Awards Daily: latest Asian cinema stories

Awards Daily

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Awards Daily

Awards DailyUSANextGen Oscarwatcher – The Power of the Crowd-Pleaser It’s interesting to experience a film festival (in this case, Telluride) and then witness both the conclusion of the Venice Film Festival and the occurrence of the Toronto International Film Festival- one that highlights

September 14

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Awards DailyUSAI Play Rocky – Film Twitter Snobs Determined to Ruin It and Everything Else What a mess the Oscar race is now. People always ask me why everything sucks now. Why doesn’t anyone watch the movies? Why do the movies almost always seem like the same movie? Why does no one watch the show? Well, this

September 13

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Awards DailyUSAThe Buzzmeter: How Tom Cruise and the Oscars Brought the Country Together After 9/11 9/11 hit the country hard back in 2001. We had no idea people in the Middle East were that angry at us. We certainly never expected that terrorists – a word Hollywood and the Left can barely say now – had embedded themse

September 13

Awards DailyUSAMr. Irrelevant Trailer – Shoot it Straight Into My Veins America needs Hopecore from the movies more than almost anything else. For years now, all we’ve gotten is Bummercore. Existential angst by the ruling class has become as dull as a butter knife. But it feels like there is

September 13

Awards DailyUSABest Picture Watch: I Play Rocky Blows the Lid off the Joint in Toronto Hold up. We might have our scrappy underdog to take on THE FRONTRUNNER. I Play Rocky, the latest movie by Peter Farrelly just had a bananas screening at TIFF. Looks to me like your audience award winner and honestly, I’d

September 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。