Hello, my name is Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

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Breaking news.

Hong Kong New Wave O tour, Ringo Lamb, is dead at 62.

63.

63.

So, okay, the fact checkers in our news department have been fired.

And Ringel Lamb, being the director most famous as the guy that Quentin Tarantino supposedly ripped off by using Lamb's film City on Fire for his reservoir dog's debut.

Also, the director of School on Fire and Prison on Fire and Prison on Fire too, as well as some

Jean-Claude Van Dam films like Maximum Risk and Replicant and In Hell. He was the most prolific

Hong Konguteur to come to Hollywood and make Van Dam films. Van Dam's sort of the Ellis Island

of Hong Kong filmmakers. You know, John Wu, of course, came and made hard target, had a bad

experience. Ringgo Lam, you know, didn't have the prospects that John Wu did, I guess.

He supposedly had a miserable experience making maximum risk, but I guess Van Dam is just

a likable guy, or maybe that was the only opportunity given to him, I would be fascinated how these three

specific directors all ended up working with John Collin Van Dam. Was he reaching out to them personally?

I think so. Ringo Lam was the second Hong Kong filmmaker after John Wu to work with

John Claude Van Dam. And he's also somebody who I think in the popular imagination is kind of,

well, I don't want to say the poor man's John Wu but he's not he's not the poor man's John Wu but he's somebody who I would almost say that he's one of those directors that like his name is recognizable and people know him but there's no one that says like I'm a massive like Ringo Lamb fan've seen all of his movies. Yeah, he's nobody's favorite Hong Kong director.

But he is one of the kind of titans of the 80s, 90s, Hong Kong. I want to be honest, he's not really one of my favorites either. Like, if you put a gun to my head and said, all right, write a bunch of Hong Kong directors, He'd probably be one of the first ones I would write down just because his name is so recognizable.

Not his real name.

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