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Tuoi TreVietnamAvengers: Endgame Returns to Vietnamese Screens, Seizes Box‑Office Record

September 4

Sixth ToneChinaBehind China’s Unlikely Box-Office Hit, Indie Filmmakers Struggle to Be Seen The amateur-made “Niu Lai” found an audience against the odds. Thousands of other low-budget Chinese films never get the same chance.

September 4

Deadline‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Crossing $900M U.S. Today, 2nd Pic To Hit Rare Milestone; ‘By Any Means’ $725K In Previews – Box Office It’s finally happening, and nobody, I mean nobody saw this coming: Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day is hitting $900 million at the domestic box office today, not only the second movie to ever cross that threshold

September 4

Cartoon BrewViral Chinese Hit ‘Niu Lai’ Projected To Top $9M After Selling Fewer Than 300 Tickets In Its First 10 Days The mother-and-son production expanded from fewer than five daily screenings to about 22,000 at its peak, turning online mockery into a theatrical phenomenon.

September 2

YonhapKoreaBusan film fest ticket sales to begin Sept. 17 SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Yonhap) -- Ticket sales for events of the annual Busan Internati...

September 2

Cartoon BrewCoyote’s Box Office Bow; Tippett Fire Sale; New Pokémon Feature Coyote vs. Acme opened to a Wile E. start, grossing $23.9 million worldwide, including a stronger-than-projected $15.5 million domestic debut. To mark its release, Vincent Alexander also assembled Exhibits A … Continued

September 1

The Japan TimesJapanChiikawa is small in stature but huge at the box office Following the success of "Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of Mermaid Island," interactive and immersive screenings are planned across Japan.

August 24

HanCinemaKoreaKorean Box Office for the Weekend 2026.08.21 ~ 2026.08.23 (2026/08/23) The number one movie this week is 'The Odyssey'.

August 23

Cinepuuulse is a magazine, a radar and a diary about Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — read from Tokyo.

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku, the old word for the silver screen; it is the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. A magazine, because every week one film is worth reading about slowly. A radar, because we count what the region's screens are talking about — box office, festivals, directors, anime, streaming — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We read the local press in its own languages and bring it over in English: the Japanese film sites, the Korean trade papers, the Chinese culture desks, the Vietnamese and Thai entertainment pages. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Cinepuuulse will keep changing. New sources, new signals, new ways of looking — a little better each week, never finished. If a film here made you want to buy a ticket, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。