{"id":65840,"date":"2016-07-23T07:07:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T11:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65840"},"modified":"2016-07-22T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T20:09:44","slug":"japan-cuts16-ken-and-kazu-north-american-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=65840","title":{"rendered":"JAPAN CUTS16: Ken and Kazu (North American Premiere)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 23  02pm<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\/Ken-and-Kazu_main_XL.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[65840]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65841\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ken-and-Kazu_main_XL.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The long-awaited feature film debut by newcomer Hiroshi Shoji based on his eponymous 2011 short. Ken (Shinsuke Kato) and Kazu (Katsuya Maiguma) are small-time drug dealers and partners in crime operating out of a car repair shop under the watchful eye of a local yakuza boss. When Ken&#8217;s girlfriend becomes pregnant he makes plans to go straight, but Kazu has other ideas. Working on a shoestring budget, director Shoji manages to deliver a thrilling jolt of realism to the often overfamiliar yakuza genre. He amplifies the intensity of the actors&#8217; performances by shooting largely in close-up with tightly framed compositions, creating a nerve-wracking sense of danger and instability that is sustained from the film&#8217;s first punch to its final sigh.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/e82C0FF1E-A8E6-D555-637B043CD416D695\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, July 23 02pm 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-65840","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\/65840","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=65840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65842,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65840\/revisions\/65842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}