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映画祭 · What's on the festival calendar — Asia first, then the world — the films each region is talking about, and what its press is covering

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On screens this week the newest stills from the region's press

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How Asia watches in 2026 from the industry's own reports

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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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Xochitl Gomez, Madeleine McGraw & Jack Champion Cast In ‘Bad Influence’ YA Horror

October 15

EXCLUSIVE: Xochitl Gomez, Madeleine McGraw and Jack Champion are hitting the road for the Jason Perlman-helmed YA horror film Bad Influence.

Horror & thriller

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