God of Gamblers with Will Sloan

For this next episode in our Wong Jing series, writer and critic Will Sloan joins John and Samm to talk about Jing’s God of Gamblers trilogy: God of Gamblers (1989), starring Chow Yun-Fat as one of the world’s greatest gamblers, who gets amnesia; God of Gamblers II (1990), starring Stephen Chow as a gambler with super powers who teams up with the God of Gamblers’ protege (Andy Lau); and God of Gamblers Part III: Back to Shanghai (1991), where Stephen Chow’s super powers accidentally send him back in time to Shanghai in 1937. for gambling, musical numbers. Will Sloan is a Toronto-based writer, critic, and cohost of The Important Cinema Club. His book, Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA is out now!