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。

← Cinepuuulse Archive

YonhapKorea

BIFF names Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou as Competition jury chief

September 17

SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Yonhap) -- Renowned Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou has been tapp...

Festivals & awards Directors

Read at Yonhap ↗

UK‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence The Guardian Film

EuropeInterview: Manuel Wetscher • Director of Eklipse - “It’s about engaging with my own material and exploring how it can be used artistically” - Venice 2026 – Orizzonti Cineuropa

EuropeInterview: Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni • Directors of Diane in the Loop - "The western cannot be reserved for male wounds" - Venice 2026 - Orizzonti Cineuropa

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

BIFF names Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou as Competition jury chief

Related

KoreaLee congratulates S. Korean director on Venice film festival award Yonhap

IndiaAnant Nag to be honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke award The Hindu — Movies

EuropeVenice 2026: The Verdict The Film Verdict

UK‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence The Guardian Film

EuropeInterview: Manuel Wetscher • Director of Eklipse - “It’s about engaging with my own material and exploring how it can be used artistically” - Venice 2026 – Orizzonti Cineuropa

EuropeInterview: Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni • Directors of Diane in the Loop - "The western cannot be reserved for male wounds" - Venice 2026 - Orizzonti Cineuropa