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

← Cinepuuulse Archive

Cinecittà NewsItaly

Efebo d’Oro, a Palermo un focus sul cinema di Damien Odoul

10.21

Il programma comprende quattro film. tra cui l'anteprima nazionale di À la grâce de Dieu (2026), documentario dedicato a un artista di Kinshasa che segna l'addio al cinema del…

Premi

Read at Cinecittà News ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Efebo d’Oro, a Palermo un focus sul cinema di Damien Odoul

More from Cinecittà News on Cinepuuulse

ItalyPaolo Strippoli e Mauro Repetto a Trieste Science+Fiction Festival Cinecittà News

Italy‘Suspiria’ celebra i 50 anni a Verona con concerto Cinecittà News

Italy‘Cambogia’. Nel multiverso di Lundini con un film che parla di una serie tv Cinecittà News

ItalyLivatino, Michele Placido da ‘La piovra’ al giudice beato Cinecittà News

ItalyJulianne Moore omaggia le grandi signore del musical Cinecittà News

ItalyCreatività e Intelligenza Artificiale, le sfide dell’audiovisivo Cinecittà News