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Scroll.in (all) — film filterIndiaFace-off with China continues at several locations along Arunachal border: ITBP chief Confrontations between Indian and Chinese troops have been taking place at several locations along the Arunachal Pradesh border, The Hindu quoted Indo-Tibetan Border Police Director General…

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Scroll.in (all) — film filterIndiaReview: ‘Doosra’ tries to force-fit two incompatible ideas Abhinay Deo’s Doosra refers to, all at once, the delivery style in cricket, the endeavour of the story’s heroine to seek an alternative to her miserable life and the film’s hybrid form.

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Scroll.in (all) — film filterIndia‘Chaar Yaar’ review: Too many moving parts in a show about reluctant carjackers After escaping a particularly frenetic shootout, the narrator of Chaar Yaar says, “This was like a movie...

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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