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映画祭 · What's on the festival calendar — Asia first, then the world — the films each region is talking about, and what its press is covering

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On screens this week the newest stills from the region's press

The wire the region's press, translated

How Asia watches in 2026 from the industry's own reports

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Fetched every three hours, linked to the original

About

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo

All films

16 films made with generative models. Every fact names its source; tools are listed only when the makers state them.

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Çukur: VartoluByUmut Aral · Ay YapımFormFeatureMade withNot stated; dialogue recorded by human voice actorsWherePrime Video · worldwide A Woman AsleepByVikki BardotFormFeatureMade withNot statedWhereTurkish theatrical rights · Sep 2026 Be BraveByFrancesco CarrozziniFormDocumentaryMade withNot statedWhereVenice · 10 Sep 2026 Castle WallsByAy Yapım · TürkiyeFormSeries · 2 × 15′Made withChatGPT, Midjourney, Runway, Google Nano Banana, Veo, Kling, ComfyUI, TopazWherePrime Video · Aug 2026 Dreams of VioletsByAsh KooshaFormFeatureMade withAI tools only (none named)WhereTribeca 2026 · world premiere A Face Only A Mother Could LoveByRobert GaudetteFormShort · 07:50Made withNot statedWhereRunway AIF 2026 · Grand Prix THE WELLByDorian & DanielFormShort · 05:29Made withNot statedWhereRunway AIF 2026 · Gold Where Knights FallByMatheryFormShortMade withNot statedWhereRunway AIF 2026 · Silver TOKYO STORIESByMinoru Kusakabe · JapanFormShort · 04:01Made withGenerative AI, including local LLMsWhereShort Shorts 2026 I’m PopoByKim Il-dong · KoreaFormFeatureMade withNot statedWhereKorean cinemas · 21 May 2026 Man in HanbokByKoreaFormFeatureMade withNot statedWhereKorean cinemas · 21 May 2026 Code:G — The Beginning of AttentionByKT · KoreaFormFeature · OmnibusMade withNot statedWhereCGV · from 27 December Run to the WestByKang Yun-sung · KoreaFormFeature · c. 60′Made withNot statedWhereCGV · Oct 2025 ANCESTRAByEliza McNittFormShortMade withVeoWhereGoogle · Jun 2025 Twins HinahimaByTV anime · JapanFormSeriesMade with“Supportive AI”WhereJapanese TV · from 29 Mar 2025 GATESByAdam TaiebFormShort · 3:16Made withSeedance on DreaminaWhereYouTube · on Cinepuuulse Releases

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