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Liam Neeson-Produced ‘The Lost Children of Tuam,’ About Secret Mass Burial of Irish Kids, Confronts a Painful Historical Chapter (Exclusive Trailer)

The Hollywood ReporterLiam Neeson-Produced ‘The Lost Children of Tuam,’ About Secret Mass Burial of Irish Kids, Confronts a Painful Historical Chapter (Exclusive Trailer) Monica Dolan stars as an amateur historian who uncovered the scandal in director Frank Berry's film, which will get its international premiere at TIFF after its world debut at Galway.

September 4

Real SoundJapan'Ghost in the Shell' Summarises the Dollmaster History; New Anime OVA Challenges the Definition of Life

September 4

Animation Magazine

Animation Magazine‘Mononoke the Movie: The Curse of the Serpent’ Director Shares the Creative Vision of the Third Feature The Mononoke movies are the latest evolution of stories that go back many years, beginning with the 2006 anime anthology series Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales. The original 2007 Mononoke series was itself a spinoff of Ay

September 3

RogerEbert.com“Onimusha: Way of the Sword” is a Drawn-Out Samurai Epic

August 31

MUBI NotebookInherit the Wind: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “The Samurai and the Prisoner”

August 31

Cinema EscapistAsiaReview: Raymond Red’s “Manila’s Finest” Depicts a Slow Yet Visceral Journey Through the 1970s Philippines

July 18

Cinema EscapistAsiaReview: Korean Historical Film “Hallan” Confronts the Buried Horror of the Jeju 4.3 Uprising

July 13

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。