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IONCINEMA2026 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Ben’Imana, Congo Boy, House of the Wind & A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra in Competition

11.02

IONCINEMASean Durkin’s ‘Deep Cuts’ – Everything We Know So Far … (American Indie Edition)

11.01

IONCINEMAEna Sendijarević’s ‘The Possessed’ – Everything We Know So Far …

10.31

IONCINEMAQueen at Sea | Review

10.30

IONCINEMAGentle Monster | Review

10.30

IONCINEMAInterview: Damian Kocur – La Manche | 2026 Venice Gap-Financing Market

10.29

IONCINEMA2026 Les Arcs Film Festival: Cristina Groșan, Mikko Myllylahti, Benedikt Erlingsson & Bernhard Wenger Featured in Co-Prod Village

10.28

IONCINEMAInterview: Lila Avilés – Cábula | 2026 Venice Gap-Financing Market

10.28

IONCINEMAI Plant My Hand in the Garden | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review

10.27

IONCINEMAClosure | Review

10.27

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