Festivals & awards

Signal of the week · Festivals & awards · 51 stories, +48 vs last week

Festivals & awards: 51 stories in seven days, +48 on the week before.

Jordan Firstman’s ‘Club Kid’ Hits Telluride, and Colleen Camp Could Be Its Secret Oscar Weapon Variety

Jack Huston Cheers on Paul Schrader as Sexual Abuse Drama ‘Basics of Philosophy’ Premieres in Venice Variety

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Tuoi TreVietnamChina's Most Chaotic Summer Film Season Yet

September 5

Tuoi TreVietnamRare Messages from Chiikawa

September 5

Tuoi TreVietnamDirector Pham Duy Khanh Takes on Managing Role for Miss Universe Vietnam 2026

September 5

Tuoi TreVietnamSong Ui-Long Dominates Summer Film Season

September 5

Tuoi TreVietnam'Heroic Household' Faces Losses After the 2‑9 Holiday

September 5

Tuoi TreVietnamAvengers: Endgame Returns to Vietnamese Screens, Seizes Box‑Office Record

September 5

Tuoi TreVietnamHollywood Awakens, Revives

September 5

Tuoi TreVietnamSon Ye Jin and Hyun Bin Clash in September Korean Film Race

September 5

Sixth ToneChinaChina’s Short-Drama Boom Was Built on Speed. Then AI Got Faster. AI-powered production is upending China’s ultrashorts market, cutting shoots, budgets, and specialized crew work while forcing companies to find cheaper ways to keep live-action production viable.

September 5

Sixth ToneChinaInside China’s Shift From Short-Drama Sets to AI Factories

September 5

Sixth ToneChinaInside the Chinese AI Studio Shrinking Short-Drama Crews to One Former animators, cinematographers, and VFX artists are helping build AI systems that can script, storyboard, generate, and revise short dramas with unprecedented speed.

September 5

Sixth ToneChinaEye of the Storm: Viral Podcaster Breaks Silence Over Plagiarism Scandal A Chinese podcaster famed for grilling filmmaker Christopher Nolan takes shelter from claims she lifts content from overseas sources.

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Cinepuuulse is a magazine, a radar and a diary about Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — read from Tokyo.

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku, the old word for the silver screen; it is the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. A magazine, because every week one film is worth reading about slowly. A radar, because we count what the region's screens are talking about — box office, festivals, directors, anime, streaming — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We read the local press in its own languages and bring it over in English: the Japanese film sites, the Korean trade papers, the Chinese culture desks, the Vietnamese and Thai entertainment pages. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Cinepuuulse will keep changing. New sources, new signals, new ways of looking — a little better each week, never finished. If a film here made you want to buy a ticket, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。