Welcome to the Heroes Three podcast! This week we're finishing up the year with Matthew's pick, the legendary Akira Kurosawa film The Hidden Fortress!

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Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(0:31) The George Lucas Elephant in the room

(1:16) Our history with the movie

(6:11) West influences east influences west

(10:23) Clarity and simplicity

(20:18) Plot recap

(25:44) Movie discussion

(36:00) An aside on Star Wars

(42:16) Copying and creativity

(50:08) Back to The Hidden Fortress

(1:05:40) 2008 Remake

(1:07:07) Plugs and outro

Welcome to Heroes Three podcast! This episode it's Marty's pick and we are discussing Shin'ichiro Ueda's One Cut of the Dead!

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Making of One Cut of the Dead documentary!

Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(0:29) Spoiler Free thoughts

(3:40) Start Spoilers

(1:07:51) Plugs and Training for Next Week

Welcome to Heroes Three podcast! We're beginning our annual host picks to close out the year with Frankie Chan's Outlaw Brothers from 1990 starring Frankie, Yukari Oshima, and Max Mok!

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Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(01:14) Why The Outlaw Brothers

(03:20) Marty Thoughts

(06:45) Cars!

(08:32) The H3 Checklist, Music, and outfits

(11:27) BotVHS

(11:53) Movie Recap

(18:28) Music clip Genius of Love

(04:53) Final Thoughts

(05:23) Plugs and training for next week

Welcome to Heroes Three podcast! This week we're keeping the Halloween decorations up as we discuss Tsui Hark's We're Going to Eat You starring Norman Chui and Eddy Ko!

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Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(1:16) Why this movie

(3:26) Carlos and Marty initial thoughts

(6:19) Tsui Hark style and influences

(10:36) Hong Kong character actors!

(16:06) The music

(17:28) Horror and Action

(19:33) Back of the VHS

(20:09) Movie Recap

(53:32) Final thoughts

(1:01:56) Plugs and training for next week

Welcome to Heroes Three podcast! This week we're joined by SWIMFANS co-host Jennifer Hocking to close out our summer arc with 2002's critically acclaimed crime drama, Infernal Affairs!

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⁠Listen to SWIMFANS!⁠

Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(1:09) Jennifer Hocking

(2:00) The Departed

(7:51) Andrew Lau and behind the scenes stuff

(13:14) Back of the VHS

(13:58) Movie Recap

(1:20:53) Final thoughts

(1:29:40) Listen to Swimfans!

(1:33:25) The End??

Welcome to Heroes Three podcast! 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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Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(0:52) Why Zebraman

(4:05) Matthew's History

(5:59) Marty's Experience

(9:47) Miike as a director

(14:30) Zebraman Production

(20:11) Show Aikawa

(22:40) Back of the VHS

(23:27) Movie Recap

(58:50) Final thoughts

(1:00:14) Zebraman 2

(1:03:03) Plugs and training for next week

Welcome to Heroes Three podcast! This week we're joined by The Fanatical Dragon to celebrate 150 episodes and discuss Jackie Chan's take on Indiana Jones/James Bond, Armour of God!

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Check out the Mic'd Avengers Podcast!

Welcome to Heroes Three podcast! This week we're talking Spielberg and Wong Jing with the martial arts comedy adventure, The Magic Crystal starring Andy Lau, Cynthia Rothrock, and Richard Norton!

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TimesSqKungFU compares the 88films and Vinegar Syndrome BR release of Magic Crystal

Cynthia talks Magic Crystal!

Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(2:37) The fight choreography

(4:09) The TWO blu ray releases!

(9:36) Production background

(16:08) Carlos history with the film

(18:06) Back of the VHS

(18:42) Movie recap

(1:25:52) Plugs and Training for next episode

Welcome back to Heroes Three podcast! This week we're putting our protective gear on and running straight into the fire as we discuss the South Korean disaster film, The Tower directed by Kim Ji-Hoon!

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Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(0:51) Why The Tower

(1:13) Disaster Movie Talk

(12:23) Overall thoughts

(20:14) Back of the VHS

(20:51) Movie recap

(58:08) Final thoughts

(1:02:39) Plugs and training for next week

Welcome back to Heroes Three podcast! Join us as we have a little fun celebrating 8 years of the show!

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Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(1:23) Outed for having a podcast

(4:24) Quiz question 1

(6:08 Question 2

(6:13) Burp diversion

(6:48) Question 2 for real

(10:55) Question 3

(13:33) Question 4

(16:50) Question 5

(20:16) Question 6

(23:20) Question 7

(29:51) Matthew's Question

(32:35) Marty's Question

(36:54) Carlos G-Fest Update

(42:17) Let's talk about this street fighter live action movie casting

(51:34) Wrapping up