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!

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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!

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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) Novel talk

(22:46) A bit about puppets

(25:34) Movie talk

(41:50) Tanget on 90s alt comedy

(42:41) Movie talk 2

(1:07:59) Book ending and final thoughts

(1:13:41) Plugs and Training for next week

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) Zhang Yimou Background

(7:51) Different kind of movie for Heroes Three

(9:21) Matthew's limited Yimou experience

(10:52) Gong Li and Red Sorghum

(14:24) Movie Discussion

(1:09:18) Final Thoughts

(1:13:29) Plugs and Training for next week

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

Onimusha 3: Demon Siege intro cinematic from 2004 directed by Takashi Yamazaki, with fight choreography by Donnie Yen and Kenji Tanigaki

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Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(01:05) The Heroes Three catch up

(05:42) A Cup of Tea

(11:37) The Boy Who Cheated Death

(16:02) Gurren Lagann Parallel Works Ep 8

(26:51) Onimusha 3 Intro

(39:31) Plugs and training for next week

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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Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(3:00) Production background

(6:36) Carlos and Matthew Initial Thoughts

(8:40) Hong Kong cross talk with hollywood

(11:01) Movie Thoughts

(16:05) Gong Li: Too Hot for Taiwan?

(26:22) Back to the movie

(58:40) Possible releases in the US

(1:01:14) Ng Man-tat and Stephen Chow

(1:03:10) Final thoughts and plugs

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

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Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(1:35) Carlos's "The Host" history

(2:58) Marty's "The Host" History

(8:01) The strengths of this movie

(13:05) The cast

(16:29) Carlos plot recap

(20:18) Movie discussion

(54:30) Final Thoughts

(56:06) Plugs and training for next week

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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Making Memories Documentary

Read the Memories short by Otomo here!

Animation Obsessive's great writing on Magnetic Rose here!

Weird cel wobble from Fist of the North Star

Timestamps

(0:00) Intro

(0:52) Why Memories

(2:49) Carlos Memories memories

(7:54) Marty's surprising Memories memories

(11:27) Matthew's Memories first time

(16:10) Production History

(19:26) Based on a true story??

(20:53) Wrong info online

(23:08) Magnetic Rose

(37:11) Stink Bomb

(52:54) Cannon Fodder

(1:04:56) Final thoughts

(1:09:51) Outro and training for next week

This week, we take a detour to hear about Carlos's super fun trip to Japan! Ninja museum, boar encounters, and

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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)!

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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