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Animation Magazine

Animation Magazine‘Mononoke the Movie: The Curse of the Serpent’ Director Shares the Creative Vision of the Third Feature The Mononoke movies are the latest evolution of stories that go back many years, beginning with the 2006 anime anthology series Ayakashi: Samurai Horror Tales. The original 2007 Mononoke series was itself a spinoff of Ay

September 3

Hong Kong Free PressHong KongHow Hong Kong’s Hungry Ghost Festival could rival Kyoto’s Gion Matsuri Kyoto summers are as hot as, if not hotter than, Hong Kong’s – so, anyone who wants to experience the annual Gion Matsuri first-hand must be prepared to face the midsummer sun of the ancient city. The famous month-long J

September 3

RogerEbert.com“Onimusha: Way of the Sword” is a Drawn-Out Samurai Epic

August 31

MUBI NotebookInherit the Wind: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “The Samurai and the Prisoner”

August 31

MUBI NotebookKyōko Kagawa in One Shot

August 11

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。