{"id":3049,"date":"2009-01-28T20:17:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T20:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2009-01-28T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T21:17:12","slug":"japan-society-an-incisive-afternoon-with-director-takashi-miike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/28\/japan-society-an-incisive-afternoon-with-director-takashi-miike\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Society:  An Incisive Afternoon with Director Takashi Miike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Via Japan Society (NY):<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"800\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"500\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/info.japansociety.org\/images\/content\/pagebuilder\/14129.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"500\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"60\"><\/td>\n<td><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/info.japansociety.org\/site\/R?i=ezm4YuH6PRdQee0W_jT81g..\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>From Gore to Westerns:<br \/>\nAn Incisive Afternoon with Director Takashi Miike<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Saturday, February 7<br \/>\n2:00 pm<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/info.japansociety.org\/site\/R?i=SN62eBNRo1mLOZ4Hl-mqhQ..\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/info.japansociety.org\/images\/content\/pagebuilder\/14403.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ichi the killer\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em>Miike&#8217;s 2001 film,<em> Ichi the Killer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the gory horror of <em>Audition<\/em> (1999) to the spaghetti western parody <em>Sukiyaki Western Django<\/em> (2007) to the musical comedy <em>The Happiness of the Katakuris<\/em> (2001), Japan&#8217;s busiest film director <strong>Takashi Miike<\/strong> has made over 50 films in the widest range of possible genres. His razor-sharp, most absurd and yet entertaining style of filmmaking makes him one of the most distinctive directors working today, and this has brought a whole new type of international, enthusiastic, young followers to contemporary Japanese films. In this incisive afternoon, Miike will speak in depth on his filmmaking behind-the scenes.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFollowed by a reception.<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" width=\"170\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/info.japansociety.org\/images\/content\/pagebuilder\/14408.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nTakashi Miike.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Takashi Miike<br \/>\n<\/strong>Born in Osaka in 1960, Miike<strong> <\/strong>graduated from the Japan Academy of Moving Images in Yokohama.\u00a0 After assisting directors such as Shohei Imamura and Hideo Onchi, he directed a number of Yakuza movies on video and made a theatrical feature debut with <em>Shinjuku Triad Society <\/em>in 1995.\u00a0 His filmography includes more than 50 films to date, and the latest film <em>Yatterman<\/em> is being released in Japan in March. <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Tickets:<\/strong><br \/>\n$11\/$7 Japan Society members, seniors &amp; students<\/p>\n<p>Purchase tickets <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/info.japansociety.org\/site\/R?i=bF_Uk_PJRYAwkaVTXTw8Iw..\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>online<\/strong><\/a> or call the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/info.japansociety.org\/site\/R?i=AZDoZLIgmzug-d-ehtkz7A..\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>box office<\/strong><\/a> at 212.715.1258.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>LOCATION:<\/strong><br \/>\nUnless noted otherwise, all programs will be held at Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street at First Avenue, NYC.<\/p>\n<p>You have received this e-mail announcement based on your expressed interest in specific types of events. Updates on upcoming events will be e-mailed periodically.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This program is presented in association with <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/info.japansociety.org\/site\/R?i=12RtZREofYqOehBuY8Il4Q..\" target=\"_blank\">Subway Cinema<\/a>.<br \/>\nHotel accommodations are provided by The Kitano New York.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Japan Society (NY): From Gore to Westerns: An Incisive Afternoon with Director Takashi Miike Saturday, February 7 2:00 pm Miike&#8217;s 2001 film, Ichi the Killer. From the gory horror of Audition (1999) to the spaghetti western parody Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) to the musical comedy The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001), Japan&#8217;s busiest film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[26,53,30,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-events","category-japan-trends","category-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-Nb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}