{"id":53009,"date":"2015-07-09T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=53009"},"modified":"2015-06-02T19:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T23:33:36","slug":"hibi-rock-puke-afro-and-the-pop-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=53009","title":{"rendered":"HIBI ROCK: Puke Afro and the Pop Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, July 09 at 9 PM<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Website_large_hibi.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[53009]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Website_large_hibi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBased on the popular manga series by Katsumasa Enokiya, the director of 8000 Miles \u2013 SR: Saitama no Rapper is back with a raucous tale of a young man, Hibinuma (Shuhei Nomura), who moved to Tokyo dreaming of becoming a rockstar. With no money or prospects, he and his bandmates live and work at an underground venue. Things look up when a naked Hibinuma is kicked off the stage by a rambunctious girl (Fumi Nikaido, JAPAN CUTS 2014 guest) who shows him how to really rock. To his dismay, the mystery girl turns out to be national pop idol Saki Utagawa, prompting a pop vs. punk crisis. Get amped for this rowdy physical comedy with a lot of heart!<br \/>\nEvent also includes Q&amp;A with the director Yu Irie and an evening party!<br \/>\nFor ticket information visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/hibi-rock-puke-afro-and-the-pop-star\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, July 09 at 9 PM Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53009"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53017,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53009\/revisions\/53017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}