Festivals & awards

Signal of the week · Festivals & awards · 59 stories, +56 vs last week

Festivals & awards: 59 stories in seven days, +56 on the week before.

Fan Bingbing Sparks Carnal Desire in Invalid Father-in-Law in Wayne Wang’s ‘Diary of a Mad Old Man’ (Exclusive Toronto Clip) The Hollywood Reporter

‘The Unknown’ Teaser: French Psychological Thriller Starring Léa Seydoux Arrives In Theaters Later This Year The Playlist

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Tuoi TreVietnamChina's Most Chaotic Summer Film Season Yet

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Tuoi TreVietnamRare Messages from Chiikawa

September 4

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

September 4

Tuoi TreVietnamSong Ui-Long Dominates Summer Film Season

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

September 4

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

September 4

Tuoi TreVietnamHollywood Awakens, Revives

September 4

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

September 4

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.

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

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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 4

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。