{"id":44729,"date":"2014-06-09T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=44729"},"modified":"2014-06-26T00:02:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T04:02:30","slug":"new-york-asian-film-festival-2014-miss-zombie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=44729","title":{"rendered":"New York Asian Film Festival 2014 – Miss Zombie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, July 9, 2014, 3:30 PM
\nWalter Reade Theater
\n144 W 65th St, New York, NY 10023
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MISS ZOMBIE<\/strong>
\nSABU,
\nJAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: HDCAM | 85 MINUTES
\nNew York Premiere<\/p>\n

Carefully blending horror tropes and thriller elements into a formally restrained, razor-sharp social satire that lovingly melds the humdrum and the deranged, Sabu\u2019s Miss Zombie is a movie so dense it could bend light: running at 85 minutes, it\u2019s a work of compact beauty, predominantly monochrome and largely free of dialogue. On one level the film is an impossibly off-kilter housemaid drama, in which rich family man Dr. Teramoto (Toru Tezuka) receives a very special delivery: a crate containing a mail-order female zombie maid (actress-model Ayaka Komatsu), complete with an instruction manual prescribing a vegetarian diet, a cautionary note against any meat, and a gun\u2026 just in case. Teramoto\u2019s wife, Shizuko (Makoto Togashi, Guilty of Romance), promptly puts the zombie to work, assigning her the dreary task of scrubbing the garden patio\u2014surely a job only a brain-dead zombie could endure. Soon she is physically and sexually abused by those around her and things take an ominous turn. This is the other level of the film, a dark, melancholy tale of maternal love and revenge, full of dry, ironic humor and abrupt twists, which playfully challenges the audience\u2019s expectations. Presented with Japan Cuts: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema.<\/p>\n

For more information about the event, please visit:
\nhttp:\/\/www.filmlinc.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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