{"id":69674,"date":"2017-03-24T07:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=69674"},"modified":"2017-03-10T20:07:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T00:07:06","slug":"beyond-godzilla-alternative-futures-fantasies-in-japanese-cinema-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=69674","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Godzilla: Alternative Futures &amp; Fantasies in Japanese Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, March 24\u2014April 8, 2017<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\/2017\/03\/godzilla.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[69674]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/godzilla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Godzilla undoubtedly ranks among Japanese cinema&#8217;s most well-known and beloved exports, the series of films in which he stars is only one of the many remarkable entries within the rich and varied universe of Japanese tokusatsu (&#8220;special effects&#8221;) films. This seven-film series, a modified version of the program organized for the 2016 Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy by film critic and writer Mark Schilling, goes beyond Toho&#8217;s superstar monster to introduce a selection of titles that display the wide-ranging imagination of the Japanese sci-fi\/fantasy genre, including innovative B-movies, kaiju eiga (&#8220;monster movies&#8221;) and non-Godzilla classics involving director Ishiro Honda and effects maestro Eiji Tsuburaya.<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of films visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/page\/programs\/film\/beyond-godzilla-alternative-futures-and-fantasies-in-japanese-cinema\" target=\"_blank\">www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, March 24\u2014April 8, 2017 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-69674","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\/69674","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=69674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69677,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69674\/revisions\/69677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}