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

IndieWire

‘Wildwood’ Sparked a Much-Needed Comeback for Laika at the Box Office

10.26

Travis Knight's stop-motion animated epic opened to $12.2 million, which is on par with the opening for the company's "Kubo and the Two Strings."

Box office

Read at IndieWire ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

‘Wildwood’ Sparked a Much-Needed Comeback for Laika at the Box Office

Related

‘Clayface’ Tops the Box Office with $24 Million. What Does It Signal About DC Studios’ Latest Reboot? IndieWire

Box Office: A24’s ‘You Can See Everything’ Scores Huge $19.5 Million Second Weekend IndieWire

AI Feature 'Sanxingdui: Future Past' Debuts to Weak Ticket Sales in China as Low-Budget 'Niu Lai' Nears $10M VP Land

FranceLe triste bide d’Englouti se confirme au box-office, et c’est forcément une mauvaise nouvelle Écran Large

UKUK comedies ‘Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House’ and ‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’ glide into UK-Ireland box office top five Screen Daily Reviews

FranceBox-office US : You Can See Everything, le film dont tout le monde parle, continue de créer la surprise ! AlloCiné — actu ciné