Asian Action Cast
Your number one source for Asian Action films and jokes about the perils of Hong Kong stuntmen!
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 71 minutes
- Episodes
- 215
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Armour of God
Whether you know it as Armour of God or Operation Condor II, this 1986 Jackie Chan behemoth of a film is a smorgasbord of action, comedy, adventure and love triangle drama. Director, producer, writer…
01:06:36 |
Sun 26 Jun 2022
Tiger Cage 2/ 洗黑錢
Yuen Woo-Ping’s 1990 Hong Kong action thriller Tiger Cage 2 features a cringe inducingly uneven Donnie Yen performance as divorcee ex-cop opposite the gorgeous owl-eyed Rosamund Kwan. This film also …
01:09:39 |
Sat 11 Jun 2022
Lupin III: The First
Monkey Punch's ever enduring Lupin the Third character sees a new 2019 adventure directed by Takashi Yamazaki. Always a fun romp with tight storytelling, colourful and vibrant characters and compelli…
01:11:42 |
Sat 28 May 2022
The Fable: A Hitman Who Doesn’t Kill
Kan Eguchi's criminally understated 2021 action flick, The Fable: A Hitman Who Doesn’t Kill, sees Junichi Okada's 'The Fable' navigate what is both a more intimate, and more tensely action packed sto…
01:05:50 |
Sun 15 May 2022
Future X Cops
Who wants a Sci-Fi Andy Lau special effects laden Wong Jing directed film? Turns out not many people. Future X Cops is Wong Jing's 2010 seemingly rehashed Future Cops script with more CG, less fun, c…
00:57:43 |
Sun 01 May 2022
An Heroic Fight
When dangerous criminal thugs run out of control, the only ones that can stop them are a team of stuntmen and special effects wizards! This 1986 martial arts gadget fest starring ‘female Jackie chan’…
00:59:44 |
Sun 17 Apr 2022
Naughty Boys
When the world needs a hero and Bruce Lee is gone, Jackie is busy and budget is tight, who do you call? Super Stunt man and all round action hero MARS!
Wellson Chin's 1986 action comedy stunt circu…
01:00:37 |
Sun 03 Apr 2022
The Mission / Cheung foh
Johnny To's '99 artistic bodyguard crime thriller eschews explosions and gore for sylistc character studies into themes of brotherhood, masculinity and kinship. Set on the backdrop of an elite (haha)…
01:01:59 |
Sun 20 Mar 2022
Fistful of Vengeance
Iko Uwais! Lewis Tan! Some other less famous people! Netflix's 2022 spiritual and actual sequel to Wu Assassin's - Fistful of Vengeance is a breathtaking odyssey of plot mediocrity, poorly filmed and…
01:08:59 |
Sun 06 Mar 2022
Furie/Hai Phuong
2019 bring’s the sound and the FURIE with Lê Văn Kiệt’s desperate kidnap quest with a martial arts Mother smearing gangsters against the pavement in search of her daughter.
01:06:35 |
Sun 20 Feb 2022
The Kick (2011)
Prepare to be DAZZLED by THE KICK! 2011’s Prachya Pinkaew’s kinetic family comedy blends Korean Taekwondo tricking with fish out of water Korean family comedy set in Thailand.
01:11:17 |
Sun 06 Feb 2022
Space Battleship Yamato
This edtion of the AAC has the crew viewing the 2010 live adaptation of the legendary anime series Space Battleship Yamato.
With Earth ravaged by radiation due to relentless Gamillas assaults, a bat…
00:45:54 |
Sat 22 Jan 2022
13 Assassins (2010)
The 2010 Takashi Miike remake of 13 Assassins. A group of samurai are tasked with killing the Shogun's sadistic half brother before he can attain true political power.
One of the director's more sub…
01:18:15 |
Sun 09 Jan 2022
End of Year Extravaganza!
It's the Asian Action Cast's end of year special show, where all movies watched this year go head to head. There only can be one... two... three winners! Find out who also wins the Bolo Yeung Big Buf…
01:24:57 |
Sun 05 Dec 2021
Blood Brothers/Bloody Dynasty
Shaw Bro.’s 1973 Chang Cheh film, Blood Brothers (AKA Dynasty of Blood), brings together the charismatic David Chiang Da-Wei, the immortal legend Ti Lung and dynamic Chen Kuan-Tai as brothers of fort…
01:00:44 |
Sun 21 Nov 2021
The Pedicab Driver
Sammo Hung’s self-directed and self-starring 1989 tragi-ballad, Pedicab Driver, mixes young love and heartbreak with the biggest bone crunching Hong Kong action choreography on film. Featuring Sammo’…
01:05:17 |
Wed 10 Nov 2021
House/ハウス
The crew watch the 1977 cult psychedelic horror comedy House, directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Not a huge amount of action in this one, barring some crazy stuff pulled off by best girl Kung Fu.
But it…
01:05:15 |
Sun 24 Oct 2021
The Cat
The AAC crew take a trip through space and time via 1992's The Cat. One of the many "Wisely" films based on the writings of Hong Kong novelist Ni Kuang. Waise Lee stars as our hero 'Wisely' (naturall…
00:57:13 |
Sat 09 Oct 2021
High Risk/Meltdown
Jet Li and Jackie Cheung turn up the heat in a High Risk game of cat and mouse with a devious mastermind, in a desperate move to avoid total Meltdown. Wong Jing’s 1995 blockbuster thinly veiled Die-H…
01:00:22 |
Sun 26 Sep 2021
The Street Fighter/Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken
Takuma Tsurugi - a name of infamy that strikes both fear and spontaneous arousal in whoever he touches and leaves you wanting more. In honour of the enigmatic and irrepressable Shinichi Sonny Chiba w…
01:02:32 |
Sun 12 Sep 2021
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