The Spinoff: latest Asian cinema stories

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The SpinoffNew ZealandWhen a homeless person becomes the news A murder trial is asking who killed Ross Kennedy. Ruben Miller asks why we weren ’ t paying attention before. A friend texted me earlier this week about a murder trial under way in Rotorua. She said it had made her feel

September 5

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The SpinoffNew ZealandReview: Lomu shows why Jonah became a global phenomenon A documentary about his life was inevitable, but Lomu will mean different things to different people. “Lomu! Oh! Oh!” That famous line of rugby commentary from Keith Quinn manages to describe nothing and everything about

September 4

The SpinoffNew ZealandWhere to eat in Gisborne – an insider’s guide From karaage, to cream doughnuts, to a special-occasion restaurant perched above a surf club. A slice of beaming beauty with its sandy beaches, rugged coastline, fairly reliable sunshine, and some of the best surfing on

September 4

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The SpinoffNew ZealandThe Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending September 4 The top 10 sales lists recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND 1 Ordinary People Like Us by Kelly Ana Morey (Moa Press, $38) A year on from Kelly Ana Morey’s d

September 4

The SpinoffNew ZealandThe future diplomat who let down Muldoon’s tyres the night he called a snap election ‘I think we deserve a medal for it,’ says Tim Groser of his role in the great Triumph sabotage of 1984. On the evening of June 14 1984, Sir Robert Muldoon called a snap election. Then he got drunk. But when the prime min

September 3

Cinepuuulse is a magazine, a radar and a diary about Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — read from Tokyo.

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku, the old word for the silver screen; it is the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. A magazine, because every week one film is worth reading about slowly. A radar, because we count what the region's screens are talking about — box office, festivals, directors, anime, streaming — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We read the local press in its own languages and bring it over in English: the Japanese film sites, the Korean trade papers, the Chinese culture desks, the Vietnamese and Thai entertainment pages. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Cinepuuulse will keep changing. New sources, new signals, new ways of looking — a little better each week, never finished. If a film here made you want to buy a ticket, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。