Historical & period

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SoompiKoreaLee Hyun Wook Dishes On His First Epic Historical Drama “Sword & Silence,” His Role As A Future King, And More Lee Hyun Wook has shared his thoughts on taking on his first epic historical drama with “Sword & Silence.” Directed by Kim Yeong Jo of “Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth,” “Sword & Silence” tells the…

10.19

CinemacafeJapan「やらない理由はなかった」新時代劇『文武』主演イ・ヒョヌク、新羅第30代王キム・ボムミン役へ意気込み俳優イ・ヒョヌクが、歴史の大きなうねりの中で三国統一を成し遂げた王の物語を壮大に描く。

10.19

MicropsiaArgentina‘Possession’ Review: Jamaica’s Colonial Sins Come Back To Haunt Its Present In A Brutal Genre Ride The colonial and slavery legacy of Jamaica is at the center of Possession , a British series that arrives after premiering in the UK last August.

10.18

BFI / Sight and SoundUKThe Uprising: A murky retelling of the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt Paul Greengrass’s 14th-century historical drama keeps the action moving, but leaves its character development in the mud.

10.08

EasternkicksAsiaSamurai Vengeance

09.24

Film CommentLocarno 2026: Life During Wartime

08.20

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