This week on @heroes3podcast.bsky.social we’re joined by Swimfans podcast co-host Jennifer Hocking @diatron5.swimfanspod.com to close out our summer arc with 2002’s critically acclaimed crime drama, Infernal Affairs!

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This week we’re sneaking out in costume to grab a snack to discuss the 2004 superhero film Zebraman directed by Takashi Miike and starring Sho Aikawa!

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This week on @heroes3podcast.bsky.social we are joined by Johnny aka Thefanaticaldragon to talk about Jackie Chan’s Armour of God! Cursed haircuts, cool cars, and amazing fight choreography!

New Heroes Three will be up tomorrow! Until then, here's a few select gifs from Armour of God!

Bishoujo Kamen Poitrine (1990) Episode 12

Tfw you don't remember your training.

This week on @heroes3podcast.bsky.social we’re celebrating 8 years of the show! Join us as we look back at the podcast with a little quiz.

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RED ALERT! NEW M-CLASS ON DECK! We're doing a BRAND NEW thing and branching out into comics for the very first time with the 1967 Gold Key Comics published "Star Trek #1!" Did the writer of the first ever Trek comic even watch the show ONCE?? On iTunes, Spotify, & SoundCloud!

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Osnap, I’m on a podcast!

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who or Transformers.

Today on @heroes3podcast.bsky.social we’re talking about Kinji Fukasaku’s 1978 space opera, Message From Space alongside @vintagehenshin.bsky.social !

We’re still waiting on our Liabe Seed after the holiday weekend. Expect our episode on 1978’s Message From Space later this week!

This week on @heroes3podcast.bsky.social we’re starting our summer arc of Hollywood blockbuster inspired films with 1977’s The Mighty Peking Man starring Danny Lee, Evelyne Kraft, and Ku Feng!

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This week on SWIMFANS: FULL CLIP, we’re joined by Heroes Three @heroes3podcast.bsky.social cohost Carlos Leon-Roman to talk James Cameron, the art of the sequel, and the glee of practical effects in 1991’s TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

This week we're joined by @amonns.bsky.social to talk about the 1989 OVA Riding Bean, created by Kenichi Sonoda!

Listen to the experts!

@lecinenerd.bsky.social Y'all mentioned Stephen Chow and Kung Fu Hustle on the latest ThirtyTwentyTen and I had to tell you a little bit about the wonderful world of 90s Stephen Chow films!

Today on @heroes3podcast we’re closing out our first look into the works of Zhang Yimou with 2018’s desaturated wuxia epic, Shadow!

From: A Deer of Nine Colors (1981), dir. Qian Jiajun and Dai Tielang, Shanghai Animation Film Studio

This week on the pod, we welcome video editor and essayist @infinitesnow.bsky.social to talk who is and who isn’t good at yearning, art inside of art, and Orpheus and Eurydice in 2019’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

Wow! So a whole bunch of our episodes got dropped from Spotify before we could dispute the removal (including the most recent episode) so I'll work on getting those back up. They're all still available on the blog and RSS pod catchers but not Apple or Spotify. Looking into it!

This week on @heroes3podcast.bsky.social we’re discussing Zhang Yimou’s wuxia follow up to Hero, 2004’s House of Flying Daggers!

From: The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon (1963), dir. Yugo Serikawa, Toei Doga

Hold on, my ride’s here

Our Heroes Three panel from VGM Con 2025 "The Bruce Lees of Fighting Games" is now live! Please check it out on youtube!

Our Heroes Three panel from VGM Con 2025 "The Bruce Lees of Fighting Games" is now live! Please check it out on youtube!

Just a few days late but panel went so well! Look forward to the video by the end of the week!

Panel prep with @kfcarlito.bsky.social and our new cohost is going well. Check our @heroes3podcast.bsky.social at 1:30pm at VGMCON 2025!

Heroes Three panel is tomorrow at 1:30pm at VGM Con in Minneapolis! "The Bruce Lees of Fighting Games" looking at the kung fu movie influence on video games!

This week on @heroes3podcast.bsky.social 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! heroes3podcast.blogspot.com/2025/04/1425...

Today on @heroes3podcast.bsky.social our very regular hosts have a very normal time talking about the very regular film The Avenging Fist directed by Andrew Lau from 2001! swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod.com

The Great Chase!! An Etsuko Shihomi classic 🔥

The latest @heroes3podcast.bsky.social is here! Join us as we discuss the visual epic from Zhang Yimou, Hero, featuring a star studded cast lead by Jet Li! Link below!

We’re very excited to announce that we will be hosting a live discussion at @vgmcon.bsky.social ! Join @heroes3podcast.bsky.social as we discuss the influence of Asian cinema on video games at our panel - Bruce Lees of Fighting Games! See you there, April 11-13! 🥷🏼🥷🏼🥷🏼

This week on @heroes3podcast.bsky.social we continue our look at the works of Zhang Yimou with 1994’s To Live starring Ge You and Gong Li! Link in thread

Okay, hear me out, a Lord of the Rings remake but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:

Please look forward to our episode on Zhang Yimou’s To Live later this week! It’s a good one! heroesthree.com

This @heroes3podcast.bsky.social Shaw Brothers logo I did a while back looks even better on a CRT TV

Toshiro Mifune driving his MG TD on the set of Yojimbo with his sword on the dash

This episode of @heroes3podcast.bsky.social we begin our discussion on the works of Zhang Yimou with 1991’s Raise the Red Lantern starring Gong Li. No kicks, but plenty of drama! Link in thread. #RaiseTheRedLantern #ZhangYimou #GongLi #HeroesThreePodcast #podcast #AsianCinema #ChineseCinema

Incredible article about the history of Chinese animation, including Uproar/Havoc in Heaven! Great work as always, @ani-obsessive.bsky.social

We are back! Join Matthew, Marty, and Carlos as we warm up our mics with some animated short film talk. Animating with tea powder? Super robots?? Video game cinematics?! Listen to find out!

Letterboxd Stats for youuuu! 2024 was all about ninja on @heroes3podcast.bsky.social and I couldn’t be happier to see Hiroyuki Sanada at the top of my list. 🥷🏼👑

Merry Christmas from @heroes3podcast.bsky.social ! This week we’re closing out the year and our host picks with Marty’s choice, God of Gamblers III - Back to Shanghai!

They put a HKD1 million bounty on this guy (who now plays conservative politics in Canada)