Dramabeans

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DramabeansKorea[Drama Chat] An ode to subtitles If it weren’t for subtitles, I never would have started watching dramas. And in the beginning, subtitles didn’t just translate the text, but also the cultural pieces that can’t be captured in a word…

October 18

DramabeansKoreaPremiere Watch: Love in Disguise Time slot: Monday & Tuesday Broadcaster: tvN Genre: Crime, rom-com, suspense, workplace Episode count: 12 Global streamer: Amazon Prime Reasons to watch: Costumes can’t fool love in the tvN workplace…

October 18

DramabeansKoreaCrash 2 returns with Lee Min-ki, Kwak Sun-young, Heo Sung-tae Heo Sung-tae, Moon-hee, Lee Min-ki, Kwak Sun-young, Lee Ho-chul ENA is revving up for Crash 2 next month, calling back Lee Min-ki (Mary Kills People), Kwak Sun-young (The Scarecrow), and Heo Sung-tae…

October 16

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