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

Audiovisual451Spain

Un total de 46 cortometrajes participarán en la 55ª edición de ALCINE, Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares

October 6

ALCINE, el Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares / Comunidad de Madrid, ha dado a conocer los 46 títulos seleccionados para competir en el Certamen Nacional y Europeo de su 55ª edición.

Festivals & awards K-drama & series

Read at Audiovisual451 ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Un total de 46 cortometrajes participarán en la 55ª edición de ALCINE, Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares

Related

UK‘Artificial’ review: Andrew Garfield impresses as OpenAI’s Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s surprisingly toothless AI thriller Screen Daily Reviews

Korea6 K-Dramas With Characters That Have Double Lives Soompi

KoreaKim So Hyun’s Visit To Choo Young Woo’s Robotics Lab Goes Awry In “Between Steps” Soompi

KoreaBIFF opening film 'The Table: Day and Night' turns to the quotidian Yonhap

Japan織田裕二×石黒賢「振り返れば奴がいる」10月14日より放送開始！三谷幸喜脚本の名作医療ドラマシネマトゥデイ

ItalyBelieve Film Festival 2026, Tommaso Landucci tra gli ospiti Cinecittà News

Latest

Un total de 46 cortometrajes participarán en la 55ª edición de ALCINE, Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares

Related

UK‘Artificial’ review: Andrew Garfield impresses as OpenAI’s Sam Altman in Luca Guadagnino’s surprisingly toothless AI thriller Screen Daily Reviews

Korea6 K-Dramas With Characters That Have Double Lives Soompi

KoreaKim So Hyun’s Visit To Choo Young Woo’s Robotics Lab Goes Awry In “Between Steps” Soompi

KoreaBIFF opening film 'The Table: Day and Night' turns to the quotidian Yonhap

Japan織田裕二×石黒賢「振り返れば奴がいる」10月14日より放送開始！三谷幸喜脚本の名作医療ドラマ シネマトゥデイ

ItalyBelieve Film Festival 2026, Tommaso Landucci tra gli ospiti Cinecittà News

Japan織田裕二×石黒賢「振り返れば奴がいる」10月14日より放送開始！三谷幸喜脚本の名作医療ドラマシネマトゥデイ