{"id":16389,"date":"2011-01-24T09:31:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T13:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=16389"},"modified":"2011-01-24T09:31:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T13:31:52","slug":"justins-japan-nys-japan-society-fires-up-sabu-film-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/24\/justins-japan-nys-japan-society-fires-up-sabu-film-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: NY’s Japan Society Fires Up Sabu Film Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Japan Society's six-film Sabu retrospective begins Wednesday, Jan. 26. (Courtesy of Sabu)<\/p><\/div>\n

By <\/em><\/strong>JQ magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page <\/em><\/strong>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

This week, New York\u2019s Japan Society<\/a> presents Run, Salaryman, Run! A Retrospective of Sabu’s Film Works<\/a>, six slices of cinema packed with high speed, high style, hard luck, and the quirky lusts and lunacies of post-Bubble Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Born Hiroyuki Tanaka\u00a0in 1964, Sabu<\/a> is the cult auteur of\u00a0 “punk n’ roll,” alternative comedies, often imitated, never equaled, and far too rarely shown in the U.S. since his 1996 feature debut, Non-Stop a.k.a DANGAN Runner<\/em> (a film praised by The A.V. Onion Club <\/em>as “effortlessly clever” and included in this line-up).\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a world of hazards and happenstance, Sabu zeroes in on blue and white collar everymen tossed into dangerously absurd situations from which they desperately try to run. As things speed along, Sabu brings a fresh and frantic twist to traditional film genres (the yakuza film, the thriller, etc.), giving their lean and clean-cropped premises the electroshock treatment and \u00fcber edgy music scores.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The salute kicks off Wednesday, Jan. 26 with Monster<\/em>, winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival “for its austere, dark wit and keen eye for human foibles.” Other highlights include The Blessing Bell<\/em> (Netpac Award, 2003 Berlin International Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize, 2003 Cinemanila International Film Festival), and the international premiere of the Japanese auteur\u2019s latest work, the HD-lensed Troubleman<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sabu has drawn comparisons with Buster Keaton, Johnnie To and Doug Liman, but his satirical jamborees, more than just friendly black comedies, are truly unlike anything else on the silver screen: they are stamina tests, survival riffs, victory rolls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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By JQ magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0\u00a0 This week, New York\u2019s Japan Society presents Run, Salaryman, Run! A Retrospective of Sabu’s Film Works, six slices of cinema packed with high speed, high style, hard luck, and the quirky lusts and lunacies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,263,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-film","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4gl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16389"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16394,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16389\/revisions\/16394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}