{"id":65825,"date":"2016-07-24T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65825"},"modified":"2016-07-22T15:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T19:58:01","slug":"japan-cuts16-emi-abi-world-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65825","title":{"rendered":"JAPAN CUTS16: Emi-Abi (World Premiere)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, July 24  04:30pm<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\/Emi-Abi_main_XL1.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[65825]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Emi-Abi_main_XL1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Introduction and Q&amp;A with director Kensaku Watanabe<\/p>\n<p>Up-and-coming manzai stand-up comedy duo Emi-Abi has lost consummate funny man Unno (a surprisingly touching Tomoya Maeno) to an accident, leaving conceited straight man Jitsudo (Ryu Morioka) to contend with his diminished career prospects as a bland, pretty face entertainer. Guided by his manager Natsumi (Haru Kuroki), who demonstrates stronger comedy chops than her own star, Jitsudo comes to learn the circumstances of his friend&#8217;s passing, as well as the life-and-death stakes of a career in comedy. Demonstrating a careful balance of tone across tragedy and deadpan and gross-out humor, writer\/director Kensaku Watanabe expands Emi-Abi&#8217;s hilarious premise into a strikingly assured meditation on artistic rivalry and self-actualization.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/emi-abi\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, July 24 04:30pm 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-65825","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\/65825","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=65825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65827,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65825\/revisions\/65827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}