{"id":65819,"date":"2016-07-23T07:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T11:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65819"},"modified":"2016-07-22T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T19:52:36","slug":"japan-cuts16-i-am-a-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65819","title":{"rendered":"JAPAN CUTS16: I Am A Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 23 12pm<br \/>\nJapan Society<br \/>\n333 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/I-Am-a-Monk_main_XL.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[65819]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65820\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/I-Am-a-Monk_main_XL.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FEATURE SLATE<br \/>\nNew York Premiere<\/p>\n<p>After the sudden death of his grandfather, 24-year-old bookstore clerk Koen (Atsushi Ito) cautiously accepts his inherited role as abbot of the Eifuku-ji Temple in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture, 57th stop along Shikoku\u2019s famous 88 temple pilgrimage. As he learns the ropes of monkhood\u2014from memorizing ritual prayers to buying the right set of head clippers\u2014the film offers an inside look at the day-to-day life of a monk (including after hours drinking and baseball practice), humorously bringing to relief the relatable, earnest human beings behind the traditional robes and shaved heads. An often moving and poignant coming-of-age story, I Am a Monk uses Koen\u2019s bumpy journey toward self-realization to ask universal questions about life\u2019s purpose while ultimately leaving all possibilities open.<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/i-am-a-monk\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 23 12pm 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-65819","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\/65819","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=65819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65821,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65819\/revisions\/65821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}