Hong Kong Free Press

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Hong Kong Free PressHong KongHong Kong deploys extra staff as revamped Huanggang Port sees over 150,000 daily trips over long weekend Hong Kong’s revamped Huanggang Port checkpoint has logged over 150,000 trips in a single day over the Chung Yeung Festival long weekend, facing its first real stress test since opening last week.

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Hong Kong Free PressHong KongDid Chinese cars squeal on Norway’s military? By Pierre-Henry Deshayes Chinese-made cars filmed sensitive information during a Norwegian military exercise, including access codes at secure sites and officials’ comings and goings, raising…

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Hong Kong Free PressHong KongDozens of Hong Kong Christian groups petition against tourism body’s ‘Halloween Month’ campaign Dozens of Christian groups in Hong Kong have signed a petition against a “Halloween Month” campaign launched by the city’s tourism body on the grounds that celebrating the western ghost festival…

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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