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
By Hook Or By Crook
Join us as we discuss the 1980 Karl Maka directed action farce. Starring Sammo and Dean Shek. Dean is tasked by the local sheriff into capturing the legendary Flower Kid. A late of mistaken identity …
01:13:33 |
Sun 16 Feb 2020
Armor Of God 2 Operation Condor
Jackie Chan's 1991 globetrotting action comedy. Mostly filmed on location, Jackie plays world renowned thief and adventurer Condor (but everyone just calls him Jakie) on the hunt for Nazi gold in the…
01:12:55 |
Sun 02 Feb 2020
Aces Go Places
The full crew watch Eric Tsang's 1982 comedy/crime/action film. starring Samuel Hui Karm Makka and Sylvia Chang. The film is filled with slapstick and great car chases.
01:16:48 |
Sun 19 Jan 2020
Shadow
The crew are fooled into watching Shadow, a 2018 period melodrama directed by Yimou Zhang masquerading as an action film in the trailer.
To be fair there is one pretty good fight scene tho.
01:08:43 |
Sun 05 Jan 2020
The Butterfly Murders
The crew watch Tsiu Hark's 1979 feature directorial debut. The story centers on a castle in which butterflies have grown a taste for human flesh.
Part horror, part action, part intrigue. its hard f…
01:09:33 |
Sun 22 Dec 2019
End of Year Celebration
Sam, Scott and Rachael go over the best and worst films of the year. There are also some bad impressions.
Its going up a bit early due to technical difficulties, we hope to have another podcast up …
00:58:08 |
Sat 07 Dec 2019
The Sword of Many Loves
We discuss the 1993 fever dream that is The Sword of Many Loves. Directed by Poon Man-kit and staring 90's HK heartthrob Leon Lai. The movie is equal parts horny, stupid and fighty.
Also for some r…
01:05:51 |
Sun 24 Nov 2019
Triple Threat
Tony Jaa, Tiger Hu Chen and Iko Uwais are up against Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White and Michael Bisping. In a deadly cat and mouse game of revenge. Its a three on three action movie extravaganza.
01:05:11 |
Sun 10 Nov 2019
Rigor Mortis
It's time once again to spook it up, Halloween style, with 2013's Juno Mak Jiangshi creepfest "Rigor Mortis".
Chin Siu-Ho plays.....himself (!) as a down on his luck actor looking to end it all in t…
01:11:32 |
Sat 26 Oct 2019
Shadow Hunters
Mike, Sam and Nathan discuss Shadow Hunters, a 1972 Toei production directed by Toshio Masuda.
Yûjirô Ishihara, Ryôhei Uchida and Mikio Narita play a trio of wandering ronin who hunt down the Shogu…
01:04:04 |
Sun 13 Oct 2019
Legendary Weapons of China
The Shaw Bros 1982 classic.
Set during the boxer rebellion, Spiritual boxers are trying to attain a form which will make them impervious to western weapons. But one master knows its futile and disb…
00:53:04 |
Sun 29 Sep 2019
Terra Formars
Another day, another Takashi Miike live action adaptation of a cult manga series. This time on the AAC we "get out arse's to mars!" and check out the 2016 flick Terra Formars.
In the year 2599 a rag…
01:17:59 |
Sat 14 Sep 2019
Iceman The Time Traveller
The 2018 sequel to Iceman, the film from 2014 starring Donnie Yen and more 3d effects than necessary. Donnie plays Ho Ying, an imperial guard is frozen and thawed out in modern times. Apparently peop…
01:25:55 |
Sun 01 Sep 2019
Doberman Cop
Kano, played by Sonny Chiba, is an small town Okinawan cop in Tokyo looking into the murder of a girl from his home town. When the local cops just go through the motions, Kano takes it on himself to …
01:10:25 |
Sun 18 Aug 2019
Revenger
Revenge is a dish best served cold and Bruce Khan is ice cold in 2018's Revenger.
In a future hellscape, 12 Asian countries agree to send all their worst criminals to the AP-101 prison island to fen…
01:12:24 |
Sat 03 Aug 2019
Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain
Mike and Sam delve into the 1983 wuxia classic. Directed by Tsui Hark and starring Yuen Baio as Ti Ming Qi a soldier that finds himself embroiled in supernatural circumstances after fleeing a battle.
01:15:29 |
Sun 21 Jul 2019
Kung Fu Zombie
Due to an issue we couldn't work out with our gear we couldn't put up the movie we had planned (we are legends).
So the time has come, we are breaking the glass on Kung Fu Zombie, a supernatural act…
00:32:05 |
Sun 07 Jul 2019
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I
Legendary Takeshi Miike brings us the live action adaptation of the legendary, cult manga Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.
Koichi (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is the new kid in the town of Morioh. After a bizarre (n…
01:19:09 |
Sat 22 Jun 2019
My Lucky Stars
We put on our nostalgia glasses and take a look at 1985 action/comedy My Lucky Stars (starring JACKIE CHAN).
Muscles (JACKIE CHAN) is a Hong Kong cop who enlists the help of his childhood friends (…
01:28:14 |
Sun 09 Jun 2019
The Avenging Eagle
Mike and Nathan talk about 1978's The Avenging Eagle. A Shaw Brother's film starring Ti Lung and Alexander Fu.
Ti Lung plays Chik Ming-Sing a man supposedly on the run and Alexander Fu plays Cheuk …
00:48:41 |
Sun 12 May 2019
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