{"id":58106,"date":"2015-11-21T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=58106"},"modified":"2015-11-02T01:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T05:07:20","slug":"bound-for-the-fields-the-mountains-and-the-seacoast-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=58106","title":{"rendered":"Bound for the Fields, the Mountains and the Seacoast Film Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 21\u00a0\u00a0 04 PM<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/resources\/legacy\/event\/Website_large_bound2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[58106]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/resources\/legacy\/event\/Website_large_bound2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two versions are available of this story of kids banding together to try to rescue their idol from being sold into prostitution immediately before WWII, one in color and one in B&amp;W. While the latter is now unavailable, even the color version reveals how Obayashi musters much of classical Japanese film, particularly 1930s Shochiku and Yasujiro Ozu&#8211;as well as a bit of experimental film, particularly Shuji Terayama&#8211;to present both a playful critique of wartime social power and the Japan that was lost in its destruction, as well as Obayashi&#8217;s imaginary revenge against that structure. Even the idol looks a bit like Setsuko Hara!<\/p>\n<p>Information and tickets at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/bound-for-the-fields-the-mountains-and-the-seacoast\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 21\u00a0\u00a0 04 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-58106","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\/58106","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=58106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58110,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58106\/revisions\/58110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}