{"id":68620,"date":"2017-01-13T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=68620"},"modified":"2016-12-19T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T23:54:07","slug":"merry-christmas-mr-lawrence-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=68620","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Film Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 13  07pm<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\/12\/mrlawrence.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[68620]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68621\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mrlawrence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This international co-production from director Nagisa Oshima features a magnetic David Bowie in one of his greatest screen roles as a rebellious British officer imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp during World War II who draws the intense fascination of the camp&#8217;s conflicted commandant, played by composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Divided by language and incongruous understandings of duty and honor, the fraught relationship between prisoners and captors slowly builds towards tragedy. Also featuring a breakout performance by Takeshi Kitano in his first dramatic role, Oshima&#8217;s film is an entrancing, brutal examination of the absurdities of war punctuated by moments of tenderness and poetry.<\/p>\n<p>Screening in memory of David Bowie (January 8, 1947-January 10, 2016) and Nagisa Oshima (March 31, 1932-January 15, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>For tickets visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/merry-christmas-mr-lawrence-1\" target=\"_blank\">www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 13 07pm 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-68620","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\/68620","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=68620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68622,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68620\/revisions\/68622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}