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Asian Cinema Film Club

Brainstew Productions

A bi-weekly podcast which aims to provide an introduction to the exciting world of Asian cinema. Each episode sees Elwood and Stephen highlighting a different film worth discovering as well as discussing a wide variety of topics relating from actor / director profiles through to exploring the more random aspects of this fascinating field.

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All Episodes

00:40:54

World Cinema Film Club #8 - Persepolis

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/11/14

Elwood and Stephen look at Persepolis the animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel about her life in pre and post-revolutionary Iran as the film traces Satrapi's life and her own rebellion she lead against an oppressive regime.

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00:35:10

Asian Horror Month Recap #3

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/11/06

Elwood goes over the week's horror viewing for Asian Horror Month including * The Snake Girl and The Silver Haired Witch * Horrors of Malformed Men * Tetsuo The Iron Man * Angel Dust * House * Tokyo Gore Police * Greatful Dead ⁠⁠Buy us a coffee and support the show⁠⁠ Check out our sponsor: ⁠⁠Yes Please Vintage

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01:17:54

A.C. Film Club #119 - Dark Water

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/10/31

Elwood and Stephen are joined once again by Rashmi Menon to look at Hideo Nakata's "Dark Water" as single mother Yoshimi struggles to deal with her divorce moves into a rundown apartment building only to find their new home suffering a leak which continues to grow as Yoshimi begins to notice strange things happening around the building. We look at the remake, question why so many directors fail to transfer their success to Hollywood and Rashmi reveals the details of her own soon to

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01:17:33

A.C. Film Club #118 - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall...

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/10/27

Elwood and Stephen look at Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives the first Thai film to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in which Uncle Boonmee suffering from Kidney disease and believing he is going to die soon brings his relatives together in the countryside were he is soon visited by the ghosts of the family he has lost. Buy us a coffee and support the show⁠ Check out our sponsor: ⁠Yes Please Vintage

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01:03:53

Asian Horror Month Recap #2

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/10/21

Elwood goes over the week's horror viewing for Asian Horror Month * Dumplings * Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters * Nuigulumar Z: Gothic Lolita Battle Bear * Digital Devil Saga: Megami Tensei * Vampire Hunter D * Goke Body Snatcher From Hell Plus Stephen picks a fight, the importance of media preservation and working actors plus more! ⁠Buy us a coffee and support the show⁠ Check out our sponsor: ⁠Yes Please Vintage

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00:59:39

World Cinema Film Club #7- The Vanishing

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/10/17

Elwood and Stephen look at the Dutch thriller The Vanishing in which Rex and Saskia a young couple holidaying in France find their vacation taking a nightmarish twist when Saskia disappears. Now three years later Rex is contacted by a man who knows what happened to her. We look at how the film suffered a disastrous American remake, talk about the memorable ending and why the film is still worth watching even if you know the ending.

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01:19:12

Asian Horror Month Recap #1

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/10/14

Elwood takes on another 31 day challenge as this year he focuses on Horror as he sits down with Stephen to recap the good and the bad of the journey so far as they discuss * Bloody Chainsaw Girl * Zombie For Sale * Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Club Layla * Chainsaw Man (Season #1) * Battle Royale 2 * Devilman (OVA Trilogy) * Calamity of Snakes * Genocyber (OVA) * Pulse * Hiruko The Goblin * #Alive * The Boxer's Omen Buy us a coffee and support the showCheck out our sponsor: Yes Please

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01:03:27

A.C. Film Club #117 - Shadow

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/10/09

Elwood and Stephen look at Zhang Yimou's Shadow as a brilliant general devises an intricate plan involving his wife, a look-alike, and two kings. Buy us a coffee and support the showCheck out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage

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01:12:04

A.C. Film Club #116 - Whispering Corridors

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/09/16

Elwood and Stephen look at the first film in the Whispering Corridors series a South Korean ghost story set in an all girls school as a series of unusual murders leads a group of girls to investigate the mysteries the school is hiding. Buy us a coffee and support the showCheck out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage

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00:47:10

World Cinema Film Club #6- The Fireman's Ball

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/09/09

Elwood and Stephen look at Miloš Forman's 1967 comedy following a small town's volunteer fire department attempting to put on their annual ball only for someone to start stealing the raffle prizes, the beauty contest has gone astray and no one is paying for their drinks!

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01:24:03

A.C. Film Club #115 - Summer Wars

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/09/04

Elwood and Stephen look at Summer Wars in which the world has become reliant on a digital realm called Oz which maths genius Kenji unwittingly unlocks for the A.I. Love Machine which soon sets about taking over Oz and bringing humanity to it's knees. Buy us a coffee and support the showCheck out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage

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00:58:24

World Cinema Film Club #5 - Subway

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/08/27

Elwood and Stephen look at the Cinema Du Look movement with Luc Besson's Subway as a thief on the run from gangsters hides out in the Paris subway system only to soon discover a subterranean community living under the city streets.

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01:15:32

A.C. Film Club #114 - Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/08/14

Elwood and Stephen look at Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit's Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy based on 410 consecutive tweets by @marylony following Mary as she deals with her final year at school and the many problems it brings with it. Buy us a coffee and support the showCheck out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage

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01:10:05

Author Ramona Lee Soo-Jun (Agent 00)

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/08/06

Stephen and Elwood are joined by author Ramona Lee Soo-Jun to talk about her book Agent 00 Volume.1 ahead of it's English language release as she talks about the writing experience as well as her Asian cinema inspirations. Ramona also brings a great listener roulette pick to the show for us to discuss. Ramona Lee Soo-Jun Instagram Agent 00 Pre-order

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00:51:24

World Cinema Film Club #4 - Volver

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/07/29

Elwood and Stephen head to Spain for Pedro Almodovar's quirky comedy Volver as three generations of women in the same family attempt to deal with a body, running a restaurant as well as their ghost mom as Almodovar pays tribute to the region he was born La Mancha.

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01:25:03

A.C. Film Club #113 - Matango aka Attack of the...

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/07/17

Elwood and Stephen look at the 1963 horror film Matango also known by the colourful title Attack of the Mushroom People as a group of friends find themselves shipwrecked on an island with an abundance of mushrooms, while slowly discovering the secrets the island hides. Directed by the legendary Ishiro Honda we look at how it differs from his usual style aswell as looking at the films he directed outside of the Kaiju movies he is best known for. We also look at one of Japan's weirdest bands

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01:19:29

A.C. Film Club #112 - The Assassin

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/07/07

Elwood and Stephen look at Hou Hsiao-Hsien's wuxia movie The Assassin as they attempt to dissect the plot from the arthouse direction in this unique tale of revenge set during the last years of the Tang dynasty Plus Godzilla '98 re-evaluated, The Independent Podcast Awards + Ran and Punk Samurai reviewed and more!! Buy us a coffee and support the showCheck out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage

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00:53:17

World Cinema Film Club #3 - The Hunt

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/07/05

Stephen and Elwood's world cinema travels this time take them to Denmark for Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt as kindergarten teacher Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen) finds himself at the centre of a witch hunt when one of the children claims he sexually abused her and sending the small town into a state of mass hysteria as accusations are made and rumours begin to spread.

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01:10:25

A.C. Film Club #111 - I Saw The Devil

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/06/25

Elwood and Stephen look at Kim Jee-Woon's unique thriller as secret agent Kim Soo-hyeon (Lee Byung-hun) sets out to find serial killer Kyung-chul (Choi Min-sik) who killed his fiancé and soon sets about carrying out a very unique revenge. Buy us a coffee and support the showCheck out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage

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01:14:47

A.C. Film Club #110 - The Super Parental Guardians

Asian Cinema Film Club ·

2023/06/14

Elwood and Stephen look at the Philippine action comedy Super Parental Guardians as a pair of mismatched guardians one a social media influencer the other a gang affiliated uncle are forced to look after the kids of their murdered friend / sister in this Netflix exclusive. Buy us a coffee and support the showCheck out our sponsor: Yes Please Vintage

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