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Anime News NetworkJapanCloverWorks' Omnibus Anime Film Grotesqqque Streams 'Yoroshiku★Girl' Segment Early on Netflix for Limited Time Segment streams on October 23-November 5, ahead of film's November 6 opening

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Anime News NetworkJapanEST N8 Picks Up Korean-Animated Film Pilgrims for Worldwide Sales Japan Sinks: 2020's Pyoungkang Heo directs film starring Hyang-gi Kim, Ji-hu Park, Joo-young Lee

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Anime News NetworkJapanStar Detective Precure! Film Becomes Highest-Grossing Standalone Film in Precure Franchise Film has earned estimated 1.24 billion yen in 1st month of screening, surpassing 2024's Wonderful Precure! The Movie! Dokidoki♡Game no Sekai de Daibōken!

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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