{"id":45241,"date":"2014-07-12T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=45241"},"modified":"2014-07-06T00:44:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T04:44:26","slug":"japan-cut-2014-the-pinkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=45241","title":{"rendered":"Japan Cuts 2014 – The Pinkie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, July 12, 2014, 10:30 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
\nThe winner of the Grand Prix at the 24th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, Lisa Takeba’s debut feature is a hyper-imaginative sci-fi(ish) drama about a slacker and his clone. Devil-may-care Ryosuke is taking it easy, nice and easy, particularly with the girls. Unfortunately, the latest beauty he seduces turns out to be a yakuza’s moll. Reckoning comes when gangsters beat him up and chop off his pinkie, which falls in the hands of Momoko, a naughty girl who has been stalking him. She gets herself a cloning kit and grows her own Ryosuke-clone. It performs beyond expectations and proves to be a remarkable lover. Frantically paced, The Pinkie is chock-full of Western and Japanese pop culture references and jokes, as if Gen Sekiguchi’s Survive Style 5+ had been directed by the minds behind Sushi Typhoon splatter films, mixing Weird Science, Battles Without Honor and Humanity and The Terminator into 65 minutes of concentrated weirdness.<\/p>\n

Japan. 2014. 65 min. Blu-ray, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Lisa Takeba. With Ryota Ozawa, Miwako Wagatsuma, Haruka Suenaga, Reon Kadena, Takashi Nishina, Mondo Yamagishi, Kanji Tsuda.<\/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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