About this episode

The episode reviews Kenji Tanigaki's action film The Furious and compares it to The Raid and The Raid 2.

Kenji Tanigaki's The Furious took TIFF by storm last year, and now, it's finally here. This week, we review this martial arts extravaganza and discuss its comparisons — justly or unjustly — to The Raid and The Raid 2. However, one thing is for sure: The Furious is one of the best action movies of the last decade, coming close to just reinventing the entire visual language of the action movies we love.

People in this episode

Hosts: Derek Wong, Amir Touray, Jeff Zhang

Topics covered

• martial arts
• film review
• action movies
• visual language
• TIFF

Keywords

• The Furious
• Kenji Tanigaki
• action movies
• film review
• martial arts

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Furious, The Raid, The Raid 2

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