Little White Lies

10 stories

Little White LiesThe Wall Between Us: Possession at 45

10.19

Little White LiesMaking Marie Antoinette review – passing the baton

10.19

Little White Lies7 Miles Out – first-look review

10.17

Little White LiesKlara and the Sun review – send it back to the factory

10.15

Little White LiesProgrammers Picks from the London Breeze Film Festival

10.15

Little White LiesWhalefall review – an underwhale-ming survival story

10.15

Little White LiesRebellion – first-look review

10.14

Little White LiesCase 137 review – dodgy cops get a taste of their own medicine

10.14

Little White LiesForgotten Island review – pop-culture nostalgia overload

10.14

Little White LiesNaza review – confronting the horrors of genocide

10.13

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