{"id":58639,"date":"2015-12-06T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=58639"},"modified":"2015-11-21T22:18:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T02:18:27","slug":"seven-weeks-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=58639","title":{"rendered":"Seven Weeks Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, December 06\u00a0\u00a0 07pm<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_seven1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[58639]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/resources\/legacy\/event\/Website_large_seven1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obayashi&#8217;s most recent film is a grand compilation of his career.  Ostensibly about a family mourning the death of their 92-year-old  patriarch, it spans the local (set in Ashibetsu, a small northern town  whose residents helped fund it) and the global (referencing the history  of Japan&#8217;s colonization of Sakhalin Island, now part of Russia), and  explores themes of lost love, memory, war and art. Ruthlessly  fragmenting scenes and setting a furious pace with one experimental  technique following another, <em>Seven Weeks <\/em>breaks down the  barriers between past and present, reality and illusion, and even self  and other, all in order to create an emotionally profound experience of  loss and hope.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and tickets available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/seven-weeks-1\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, December 06\u00a0\u00a0 07pm 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-58639","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\/58639","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=58639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58640,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58639\/revisions\/58640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}