{"id":50309,"date":"2015-01-23T08:32:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=50309"},"modified":"2015-01-09T14:38:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T18:38:39","slug":"japan-society-screening-ishiro-hondas-matango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=50309","title":{"rendered":"Japan Society screening Ishiro Honda’s MATANGO"},"content":{"rendered":"

01\/23\/2015 7pm
\nJapan Society
\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017
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\nProlific director Ishiro Honda made Matango (aka Attack of the Mushroom People) 11 years after his iconic Godzilla. Like that famous kaiju film, Matango manages to be a highly entertaining genre film utilizing imaginative monster costumes while also engaging with social and moral commentary about contemporary Japan. A group of rich Tokyo elites – the benefactors of the economic recovery of the 1960s – find themselves on a deserted island after their yacht is shipwrecked. As circumstances become increasingly difficult, the moralities of the characters are tested as they struggle to survive against the monstrous and radioactive mushroom species called \u201cMatango\u201d that infest the island. Hallucinatory sequences, sexual tension and gripping suspense charge this colorful B-movie based on William Hope Hodgson\u2019s 1907 short story \u201cThe Voice in the Night\u201d (one of the stories printed in the anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12 Stories They Wouldn\u2019t Let Me Do on TV).<\/p>\n

1963, 89 min., 35mm, color, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Ishiro Honda. With Akira Kobai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, Miki Yashiro, Yoshio Tsuchiya.<\/p>\n

TICKETS
\n$12\/$9 Japan Society members, seniors & students<\/p>\n

For more information, please visit
\nhttp:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/matango-fungus-of-terror<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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