{"id":56657,"date":"2015-10-17T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=56657"},"modified":"2015-09-13T23:18:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T03:18:01","slug":"screening-her-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=56657","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening: Her Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, October 17  4PM<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brother.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[56657]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/brother.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In writing about Her Brother, Ichikawa asks &#8220;&#8230;if one starts with the premise that everyone is essentially alone, then what follows?&#8221; Based on the autobiographical novel by Aya Koda, Ichikawa&#8217;s film is a moving, restrained family melodrama told from the viewpoint of Gen (Keiko Kishi), a lonely yet resilient young woman obligated to her distant writer father (Masayuki Mori) and invalid, devoutly Christian stepmother (Kinuyo Tanaka). Unable to make a life for herself in such a cold and oppressive household, Gen is left to serve as a surrogate mother for her over-indulged, delinquent younger brother Hekiro (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), to whom she remains lovingly devoted.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and information available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/her-brother\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, October 17 4PM 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-56657","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\/56657","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=56657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56661,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56657\/revisions\/56661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}