{"id":44980,"date":"2014-07-11T08:56:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=44980"},"modified":"2014-07-06T00:44:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T04:44:57","slug":"japan-cut-2014-maruyama-the-middle-schooler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=44980","title":{"rendered":"Japan Cuts 2014 – Maruyama the Middle Schooler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, July 11, 2014, 8:30 PM
\nJapan Society
\n333 E 47th St, New York, NY 10017
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NEW YORK PREMIERE<\/p>\n

Co-presentation with the New York Asian Film Festival<\/p>\n

Though described by acclaimed actor\/scriptwriter\/director Kankuro Kudo as a “self-fellatio” comedy, Maruyama is also a moving coming-of-age story and an exploration of the infinite possibilities of the human imagination. Maruyama, a sex-crazed 14-year-old (Takuma Hiraoka) is not only dedicated to auto-eroticism but desires to defy the limitations of his body and transcend himself–until his spine literally cracks. When he encounters a newcomer, a nerdy, single father (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) who finds fault with his neighbors, things take a weird turn as corpses are found in the otherwise ordinary neighborhood. As Maruyama’s imagination gets out of control, his fantasies go joyously wild and free as he reimagines his family and the inhabitants of the entire apartment complex as manga-like characters cast in an action-packed saga of assassinations and revenge.<\/p>\n

Japan. 2013. 119 min. Blu-ray, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Kankuro Kudo. With Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Takuma Hiraoka, Kenji Endo, Ik-June Yang, Maki Sakai, Toru Nakamura, Nanami Nabemoto, Yuiko Kariya, Fumina Hara, Fumina Hara, Ryo Iwamatsu.<\/p>\n

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

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