Tokyo Weekender

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Tokyo WeekenderJapanFrom City Pop to The Weeknd: The Best Live Shows in Tokyo This September September in Tokyo trades the stadium scale of August’s festival season for something more intimate and, in a lot of cases, more reflective. This month’s calendar is varied, with performances from multiple city pop icons

September 2

Tokyo WeekenderJapanBadly in Love Season 2 Finale: Who Ended Up Together? Netflix’s emotional, high-octane Badly in Love Season 2 gave us the exact drama and excitement that we expected in episode 10’s graduation ceremony. After two intense weeks in Okinawa, the housemates faced their final ch

August 26

Tokyo WeekenderJapanMacron’s Love of Dragon Ball Z Scores France a €6 Billion Theme Park Deal On Monday, the office of French president Emmanuel Macron announced a massive €6 billion multi-theme park complex to be built in France in the coming years. The colossal development will feature three distinct amusement

August 26

Tokyo WeekenderJapanThe Ghost in the Shell (2026) Anime Review: There’s a New Major in Town Major Motoko Kusanagi is an anime icon. Immortalized in Mamoru Oshii’s 1995 Ghost in the Shell movie, she is a cyborg leader of a counter-cyberterrorism squad whose machine nature makes her and the audience ponder the na

August 25

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。