The Way into the Dragon Podcast

Matias and Edwin are joined by Albert Lee, current Executive Director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival and former CEO of Emperor Motion Pictures & Executive at Golden Harvest Studios. In this last episode they want to give a feel to the listeners about how it was like during the golden age of Hong Kong cinema and the way Hong Kong films influenced Hollywood and global culture.

Damsel in distress? Step aside, women can handle their own! Matias and Edwin are joined by film & gender scholar Prof. Gina Marchetti, as they explore the role of gender & the golden period of women empowerment in Chinese cinema as well as the female heroines of Hong Kong cinema from Cheng Pei-Pei to Michelle Yeoh.

Meet hopping vampires, Taoist priests and explore their uniquely Hong Kong-style features! Together with Angus Chan, MD & Founder of Entertaining Power Co Ltd and Producer of Vampire Cleanup Department, Matias and Edwin venture into the Chinese otherworld, full of supernatural peculiarities rarely seen in the West!

Matias and Edwin explore what it was like creating some of the best fight scenes ever in Hong Kong film history. They are joined by Benny "The Jet" Urquidez, the legendary martial-arts champion, who played the final opponent facing off against Jackie Chan in the climactic finales of the two classics "Wheels on Meals" & "Dragons Forever".

Matias and Edwin deep dive into the cinematic legacy of the Shaw Brothers, one of Asia's biggest film studios - exploring the inspirations taken from Hollywood, and the influences it has until today!

Flying swordsmen, beautiful warriors, enchanting mountains & Bamboo forests - Enter the mystical world of Wuxia films, as Matias and Edwin discuss this genre, what characterizes it and how it draws parallels in the West with Wuxia World Founder & CEO Lai Jinping!

Dive into the world of organized crime & brotherhood, as Matias and Edwin recount their favourite Triad movies and discuss the evolution of the genre with John Chong, the co-founder of legendary Media Asia Group and producer of the Infernal Affairs trilogy.

Journey into the world of Hong Kong and Chinese cinema as Matias and Edwin discuss how Bruce Lee shook their world and turned them into superfans! They were joined by Bruce Lee Memorabilia collector & expert Jeff Chinn.