{"id":45230,"date":"2014-07-12T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T12:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=45230"},"modified":"2014-07-06T00:44:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T04:44:38","slug":"japan-cut-2014-the-devils-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=45230","title":{"rendered":"Japan Cuts 2014 – The Devil’s Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, July 12, 2014, 6:00 PM
\nJapan Society
\n333 E 47th St, New York, NY 10017
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Co-presentation with the New York Asian Film Festival<\/p>\n

Nominated for Picture of the Year, Director of the Year and Screenplay of the Year at the 37th Japan Academy Prize<\/p>\n

The Devil’s Path shows the hell of guilt and conscience as it chronicles the case of a condemned yakuza. A massive monster of a thug (actor-singer Pierre Taki) seeks revenge on his former accomplice and hopes to achieve his goal by telling his story to a journalist (Takayuki Yamada), revealing three unknown killings. The film is a sullen journey that hardens its emotions, anxieties and energies into a shell of obsession. For the death-row gangster, who’s now found God, killing was just part of the cost of doing business. For his accomplice (Lily Franky), killing is just fun. A modest, quiet man, Yamada stands in for the viewer as Taki’s mesmerizing, murderous presence absorbs the space around him, inviting him in to encounter a possibly even more evil man, his former partner in crime. As it tells their deeds, the movie becomes an expression of philosophical despair.<\/p>\n

Japan. 2013. 128 min. DCP, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Kazuya Shiraishi. With Takayuki Yamada, Pierre Taki, Lily Franky, Chizuru Ikewaki, Kazuko Shirakawa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Katsuya Kobayashi, Yu Saito.<\/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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