{"id":13255,"date":"2008-08-12T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T15:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=13255"},"modified":"2008-08-13T09:56:16","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T13:56:16","slug":"viz-pictures-acquires-happily-ever-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/viz-pictures-acquires-happily-ever-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Viz Pictures Acquires Happily Ever After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/viz-pictures-acquires-happily-ever-after.jpg\" alt=\"Viz Pictures Acquires Happily Ever After\" title=\"Viz Pictures Acquires Happily Ever After\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/viz-pictures-acquires-happily-ever-after.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/viz-pictures-acquires-happily-ever-after-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viz-pictures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Viz Pictures<\/a> has announced its domestic distribution rights to director Yukihiko Tsutsumi&#8217;s 2007 film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viz-pictures.com\/in_theatres\/happy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Happily Ever After<\/a>, an adaptation of Yoshiie Gouda&#8217;s manga series. Happily Ever After was the subject of controversy upon its initial release for its depiction of a co-dependent and devoted but troubled wife and her boorish, unemployed, and often abusive husband. But director Yukihiko Tsutsumi keeps the laughs coming as he explored this sensitive subject in a visually striking, darkly comedic way.<\/p>\n<p>The film will initially screen in Seattle, Washington on August 15-21 at the Grand Illusion Cinema. Additional limited screenings will follow. The film will hit American DVD in February 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viz Pictures has announced its domestic distribution rights to director Yukihiko Tsutsumi&#8217;s 2007 film Happily Ever After, an adaptation of Yoshiie Gouda&#8217;s manga series. Happily Ever After was the subject of controversy upon its initial release for its depiction of a co-dependent and devoted but troubled wife and her boorish, unemployed, and often abusive husband. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}