{"id":457,"date":"2013-05-19T21:28:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T21:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jffsf.org\/2013\/?p=457"},"modified":"2014-01-17T00:32:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:32:57","slug":"himizu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/himizu\/","title":{"rendered":"Himizu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This show ended. <\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\n2012 \/ 129 min \/ with English Subtitles<br \/>\nDirected by Sion Sono<br \/>\nStarring: Shota Sometani, Fumi Nikaido<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#f15a22;\">San Francisco Premiere<\/span><br \/>\n<br \/>\nSion Sono&#8217;s award-winning masterpiece with the elegant strains of Mozart&#8217;s Requiem and Samuel Barber is based on Minoru Furuya&#8217;s manga &#8220;Himizu&#8221;, meaning the species of a mole in Japanese. Set after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, all 14-year-old Yuichi Sumida (Shota Sometani) wants is to live a decent life. His environment though keeps dragging him into the mud. Meanwhile, Keiko Chazawa (Fumi Nikaido), a classmate of Yuichi, harbors a severe crush on him and sticks around despite being berated by him. One day, the yakuza come by Yuichi&#8217;s home and tell him to pay off his father&#8217;s debt. Yuichi already heartbroken by his mother&#8217;s abandonment and abuse from his father nears a tipping point. A string of incidents then occurs that brings Yuichi&#8217;s world to a screeching halt. Is there light at the end of the tunnel for Yuichi?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/caamedia.org\/\" target=\"blank\"><span style=\"color:#f15a22;\">Co-presented by Center for Asian American Media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"6a00732744f10\" rel=\"wp-video-lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eMo_T9_LPEs&#038;rel=0&#038;width=640&#038;height=360\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/button_watchtrailer.png\" class=\"video_lightbox_anchor_image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>    <script>\n    \/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n    jQuery(document).ready(function($){\n        $(function(){\n            var width = $(window).innerWidth();\n            var setwidth = parseFloat(640);\n            var ratio = parseFloat(0.5625);\n            var height = parseFloat(360);\n            var link = 'https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eMo_T9_LPEs&amp;rel=0&amp;width=640&amp;height=360';\n            if(width < setwidth)\n            {\n                height = Math.floor(width * 0.5625);\n                \/\/console.log(\"device width \"+width+\", set width \"+640+\", ratio \"+0.5625+\", new height \"+ height);\n                var new_url = wpvl_paramReplace('width', link, width);\n                var new_url = wpvl_paramReplace('height', new_url, height);\n                $(\"a#6a00732744f10\").attr('href', new_url);\n                \/\/console.log(new_url);\n            }\n        });\n    });\n    \/* ]]> *\/\n    <\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8px; color:#666;\">\u00a92011 &#8220;HIMIZU&#8221; Film Partners.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This show ended. 2012 \/ 129 min \/ with English&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jffsf.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}