{"id":69717,"date":"2017-04-08T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=69717"},"modified":"2017-03-10T21:13:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T01:13:39","slug":"blue-christmas-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=69717","title":{"rendered":"Blue Christmas Film Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 08  04pm<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\/blue-christmas.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[69717]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69718\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/blue-christmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBest known for his samurai and war films, Kihachi Okamoto (Sword of Doom) made Blue Christmas from So Kuramoto&#8217;s original script as a rare sci-fi for adults. Despite a sensationalistic premise\u2014contact with mysterious UFOs creates a new &#8220;race&#8221; of humans with blue blood\u2014the film offers a serious critique of social discrimination and government oppression. A box office disappointment at the time of its release, it has since acquired cult cachet in Japan, while still dividing critics and fans.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japansociety.org\/event\/blue-christmas\" target=\"_blank\">www.japansociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 08 04pm 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-69717","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\/69717","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=69717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69719,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69717\/revisions\/69719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}