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The Important Cinema Club

#292 - Anything For Entertainment: The Wong Jing Miracle

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7575 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the career of a one-of-a-kind filmmaker: Wong Jing. He's had #1 hits, made films out of spite, and produced/written/directed trash, more trash, and super trash in the name of box-office gold and putting a smile on his audience's face. We focus on his films WINNER TAKES ALL, GOD OF GAMBLERS and CHASING THE DRAGON Join the Patreon now for an exclusive episode every week, access to our entire Patreon Episode back catalogue, your name read out on the next episode, and the friendly Discord chat: patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie) as well as Will's other podcast MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us)

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0:00.0

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

0:11.1

And today, we're talking about Wang Jing, the master of trash, the schlockmeister extraordinaire,

0:16.6

and dare I say it, the man who is Hong Kong cinema? Yeah, I guess you could say that.

0:21.9

I mean, there is a sort of yin and yang of Hong Kong cinema in the 1990s, isn't there?

0:28.0

And both of them were named Wong.

0:30.2

Hmm.

0:31.2

Yes.

0:31.6

And one of them sought the other was an enemy.

0:34.4

And the other one probably didn't think of his opponent at all.

0:37.6

So on the one hand, you had Wong Karwai, an acclaimed international art house sensation,

0:43.3

someone who works very slowly, very methodically, whose films often do not meet with commercial

0:48.8

success at home.

0:50.0

And who I should point out, to people who don't know, did come up through the commercial

0:53.8

Hong Kong system,

0:55.4

co-writing such films as Haunted Cop Shop 2.

0:58.5

And then, on the other hand, is Wang Jing.

1:00.7

He makes movies on an assembly line.

1:03.1

He chases trends shamelessly.

1:05.7

His films are full of bathroom humor and mugging.

1:08.7

How about some statistics?

1:10.4

On IMDB, Wang Jing is credited as the director of 119 movies, a producer on 185 movies, a writer

1:19.2

on 216, and an actor in 88.

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