{"id":63093,"date":"2016-04-23T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=63093"},"modified":"2016-04-17T18:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T22:56:47","slug":"the-happiness-of-the-katakuris-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=63093","title":{"rendered":"The Happiness of the Katakuris Film Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 23\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_happiness.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[63093]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/resources\/legacy\/event\/Website_large_happiness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based on a non-musical Korean film\u2014The Quiet Family by another genre-mixing filmmaker, Jae Woon Kim\u2014Takashi Miike uses the increasing absurdity of this comedy-horror-musical to explore the state of the Japanese family after the collapse of the economic boom that underpinned the popular song film. The film&#8217;s claymation opening sequence and bleak narrative of a downsized salaryman opening a B&amp;B in the country presents contemporary life as a hopeless cycle of exploitation, but the performance of the film&#8217;s lo-fi musical numbers by a cast that includes Kenji Sawada, star of several &#8220;group sounds&#8221; musical films in the 1960s, highlights a nostalgia for intimacy and optimism.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and information visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/the-happiness-of-the-katakuris\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 23\u00a0 04 PM Japan Society 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63093","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\/63093","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=63093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63094,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63093\/revisions\/63094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}