{"id":53667,"date":"2015-07-11T08:45:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=53667"},"modified":"2015-06-23T21:48:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T01:48:56","slug":"japan-cuts-and-the-mud-ship-sails-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=53667","title":{"rendered":"Japan CUTS: And the Mud Ship Sails Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 11\u00a0 12:30PM<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Website_large_andthemud.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[53667]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Website_large_andthemud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Indignant slacker Takashi (Kiyohiko Shibukawa) has an attitude. Unfortunately there\u2019s no one but his ancient grandmother (Misao Hirayama, the director\u2019s 96-year-old grandmother) and pleasant friend Shohei (Kaori Iida) to hear his apathetic wisecracks in the small city of Otawara. One day, Yuka (Ayasa Takahashi) appears and announces herself to be his half-sister by their deadbeat father. It doesn\u2019t take long to size up her near-middle-aged unemployed sibling, charging him to take action that sets the film off on a fantastical turn. Prolific character actor Shibukawa shines as lead in this surprising deadpan comedy from Tochigi Prefecture collective FOOLISH PIGGIES, part Jim Jarmusch, part Federico Fellini.<br \/>\nFor tickets and information visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/and-the-mud-ship-sails-away\">japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 11\u00a0 12:30PM 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-53667","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\/53667","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=53667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53669,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53667\/revisions\/53669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}