{"id":4739,"date":"2002-04-11T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-11T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/04\/11\/sometimes-it-works\/"},"modified":"2002-04-11T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-11T14:37:00","slug":"sometimes-it-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/sometimes-it-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes It Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/display.cgi?id=11969\" target=\"_blank\">Ain&#8217;t It Cool News<\/a> reports that Miramax will be keeping the title of Shaolin Soccer intact for the movie&#8217;s American release.<\/p>\n<p>Miramax Vice President of Publicity Hiromi Kawanishi confirmed that strong and vocal opposition from film fans and the influential Ain&#8217;t It Cool News fan site convinced Miramax to drop plans for renaming the Hong Kong action\/comedy film &#8220;Kung-Fu Soccer&#8221; for its American release.<\/p>\n<p>This is, of course, good news for fans of Stephen Chow&#8217;s record breaking movie, but also good news and a good omen for all fans of foreign and particularly Asian cinema considering that Miramax will be distributing Michelle Yeoh&#8217;s The Touch, Tsui Hark&#8217;s Zu Warriors, Zhang Yimou&#8217;s Hero, Hayao Miyazaki&#8217;s Spirited Away, and Pokemon movies 4 &amp; 5 in America in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ain&#8217;t It Cool News reports that Miramax will be keeping the title of Shaolin Soccer intact for the movie&#8217;s American release. Miramax Vice President of Publicity Hiromi Kawanishi confirmed that strong and vocal opposition from film fans and the influential Ain&#8217;t It Cool News fan site convinced Miramax to drop plans for renaming the Hong [&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-4739","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\/4739","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=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}