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

The Hindu — MoviesIndia

‘Musafiri’: Trailer of Richa Chadha’s non-fiction series unveiled

September 19

The eight-episode series will uncover stories of people and places of Mumbai

Documentary

Read at The Hindu — Movies ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

‘Musafiri’: Trailer of Richa Chadha’s non-fiction series unveiled

Related

UKFrom ovations in Venice to death threats in Israel: the extreme responses to NAZA documentary The Guardian Film

UKPulp: What Do You Do for an Encore? review – Jarvis Cocker’s wit and warmth upstage the hits The Guardian Film

UKRemake: A heartbreaking exploration of the slippage between documentary and fiction BFI / Sight and Sound

UKPulp: What Do You Do for an Encore?: Documentary charts the thrilling story of Pulp, with a few forgivable omissions BFI / Sight and Sound

UK50 Years of Punk review – rock’n’roll rebels fondly recall the filth and fury a half-century on The Guardian Film

UKThe Watergate Caper: Richard Nixon and the Death of the American Dream review – political scandal, 70s style The Guardian Film