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

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France[Tournage] Arthur Dupont et Judith Chemla unis dans le premier long de Renaud Le Bas Le Film français — Cinéma

Argentina‘Tony’ Prime Video Review: Dominic Sessa and Antonio Banderas Shine in a Rough-Edged Portrait of Anthony Bourdain as a Cocky Teenager Micropsia

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Spain"Suena con fuerza para los Premios Oscar": Esta película ya es uno de los fenómenos cinéfilos del año y está emocionando a la crítica por todos los festivales de cine del mundo Fotogramas

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