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

MicropsiaArgentina

Estrenos: crítica de ‘Insaciable’ (‘Saccharine’), de Natalie Erika James (Prime Video)

11.07

Con tres largos en su haber, la realizadora australiano-japonesa de Relic y Apartment 7A ya es una experimentada directora de cine de terror.

Streaming

Read at Micropsia ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Estrenos: crítica de ‘Insaciable’ (‘Saccharine’), de Natalie Erika James (Prime Video)

Related

ArgentinaEstrenos online: crítica de «Dreams: Sueños», de Michel Franco (Disney+) Micropsia

Argentina‘Black Doves’ Netflix Review: Keira Knightley And Ben Whishaw Make A Far-Fetched Spy Story Hold Together Micropsia

ArgentinaSeries: reseña de ‘Palomas negras – Temporada 2’ (‘Black Doves’), de Joe Barton (Netflix) Micropsia

ArgentinaEstrenos online: crítica de ‘Backrooms: sin salida’, de Kane Parsons (Disney+) Micropsia

BrazilCrítica 2 | Vicentina Pede Desculpas – Rejane Faria BRILHA em Dolorido Drama na Netflix CinePOP

FrancePlus que quelques jours sur Netflix : cette comédie aux 2 millions d'entrées avec Ked Adams va quitter la plateforme ! AlloCiné — actu ciné