{"id":1462,"date":"2016-01-02T12:14:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T12:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2016-07-29T21:11:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T21:11:53","slug":"uzamasa-limelight-japan-thursday-21-april-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2016\/01\/uzamasa-limelight-japan-thursday-21-april-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"UZAMASA LIMELIGHT [Japan] &#8211; Thursday 21 April, 8pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z1a0Ia8wbtE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Season 14 concludes with this\u00a0multiple award-winning story about an aging and unsung hero of Japanese samurai films who never gets the limelight &#8211; until now.<\/p>\n<p>Uzumasa (Kyoto) is considered the Hollywood of Japan. \u00a0It has produced many \u201cjidaigeki\u201d films (period dramas with sword fighting) that are loved by many Japanese, and are highly praised all over the world. These films wouldn\u2019t be what they were if it weren\u2019t for the \u201ckirareyaku\u201d (actors whose main job is to be killed by the lead star). Men who are killed, without ever being lit by the limelight.<\/p>\n<p>This story is about those men, the unsung heroes of classic jidaigeki films. They loved and respected the art, even when the production of classic jidaigeki films began to dwindle. Using Charlie Chaplin\u2019s film \u201cLimelight\u201d as an underlying theme, the admirable story of these men dealing with a new generation and fading craftsmanship is told with melancholy and soul.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;movie magic&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/la-et-mn-uzumasa-limelight-review-20141205-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Being killed on screen isn\u2019t as easy as it looks, as actors who make their living by dying will attest&#8230;Owner of one of the great faces of Japanese cinema, Mr. Fukumoto, warm-eyed and hollow-cheeked, was made to be looked at. Dying with panache might be a near-obsolete talent, but holding an audience\u2019s attention will never go out of style.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/05\/movies\/uzumasa-limelight-about-a-fading-actor.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uzumasalimelight.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for official website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan, 2014 | Language: Japanese | 103 minutes | Cert: CLUB<\/p>\n<p>Director: Ken Ochiai<\/p>\n<p>Starring:\u00a0 Seizo Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Masashi Goda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season 14 concludes with this\u00a0multiple award-winning story about an aging and unsung hero of Japanese samurai films who never gets the limelight &#8211; until now. Uzumasa (Kyoto) is considered the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}