Blade Licking Thieves - An Anime, Kaiju, And Asian Movie Podcast

Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, and Corey Yuen star in this hyper-kinetic supernatural comedy, Zu Warriors From the Magic Mountain, a special effects laden wuxia film from Hong Kong director Tsui Hark about an ordinary Chinese solider who, after stumbling into a world of fantastical supernatural battles between the forces of good and evil, must embark on a quest to save the universe.     Timestamps: [00:00] Films we've been watching, Chainsaw Man, Shenmue the Animation, Anno's Shin Ultraman Trailer [49:05] Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain Review [2:15:38] Twitter Questions

We review Korean director Bong Joon-ho's class-conscious thriller Parasite, a black comedy about the Kims, a scrappy lower class family living on the edge of subsistence in Seoul, who through luck and by hook or crook manage to gain employment as help in the household of their incredibly wealthy city neighbors, the Parks, only to realize much too late that their stroke of good fortune portends a much darker misfortune.   Timestamps: [00:00] Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 and Konosuba [29:00] Parasite Review [2:15:30] Twitter Questions

We chat about the Ip Man franchise, discuss the influences and merits of the original Mobile Suit Gundam, and lastly review one of the premiere anime titles of the 1990s: Macross Plus Movie Edition, an explosive work, by Macross series creator Shoji Kawamori and the core creative talent later responsible for a little known title called Cowboy Bebop, that twenty seven years after its release has lost none of its original impact. Timestamps: [00:00] Ip Man 2-4, Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 [43:42] Macross Plus Movie Edition Review [3:21:09] Twitter Questions

BLT Team B review Stuart Gordon's 1986 body horror film, From Beyond.  Like Gordon's prior film, Re-Animator, also starring Jeffrey Combs, From Beyond is based on an H.P. Lovecraft short story - this one involving inter dimensional creatures brought into our reality through a science experiment gone awry with, as you might imagine, predictably gruesome results for those involved.

We review the 2017 Hong Kong gangster film, Chasing the Dragon,  the story of the rise and fall of Hong Kong's most notorious gangster "Crippled Ho" (Donnie Yen) and his unlikely partnership with Police Detective Lee Rock (Andy Lau) during the cities' most turbulent and lawless decades, the 1960s and 1970s, during the height of the heroin trade. Timestamps: [00:00] Tenchi Universe, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, Star Wars: Visions [50:27] Chasing the Dragon (2017) Review [2:14:25] Twitter Questions

We review the ingenious Japanese horror / comedy One Cut of the Dead from Japanese filmmaker Shinichiro Ueda. Timestamps: [00:00] Dragon Quest Dai and Cowboy Bebop Live Action [58:27] One Cut of the Dead Review [2:02:30] Twitter Questions

BLT Team B review British filmmaker Ken Russell's horror / comedy cult classic, The Lair of the White Worm (1988), starring a young Hugh Grant, Peter Capaldi of Dr. Who, and the provocatively bewitching Amanda Donohue.

After the hell year that was 2020, the Thieves are at long last back on the couch together!  We catch up by chatting about the zaniness that is Record of Ragnarok and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5, discuss Heat's ongoing mission to ruin movies watch a new movie every day and how that's been going, bum ourselves out with a double dose of sad news items, and finally give our thoughts on Studio Trigger and Hiroyuki Imaishi's first feature film, the loud, energetic, and joyously colorful, 3DCG/2D hybrid from - can you believe it? - the year 2019: PROMARE. Timestamps: [00:00] Intro + We've Been Watching [43:28] News [1:04:22] Review

BLT Team B review Don Bluth's directorial debut, the cult-classic, animated feature film: The Secret of NIMH (1982).

Special guest David Bednar (@ykarps) joins us on the show to chat about two of his favorite '90s Tokusatsu films, the action filled, science fiction cult classics, Zeiram and Zeiram 2, from the creative mind of artist / director Keita Amemiya.   Timestamps: [00:00] Intro + What We've Been Watching: Violet Evergarden, Alita, Cyber Punk Movies, One Piece, Golden Kamuy [43:17] Zeiram [1:23:10] Zeiram 2

Classic Tatsunoko super heroes return in this cross dimensional, team up film follow up to the 2017 CG animated Infini-T Force series by Tatsunoko and Digital Frontier studios. Tune in for the full review of Infini-T Force: Farewell, Friend!

Not satisfied with reviewing just one Jack Frost movie this season -- oh no, not this Christmas buster! -- the Team B crew had to go and review two of them. For your listening pleasure, here's Jack Frost (1997) a.k.a. the snowman slasher film.

Team B review Jack Frost (1998): the Michael Keaton film in which he plays a neglectful father and musician who, after dying in a fatal automobile accident, is given one last chance to make things right when his son summons him back to life (using a magical harmonica he gifted him on the eve of his death) as a wisecracking, fun-loving snowman - Oh Joy!

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming this evening to bring you a scream filled night of ghouls, ghosts, vampires, and kung fu. *Record Scratch* You heard me! On tonight's Blade Licking Thieves spooktacular we're watching the 1974 Hammer Films and Shaw Brothers co-production, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, in which Hammer Films regular, Peter Cushing (a.k.a. Grand Moff Tarkin), reprising his role as the legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing, teams up with Hong Kong martial art superstar David Chiang (and a host of other Shaw Brothers talent of the 70s) to wage battle against Count Dracula and the 7 Golden Vampires of China in a one of a kind East meets West genre mashup.

Team B are back at it once again: enduring the pain, so we don't have to. This episode they're taking a bite out of director Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers (2002). It's an action / horror film about a group of soldiers on a rescue mission that's about to go horribly wrong -- when werewolves attack!

Our series of donation funded listener requests continues with a Blade Licking Thieves' double feature! First, we have a review of Tatsuo Sato and Masaaki Yuasa's short, surreal and slightly twisted 2001 OVA, Cat Soup, based on the manga by the late Nekojiro. And, lastly, we review One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island, the sixth film in the long running shonen action series by Eiichiro Oda, notable for being directed by Mamoru Hosoda (a year before he would go on to achieve monumental success with his next feature, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time). Cat Soup Review (5:46) | Twitter Questions (36:08) OP: Baron Omatsuri Review (41:23) | Twitter Questions (1:58:36)

Ultra cool grouch and Hideo Kojima love interest Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) has twenty four hours to rescue the President of the United States from the world’s largest maximum security prison, New York City.  Tune in to find out whether Snake is a bad enough dude to save the president as BLT Team B check out John Carpenter’s cult classic Escape from New York (1981).

We're kicking off our series of listener requests with Guillermo Del Toro's love letter to the Kaiju and Mecha genres: Pacific Rim - so, tune in, enter the drift with us, and let's cancel the apocalypse! Review (17:14) Twitter Questions (1:42:05 )

BLT Team B review Color Out of Space, writer-director Richard Stanley's new film adaptation of the classic H.P. Lovecraft horror short story, featuring the latest and greatest advancements in CAGE RAGE™ technology.

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY.    That's it.  That's the blurb.  Review (43:13)