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

Il pubblico in sala torna ai livelli pre-Covid. Boom di under 35

10.22

Il cinema continua a occupare un posto centrale nelle abitudini degli italiani e la passione per i film si esprime attraverso la sala ma anche lo streaming, che non sono più “nemici”.

AI in film

Read at Cinecittà News ↗

UK‘I’d consider replacing one of my children’: Taika Waititi on robot kids, his cheese-o-meter and Klara and the Sun The Guardian Film

VietnamWhy viewers can't stop watching AI-generated short dramas VnExpress International

France“J’ai voulu des images qui donnent le temps de réfléchir à ce qui s’est passé à Gaza” : entretien avec le réalisateur de “Qui vit encore” Télérama — Cinéma

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Il pubblico in sala torna ai livelli pre-Covid. Boom di under 35

Related

UK‘I’d consider replacing one of my children’: Taika Waititi on robot kids, his cheese-o-meter and Klara and the Sun The Guardian Film

VietnamWhy viewers can't stop watching AI-generated short dramas VnExpress International

France“J’ai voulu des images qui donnent le temps de réfléchir à ce qui s’est passé à Gaza” : entretien avec le réalisateur de “Qui vit encore” Télérama — Cinéma

Hong KongHow AI is reshaping microdramas as the vertical video format takes a ‘generational jump’ SCMP Film

ChinaChinese Users Find Little Money in ‘Selling’ Their Faces to AI Sixth Tone

ChinaChina’s DeepZang AI Aims to Improve Tibetan Translation Sixth Tone