{"title": "Asako I & II", "start": "2026-11-07T20:10:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31294", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "Asako I & II is a 2019 film by director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. As a student in Osaka, Asako falls in love with a drifter named Baku, who one day vanishes from her life. Two years later in Tokyo she meets Ryohei, a businessman who is Baku's double in every respect but personality, and they begin building a life together—until circumstances force Asako to confront her lingering love affair with a half-ghost fantasy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/asako-i-ii-56707/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999001925-asako-i-ii/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6243d03486732ecaa3c05b56fc9b8d182585f4d28c2e08a21de5bf2e44a5e19f-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-07T20:10:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Two Seasons, Two Strangers preceded by Nagahama", "start": "2026-11-07T14:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31311", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/comics", "film/drama"], "description": "A live-action feature in two parts, adapted from manga by Yoshiharu Tsuge, paired with a short film. Directed by Sho Miyake, it follows a summertime meeting between Nagisa and Natsuo and a snowbound winter encounter between screenwriter Li and innkeeper Ben-zō. Winner of the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, with Yuumi Kawai, Mansaku Takada, Shim Eun-kyung and Shinichi Tsutsumi. A Q&A with Sho Miyake follows the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/two-seasons-two-strangers-preceded-by-nagahama-56704/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005070-two-seasons-two-strangers-preceded-by-nagahama/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d3a286f85f01a34f1b5beb1e4aa7b60e01afa9ff0a3506ee54f3d0e18b8a2125-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sad Vacation", "start": "2026-11-08T21:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31308", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/crime-drama"], "description": "A screening of the film \"Sad Vacation\". Director Shinji Aoyama adapted it from his own novel as the third and final film of his \"Kitakyushu Saga\". It stars Tadanobu Asano as Kenji, a young man scarred by an unhappy childhood who, while drifting through odd jobs, recognizes his employer's wife as the mother who abandoned him and plots to infiltrate the household. A rich, moving human drama of families assigned and chosen, captured with striking, somber beauty by cinematographer Masaki Tamura.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sad-vacation-56715/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005077-sad-vacation/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2e05f12e0867c19ebcfa67a5a64d98e60c493973261f28f5d71f77374179f2a0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "zi", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31284", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "The screening of the experimental drama \"zi\" is followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Kogonada and actors Michelle Mao, Haley Lu Richardson, and Jin Ha, and producer Christopher Radcliff. Kogonada's fourth feature follows the title character, played by Michelle Mao, a concert violinist whose aimless peregrinations through the streets of Hong Kong are interrupted by visions of what may be either her past or future, a condition she attempts to explain to a new American acquaintance (Haley Lu Richardson) while a stranger (Jin Ha) observes the pair from a distance. A valentine to the textures and colors of the Fragrant Harbor as seen by night, featuring music by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, the formally audacious, shot-on-the-fly film is one of unusual delicacy and reserve, whose air of mystery abides long after the credits have rolled.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/zi-56697/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005068-zi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7952eef12c2146948739e6085dfb18e7afb925b580212e0172ae0a533e363e33-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Retribution", "start": "2026-10-31T18:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T20:15:00-04:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/asiastore", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/j-horror"], "description": "Retribution is a 2006 ghost story by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. A seasoned detective, played by Kōji Yakusho, investigates a series of murders across a waterlogged expanse of ruin and construction, while the ghost of a murder victim burrows into his mind and house and an earthquake threatens to slide the city into the sea. The screening is presented by the editors of Narrow Margin, a quarterly magazine of film criticism, in anticipation of its fifth issue, which pairs Kurosawa with one of his most important influences, Richard Fleischer. It will be introduced by Narrow Margin editor Hicham Awad.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/retribution-51113/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/retribution", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3321116ed1328abc20d0eb9c2681c046eeacf715e6545f054945184644af69b3-600.webp"}, {"title": "An Autumn Afternoon", "start": "2026-10-30T14:10:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31212", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/comedy-drama"], "description": "An Autumn Afternoon is a film screening of Yasujirô Ozu's final feature. Ozu's poignant comedy of marriage follows Chishu Ryu as a father giving away his daughter and preparing for another, final goodbye. The story carries a sharper feeling of incoming winter chill and a tang of regret, its title literally translating to 'The Taste of Autumn Mackerel.'", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-autumn-afternoon-56658/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999000844-an-autumn-afternoon/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f08c99c62ea0d3633826779f68a660e833033e706808095a76f5df7a37c7cce9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "2046", "start": "2026-10-29T16:15:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31274", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "2046 is a film screening. Directed by Wong Kar-wai, this sort-of sequel to Days of Being Wild and In the Mood for Love is set in the '60s and follows Tony Leung Chiu-wai's Chow, now a suave science-fiction writer, through his various affairs with women including Faye Wong, Zhang Ziyi, and Gong Li, distractions since his true love, Mrs. Chen (Maggie Cheung, seen in flashback), has disappeared. Intercutting scenes from Chow's footloose life—several taking place on subsequent Christmas Eves—with scenes from his novel-in-progress, set in the titular year, it's a film of voluptuous melancholy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/2046-56654/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999004396-2046/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8e7dc29d540e6d3898e66bbf8436968dd009b7985c7865185fdb15360e5975d7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Suzhou River", "start": "2026-11-06T21:10:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31289", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "Suzhou River is a feature film screening. Director Ye Lou, from his hometown Shanghai, named it after the polluted river flowing through the city. Using the first-person perspective of an unseen videographer-narrator, it follows an unsuspecting motorcycle courier who becomes snared in a kidnapping plot and murder rap. The brooding film draws on influences from film noir to Vertigo while developing its own haunting visual vocabulary.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/suzhou-river-56699/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999003167-suzhou-river/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ed01a98d737c3a27b3be0a1a3318d5275ee0f19ccf147ac882581a221dcc1e95-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sans Soleil", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31235", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary/essay-film"], "description": "Sans Soleil is a film directed by Chris Marker, shown at Metrograph. It is a voyage through memory, history, and video games, a free-flow of images shot largely in Japan, with detours to Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, and San Francisco. There is nothing quite like it in the history of cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sans-soleil-56662/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999003788-sans-soleil/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b4c15911b8c2aa0b8ba8d07094845605db4ffd7e11ff43231e337fd5d63b89b0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ju-On: The Grudge", "start": "2026-10-30T23:40:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.ifccenter.com/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=587286~8722a542-64c1-4c0b-af02-c3e8a239d769&", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "A Japanese horror film in which a social worker visits an elderly woman at her house and finds the woman deeply disturbed — but an even greater menace lurks upstairs in the shapeless black void known as 'Kayako'. Takashi Shimizu directed the 2002 film, which stars Megumi Okina and Misaki Ito. Quiet and creepy with bursts of unexpected intensity, it combines liminal spaces and creepypasta chills to rattle your skeleton. There's nothing scarier than not knowing what's scaring you.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ju-on-the-grudge-53167/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/ju-on-the-grudge/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/287b68492eb5c69ea6e09b4852a4bf12647fa40096c17a766363a41ff28a0a66-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Small, Slow But Steady", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31312", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/sports-drama"], "description": "A sports drama based on the true story of boxer Ogasawara Keiko. Director Sho Miyake casts Kishii Yukino as Keiko, deaf from birth, whose young professional career and the boxing gym that is her second home are threatened by the pandemic. The film follows her self-worth and resolve as both face possible ruin. A Q&A with Sho Miyake follows the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/small-slow-but-steady-56706/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005078-small-slow-but-steady/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8d9f8013bf33f9cb5b6130f416451006e36c140fc9f80b24777bcfaf35d96d6a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spring in a Small Town", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T20:15:00-05:00", "place": "Asia Society", "address": "Park Avenue 725, 10021 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/asiastore", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/romance"], "description": "The film 'Spring in a Small Town' by Fei Mu, often cited as one of the greatest Chinese films of all time, shows a love triangle in China after the Sino-Japanese War. The ill Liyan lives with his wife Yuwen in a decimated household, until her former lover Zhichen visits and Yuwen faces an impossible choice. Made in a restrained, poetic style of long takes, it remains a deeply affecting human drama, shown here as the US premiere of its 4K restoration.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spring-in-a-small-town-71021/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/spring-small-town-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fb843c7a8028e82844e254a8ed4bf019a2e71abf2ab5eb41204bceecaae04902-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Je t'aime, je t'aime", "start": "2026-11-08T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://t.metrograph.com/Ticketing/visSelectTickets.aspx?cinemacode=9999&txtSessionId=31303", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/science-fiction"], "description": "A screening of the film \"Je t'aime, je t'aime\". Director Alain Resnais made this 1968 film, which stars Claude Rich as an unsuccessful suicide who, leaving hospital, agrees to take part in a time-travel experiment that brings fragments of his past rushing back in disordered shards. It has been called a quiet mixture of science fiction with a love story as subtle as anything in Rohmer or Rivette. The showing on this day includes an introduction by filmmaker Kogonada.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/je-taime-je-taime-56712/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005075-je-taime-je-taime/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2d72a08359092aafd569f1b58900281643fafa0baba48bc5466ec8405095e735-2000.webp"}]}