{"id":65022,"date":"2016-07-01T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65022"},"modified":"2016-06-23T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T20:17:04","slug":"blades-of-blood-screening-talk-with-director-lee-joon-ik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65022","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blades of Blood&#8221; Screening + Talk with Director Lee Joon-ik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, July 01 08:10pm<br \/>\nSVA Theatre<br \/>\n333 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gstatic.com\/tv\/thumb\/dvdboxart\/8151112\/p8151112_d_v8_aa.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[65022]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gstatic.com\/tv\/thumb\/dvdboxart\/8151112\/p8151112_d_v8_aa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blades of Blood&#8221; is a 2010 South Korean action drama film directed by <a title=\"Lee Joon-ik\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_Joon-ik\">Lee Joon-ik<\/a>. The film is based on Park Heung-yong&#8217;s graphic novel <em>Like the Moon Escaping from the Clouds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the late 16th century, the kingdom of Joseon is thrown into chaos by the threat of a Japanese invasion. Lee Mong-hak (Cha Seung-won), an illegitimate offspring from a cadet family of the ruling dynasty, and legendary blind swordsman Hwang Jeong-hak (Hwang Jung-min)  were once allies who dreamed of stamping out the Japanese invasion,  social inequality and corruption, and creating a better world.  Persecuted by the court, Lee forms a rebel army in hopes of overthrowing  the inept king and taking the throne himself. Lee is willing to kill  recklessly and betray former comrades to forge his bloody path to the  palace. Kyeon-ja is the bastard child of a family killed by Mong-hak.  Hwang Jeong-hak saves him from an injury caused by Mong-hak. Together  the two search for Mong-hak in order to confront and kill him.<\/p>\n<p>Free admission! First Come First Serve! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/245181655862603\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, July 01 08:10pm SVA Theatre 333 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011<\/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-65022","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\/65022","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=65022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65023,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65022\/revisions\/65023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}