This week we're wrapping up the year with Matthew's pick, the legendary 1958 Akira Kurosawa film The Hidden Fortress!

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“Mom, can we watch Future Cops?” “No, we have Future Cops at home.” At home:

i was skeptical but the street fighter movie looks great

This week on Heroes Three Marty brings us Shin'ichiro Ueda's One Cut of the Dead! POM!

Be a Hell Yeah person.

Today on @heroes3podcast.bsky.social we’re talking fast cars and sharp choreography with Frankie Chan’s Outlaw Brothers from 1990 starring Frankie, Yukari Oshima, Max Mok, and Michiko Nishiwaki!

Yukari Oshima enjoys the beach the @heroes3podcast.bsky.social way! Coming up this week we’re going to be talking about Frankie Chan’s Outlaw Brothers from 1990! Look forward to it! 🌊🏖️🏎️ #OutRun #HeroesThreePodcast #OutlawBrothers #YukariOshima #FrankieChan

We're back! Right on time for a Halloween episode with We're Going to Eat You (1980) directed by Tsui Hark!

We're back! Right on time for a Halloween episode with We're Going to Eat You (1980) directed by Tsui Hark!

I love Yuen Baiohazard in Wheels on Meals!

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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!

Post a Trio of Awesomeness… @heroes3podcast.bsky.social

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!