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

IF MagazineAustralia

The Devil Inside: Legendary DOP Robert Richardson on COVID shaping his documentary portrait, his friendship with Scott Hicks

10.19

South Australian director Scott Hicks may not appear alongside Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone or Martin Scorsese in Jana Hojdová's documentary portrait, 'Robert Richardson: The White Devil', but…

Documentary

Read at IF Magazine ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

The Devil Inside: Legendary DOP Robert Richardson on COVID shaping his documentary portrait, his friendship with Scott Hicks

Related

Malaysia‘Street Fighter’ punches its way to US$31m debut as Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns US, Canada box office Malay Mail Showbiz

UKElizabeth Holmes documentary You Can See Everything debuts with huge $15m opening weekend The Guardian Film

Japan‘Ozu showed the way’: A documentarian looks for the man behind the legend The Japan Times

UK‘Tough to watch, impossible to ignore’: reviewers on NAZA documentary The Guardian Film

AustraliaJared Nicholson and Ben Lawrence on their documentary Aftermath The Curb

AustraliaNatalia Laska on her tender and gentle documentary The Piano Tuner The Curb