Heroes Three Podcast
The bi-weekly podcast where three friends explore the best, worst, and everything in-between in the world of Asian Cinema!
Episodes
Welcome back to Heroes Three podcast! This week we are joined by Vintage Henshin's Mike Dent to discuss Kinji Fukasaku's 1978 space opera Message From Space starring Vic Morrow, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Etsuko Shihomi!
Full cast and credits at IMDB
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You can buy the Eureka Region B release of Message From Space here!
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Welcome back to Heroes Three podcast! This week we begin our summer arc of Hollywood blockbusters from Asian cinema with the 1977 giant monster film The Mighty Peking Man, directed by Ho Meng-Hua and starring Danny Lee, Evelyne Kraft, and Ku Feng!
Full cast and credits at HKMDB
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Welcome back to Heroes Three podcast! This week we are joined by Josh McKenzie to discuss the 1989 original video animation, Riding Bean created by Kenichi Sonoda!
Full cast and credits at Anime News Network
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Listen to Josh on Swimfans!
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Welcome back to Heroes Three podcast! This week we conclude our first look into the works of Zhang Yimou with the 2018 desaturated wuxia epic, Shadow!
Full cast and credits at HKMDB
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Zhang Yimou Q&A at TIFF in 2018
Come see Carlos host a talk back for the premiere of Afric...
Welcome back to Heroes Three podcast. This week we discuss Zhang Yimou's wuxia follow up to Hero, 2004's House of Flying Daggers starring Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Zhang Ziyi!
Full cast and credits at HKMDB
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The video of our 2025 VGM Con panel "The Bruce Lees of Fighting Games" is now on youtube! Plus us chatting about VGM Con a bit. Please check it out in the link below!
https://youtu.be/40Rs0v_hpYY
This week on Heroes Three podcast we're in the thralls of preparing our VGM CON panel, so please enjoy this short discussion on Cause: The Birth of Hero and a little preview of our upcoming panel!
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Today on Heroes Three our very regular hosts have a very normal time talking about the very regular film The Avenging Fist directed by Andrew Lau from 2001!
Full cast and credits at HKMDB
Welcome back to Heroes Three podcast! This week we discuss the worldwide hit film Hero from 2002, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Jet Li, Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi, and Donnie Yen!
Full cast and credits at HKMDB
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Come check us out live at VGM CON, April 11-13t...
Welcome to the latest episode of Heroes Three podcast! This week we are continuing our look at the works of Zhang Yimou with 1994's To Live, starring Ge You and Gong Li.
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Timestamps
(0:00) Intro
(1:01) Why To Live
(15:05) Technical aspects of the film
(20:55) Nove...
Welcome back to Heroes Three podcast! This episode we begin an arc discussing the work of Zhang Yimou, beginning with Raise the Red Lantern (with a touch of Red Sorghum for comparison) from 1991 starring Gong Li.
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Timestamps
(0:00) Intro
(0:57) Why no Red Sorghum?
(4:38)...
Welcome back to Heroes Three podcast! This episode we're warming up with another look at a handful of animated shorts.
Ek Cup Chaha from 2019 by Sumit Yempalle
The Boy Who Cheated Death from 2024 by Pipou Phuong Nguyen
Gurren Lagann Parallel Works episode 8 from 2008 by You Yoshinari
Happy Holidays from Heroes Three! This week we are closing out 2024 with Marty's host pick, God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai directed by Wong Jing and starring Stephen Chow, Ng Man Tat, and Gong Li!
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Full blog post with gifs here!
Ti...
Welcome back to Heroes Three! Host picks continue with Matthew's choice, and he brought the Bong Joon-ho monster film from 2006, The Host!
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Making of The Host documentary
Timestamps
(0:00) Intro
(1:35) Carl...
Welcome back to Heroes Three! Some host picks to close out the year and Carlos brings one of his all time favorites, Katsuhiro Otomo's Memories from 1995!
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Full cast and credits at Anime News Network!
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Full blog post with gifs here!
This week, we take a detour to hear about Carlos's super fun trip to Japan! Ninja museum, boar encounters, and
super grannies await!
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This week on Heroes Three, we make a brief Halloween diversion to look at Bollywood horror with the Ramsay Brothers' Purana Mandir (1984)!
Watch it (stretched out but in full) on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X400ruYdui0
Timestamps
(0:00) Intro
(1:24) Raat thoughts
(2:10) Purana Mandir discussion
(37:42) Lily Li RIP
(39:09) Outro and training for next week
Welcome back to Heroes Three! This week Summer of Ninja ENDS as we are joined by Leon from Hong Kong and Beyond to discuss the apex of 80s ninja cinema, Revenge of the Ninja from Sam Firstenberg and Cannon Films starring Sho Kosugi!
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Check out Leon and Shaz at Hong Kong & Beyond!
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Full cast and credits at IMDB!
Welcome back to Heroes Three podcast! The Summer of Ninja continues as we take on another double feature, Chang Cheh's Five Element Ninjas from 1982 and The Super Ninja from 1984-ish.
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Ti...
The Summer of Ninja doesn't stop here at Heroes Three podcast. This episode we are very excited to be joined by The Fanatical Dragon to discuss the directorial debut of the legendary Corey Yuen, Ninja in the Dragon's Den from 1982 starring Conan Lee and Hiroyuki Sanada!
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