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

El Mundo — CineSpain

Naomi Watts: "Fuera donde fuera, siempre me he sentido una extranjera"

September 19

La actriz, que recibe el Premio Donostia a la vez que presenta La esposa perfecta, habla de dar vida a un monstruo, de sus orígenes con David Lynch y de su condición de outsider en la industria del…

Read at El Mundo — Cine ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Naomi Watts: "Fuera donde fuera, siempre me he sentido una extranjera"

More from El Mundo — Cine on Cinepuuulse

Spain5 minutos más: Javier Ruiz Caldera concentra todos los apocalipsis del mundo en un bucle prodigioso de 300 segundos (****) El Mundo — Cine

SpainLa esposa perfecta: solo Naomi Watts queda a salvo de un errático y torpe drama con el Holocausto al fondo (**) El Mundo — Cine

SpainCoyote vs. Acme: La fe del humillado en un frenético delirio entre la realidad y el deseo (****) El Mundo — Cine

SpainTiempo de victoria: Un muy tormentoso thriller con un enorme Andrew Scott en el vórtice de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (***) El Mundo — Cine