{"id":65834,"date":"2016-07-24T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65834"},"modified":"2016-07-22T16:04:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T20:04:57","slug":"japan-cuts16-flying-colors-ny-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65834","title":{"rendered":"JAPAN CUTS16: Flying Colors (NY Premiere)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, July 24  11:45am<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\/Flying-Colors_08-XL.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[65834]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65835\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Flying-Colors_08-XL.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special video introduction by singer-songwriter Emi Meyer<\/p>\n<p>This smash-hit comedic drama stars newcomer Kasumi Arimura as Sayaka, a ditzy high school material girl who is unexpectedly encouraged by an overly-optimistic and unconventional cram school teacher (Atsushi Ito) to apply for admission to one of the toughest universities in Japan&#8211;a prospect that her friends and family initially laugh off. Inspired to reach her goal and prove a point, Sayaka completely throws herself to the task at hand, burying herself in textbooks and sacrificing her social life along the way. Based on a true story, Nobuhiro Doi&#8217;s whip-smart direction effortlessly hits all the sweet spots in delivering what could easily be considered Japan&#8217;s winking response to Legally Blonde.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/flying-colors\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, July 24 11:45am 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-65834","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\/65834","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=65834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65836,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65834\/revisions\/65836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}