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.

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Mike Leigh se retira con honores en San Sebastián con ‘Tender Loving Care’, Concha de Oro de la 74ª edición

September 28

‘Tender Loving Care’ (Reino Unido), el trabajo de despedida de Mike Leigh, ha sido el gran triunfador de la 74ª edición del Festival de San Sebastián.

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Mike Leigh se retira con honores en San Sebastián con ‘Tender Loving Care’, Concha de Oro de la 74ª edición

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