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Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysia‘Baasha’ composer Deva, king of Tamil cinema’s ‘gana’ sound, dies at 75 CHENNAI, Oct 17 — Indian music composer Deva, hugely popular for his unique ‘gana’ style, died here to...

October 17

Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysia‘Street Fighter’ packs a nostalgic punch: Malaysian fans embrace the chaos but question the plot KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 17 — The latest Street Fighter movie is bringing the arcade classic back to the big screen with...

October 17

Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysia‘We’re getting old’: Coen brothers tease long-awaited filmmaking reunion after eight years apart LYON, Oct 17 — Oscar-winning filmmaker brothers Ethan and Joel Coen told AFP they plan to make another movie toget...

October 17

Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysiaBlind filmmaker fights to reclaim place in creative industry after losing sight KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 17 — More than three years after losing his sight, actor and director Muhammad Iqbal...

October 17

Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysiaMike Leigh, 83, wishes he could make ‘a hundred more films’ as ill health takes its toll LONDON, Oct 16 — British filmmaker Mike Leigh said he wished he could make “another hundred films” but...

October 16

Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysiaMalay Mail’s Top 10 picks: ‘Other Mommy’ defies mixed reviews to top Malaysian box office as ‘Kudrat 1968’ ends Netflix run at No. 1 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 — Mixed reviews haven’t stopped Other Mommy from scaring its way to the top of the Mala...

October 16

Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysia‘Street Fighter’ movie is cheesy nostalgia for franchise fans and 80s kids KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15 — The Street Fighter movie opens today in Malaysia — will it do better than its other 8...

October 15

Malay Mail ShowbizMalaysiaThe truth is still out there: ‘Sinners’ director Ryan Coogler’s ‘X-Files’ reboot officially gets the green light PARIS, Oct 15 — Sinners director Ryan Coogler is set to make a new series of The X-Files, with British actor...

October 15

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