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

Cinecittà NewsItaly

Festival dei Popoli: Doc at Work, spazio al cinema documentario e ai nuovi talenti

10.30

Doc at Work , la piattaforma industry del Festival dei Popoli , torna con un programma dedicato allo sviluppo, alla produzione e alla distribuzione del cinema documentario, favorendo l’incontro tra…

Festivals & awards Documentary AI in film

Read at Cinecittà News ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Festival dei Popoli: Doc at Work, spazio al cinema documentario e ai nuovi talenti

Related

USAAI documentaries won’t let the dead rest The A.V. Club Film

CanadaWindsor Film Festival Highlights Top Spot for Docs on the Circuit POV Magazine

AfricaPolice Block Screening of Kenyan Documentary ‘The People Shall’ at Kilifi Creek Festival (EXCLUSIVE) Sinema Focus

UKYou Can See Everything review – Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes doc is a modern masterpiece of deceit The Guardian Film

Japan第37回高松宮殿下記念世界文化賞受賞で来日のケイト・ブランシェットが会見と懇親会に出席 SCREEN Online

FranceCannes 2026 | Club Kid : Sexe, drogues et paternité Écran Noir