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

C7nemaPortugal

Woman Unknown: pulsão política acima das convenções

10.28

Ventos de consagração internacional começaram a soprar com força na direção da dinamarquesa de origem egípcia May el-Toukhy depois de Queen of Hearts ter conquistado o Prémio do Público em Sundance…

Read at C7nema ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Woman Unknown: pulsão política acima das convenções

More from C7nema on Cinepuuulse

Portugal“I Play Rocky abre Festival de Cinema do Cairo C7nema

PortugalDiscovery Channel revisita os casos de Ed e Lorraine Warren em documentário C7nema

PortugalJafar Panahi condenado a cinco anos e um mês de prisão no Irão C7nema

PortugalMatías Piñeiro no Batalha com filmes, masterclass e lançamento de livro C7nema

PortugalBastien Bouillon, entre a fragilidade e a violência de “Histórias da Noite” C7nema

PortugalMercado de Arroios recebe ciclo gratuito de cinema sobre migração e identidade C7nema