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The Important Cinema Club

#459 - Happy Lunar New Year Movies!

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7575 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

we explore some Hong Kong Lunar New Year Movies that cinlude IT'S A MAD MAD MAD WORLD, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (1992), and CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002. Send us stuff like zines, movie-related books, physical media or memorabilia c/o Justin Decloux, Unit 1010, 3230 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4N 3P6, Canada. 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), THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST (www.theveryfinecomicbookpodcast.com) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as Will's MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my name is Justin DeClew, and I'm here today with Will Slown.

0:10.9

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And Will, I would just like to say

0:15.1

Gonghe Fat Choi to you and your family. Well, thank you so much. Good tidings to you, too.

0:20.8

It is Chinese New Year. It's the year of the horse. Do you think my tonal pronunciation was there? Because, you know, I want to say something like Kong, hey, fat joy. But then that just sounds pretentious, and I'm wrong already as well. I wouldn't know. No. Me neither. Listen, here's what I know. when I listen to a Cantonese movie, I hear the sounds are much more like sharp.

0:40.8

I'm sorry. Me neither. Listen, here's what I know. When I listen to a Cantonese movie, I hear the sounds are much more like sharp.

0:40.4

I'm sorry.

0:40.7

I can be careful.

0:41.8

But when I hear a mainland movie, it's more like Shang Shai Shosh. Yeah, yeah, I can recognize it. And I remember having to come to that realization

0:48.8

playing a Hong Kong Lunar New Year movie,

0:52.7

King of Comedy,

0:53.5

and playing the VCD and being like,

0:55.6

why do I hear two audio tracks?

0:57.4

And having to... a Hong Kong Lunar New Year movie, King of Comedy, and playing the VCD and being like,

0:55.6

why do I hear two audio tracks and having to unplug one

0:59.0

and be like, which is the one that is more true

1:02.1

to what Stephen Chow does?

1:03.4

Which one is Cantonese?

1:04.2

Which one is Mandarin?

1:05.2

Did you ever have the Video Asia DVD

1:07.3

of Samo Hong's classic film, Don't Give a Damn.

1:10.9

I did not know.

1:12.0

Released here under the title Burger Cop.

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