{"id":65363,"date":"2016-07-09T07:33:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T11:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65363"},"modified":"2016-07-03T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T21:25:28","slug":"nyaff-2016-keeper-of-darkness-north-american-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65363","title":{"rendered":"NYAFF 2016: Keeper of Darkness North American Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 09  12pm<br \/>\nSVA Theatre<br \/>\n333 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/keeper-of-darkness.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[65363]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65364\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/keeper-of-darkness.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNick Cheung became one of Hong Kong\u2019s biggest stars on the strength of leading roles in action-comedies (The Conman), Triad flicks (Election), and boxing dramas (Unbeatable). So naturally his first two films as a director have been\u2026 ghost movies? Doubling down on his 2014 debut, Hungry Ghost Ritual, Cheung plays Fatt, a Triad gangster who moonlights as an exorcist. Since childhood, Fatt has been blursed (yup, that\u2019s \u201cblessed\u201d + \u201ccursed\u201d) with the ability to see and communicate with the spirits of the deceased. But when called on to arbitrate disputes between the dead and the pre-dead (i.e., the living), Fatt doesn\u2019t bother with cryptic chants or rituals; instead, he practices gangster diplomacy by making the spirits an offer they can\u2019t refuse. Filled with wild special effects and superstar cameos, Keeper of Darkness isn\u2019t just a movie, it\u2019s a full-body visceral experience. Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in New York.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmlinc.org\/films\/keeper-of-darkness\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.filmlinc.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 09 12pm 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-65363","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\/65363","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=65363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65365,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65363\/revisions\/65365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}