{"id":15122,"date":"2009-03-25T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T16:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=15122"},"modified":"2009-03-25T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:01:26","slug":"funimation-acquires-ichi-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/funimation-acquires-ichi-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"FUNimation Acquires Ichi Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/funimation-acquires-ichi-movie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/funimation-acquires-ichi-movie-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"FUNimation Acquires Ichi Movie\" title=\"FUNimation Acquires Ichi Movie\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/funimation-acquires-ichi-movie-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/funimation-acquires-ichi-movie-361x450.jpg 361w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/funimation-acquires-ichi-movie.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FUNimation has <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/funimation\/statuses\/1383616930\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> its acquisition of distribution rights to director Fumihiko Sori&#8217;s 2008 live action samurai action film <a href=\"http:\/\/wwws.warnerbros.co.jp\/ichi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ichi<\/a>. The movie is a re-make of late actor\/director Shintaro Katsu&#8217;s long running Zatoichi film and television franchise that stars Haruka Ayase as a female version of the wandering blind swordsman. FUNimation will screen the film at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiff.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hawaii International Film Festival<\/a> on April 3 &amp; 6, and at next month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jffla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Film Festival Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-03-24\/funimation-adds-live-action-ichi-remake-of-zatoichi\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FUNimation has announced its acquisition of distribution rights to director Fumihiko Sori&#8217;s 2008 live action samurai action film Ichi. The movie is a re-make of late actor\/director Shintaro Katsu&#8217;s long running Zatoichi film and television franchise that stars Haruka Ayase as a female version of the wandering blind swordsman. FUNimation will screen the film at [&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-15122","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\/15122","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=15122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15139,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions\/15139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}