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RogerEbert.comBusan 2026: Zogsool, Full Moon, Beyond Love’s Horizon

10.18

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10.16

RogerEbert.comA Knock at the Door: Cristian Mungiu on “Fjord”

10.16

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10.15

RogerEbert.comEditing As Music: An Interview with “The English Patient” Craftsman Walter Murch

10.15

RogerEbert.comBusan 2026: Birds in the Dark, Selvi, 1982

10.15

RogerEbert.com“The Diplomat” Season 4 Finds New Ways to Up the Series’ Geopolitical and Interpersonal Stakes

10.15

RogerEbert.comChicago International Film Festival 2026 Preview

10.14

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

One letter a week, starting soon.

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