{"id":4765,"date":"2002-04-18T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-18T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/04\/18\/new-japanese-shock-cinema-from-media-blasters\/"},"modified":"2002-04-18T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2002-04-18T15:22:00","slug":"new-japanese-shock-cinema-from-media-blasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/new-japanese-shock-cinema-from-media-blasters\/","title":{"rendered":"New Japanese Shock Cinema from Media Blasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media Blasters has announced that their American theatrical premiers of Takashi Ishii&#8217;s Freeze Me and Takeshi Miike&#8217;s Visitor Q will occur at the Subway Cinema Asian Films Are Go! film festival in New York City April 26th through the 30th. Freeze Me (2000) is a critically acclaimed violent and shocking rape-revenge drama directed by director Takashi Ishii, better known for his Gonin 1 &amp; 2 and Black Angel 1 &amp; 2. Visitor Q (2001) is a taboo shattering absurdist comedy about the separation and unusual restoration of a dysfunctional family when a strange young man invades their home and lives. The film is directed by critically acclaimed avant garde director Takeshi Miike.<\/p>\n<p>Media Blasters has also announced that the exceptionally disturbing and graphically violent social commentary\/exploitation\/shock-horror film All Night Long 2 will premier on subtitled only American DVD on August 27th. The film tells the story of a teenage computer and anime otaku who suffers mental, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of bullies until he fights back by slaughtering all of them in one of cinema&#8217;s most bloody and horrifying displays of sadistic, graphic violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Blasters has announced that their American theatrical premiers of Takashi Ishii&#8217;s Freeze Me and Takeshi Miike&#8217;s Visitor Q will occur at the Subway Cinema Asian Films Are Go! film festival in New York City April 26th through the 30th. Freeze Me (2000) is a critically acclaimed violent and shocking rape-revenge drama directed by director [&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-4765","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\/4765","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=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}