a moustachioed journey through the trials, tribulations and twists of a crime family full of backstabbing, plots, and melodrama in this Hong Kong game of thrones. Our hairy hero doesn't even show up until at least halfway but his presence is felt both in the writing and as the director in his 1989 vanity project, barely resembling the Shoguns' Samurai from which it was inspired. Despite it's dramatic set up, it has incredible action fight scenes with kinetic choreography that holds up to anything golden age Golden Harvest can produce, with the most Jeff Falcon that ever Falconed, and criminally underused Yukari Oshima and Kara Hui.
People in this episode
Host: Asian Action Cast
Topics covered
- crime family
- Hong Kong cinema
- action choreography
- melodrama
- film review
Keywords
- Burning Ambition
- Frankie Chan
- Hong Kong cinema
- action scenes
- crime family
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Shoguns' Samurai
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