Action & martial arts

6 stories

The Film StageHope Director Na Hong-jin on What Aliens Reveal About Humanity and Capturing a Classic Sense of Action Something is killing the livestock in Hope Harbor, a rural fishing village near the border of North and South Korea. When local sheriff Bum-seok (Hwang Jung-min) investigates, he uncovers a wild force strong enough to bl

September 4

Anime News NetworkJapanLive-Action Look Back Film's Clip Highlights Kyōmoto, Fujino Creating Manga Film opens in Japan on September 11

September 4

Variety AsiaAsia‘Marriagetoxin’ Creators Joumyaku and Yoda Mizuki Tease Season 2: ‘There Is Plenty of Cool Action We Want You to See’ (EXCLUSIVE) A master assassin’s toughest job isn’t a kill order. It’s finding a wife. That premise carried “Marriagetoxin” from a running Shonen Jump+ series into one of the standout anime of Spring 2026, and creators Joumyaku and Y

September 4

EasternkicksAsiaKiller Clans

September 1

SCMP FilmHong KongHe’s worked with Jackie Chan, Jet Li. Martial artist Alfred Hsing’s rise in film Behind every action film – be it a biopic on wing chun kung fu master Ip Man or a Hollywood sci-fi flick – there is someone who choreographs the fight sequences and coordinates the stunts. Los Angeles-based actor and mar

August 28

EasternkicksAsiaNinja Strike Force

August 27

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。