{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-08T21:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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": "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": "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"}, {"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": "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": "Yi Yi", "start": "2026-11-03T15:00:00-05:00", "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=31320", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama/family-drama"], "description": "Edward Yang's 2000 film Yi Yi observes the interplay between three generations of an upper middle-class Taipei family. The last work of a master filmmaker who died far too young, it is gentle, restrained, and terribly humane. Comic in its dealings with the foibles of its excellent ensemble cast and the mores of the urban bourgeoisie, it is also possessed by an air of unmistakable melancholy and lingering regret at missed opportunities. An epic-length work without a hint of bombast, it works its way into the hidden spaces of everyday people's emotional lives, as rich and as sad as life itself.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/yi-yi-56686/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999001293-yi-yi/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c664208e384d3583a3624d1b75e222c88b76ef4710406efec17fee3a13538792-2000.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": "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": "The Child", "start": "2026-11-08T16:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama"], "description": "A screening of the Latvian drama The Child (Bērns), followed by a film talk and Q&A with director Linda Olte. The film follows Zane and Kaspars, a couple in their late 30s who seem to have it all—love, careers, a house and shared hobbies—but have been unable to have a child despite years of trying. Kaspars slowly comes to terms with the idea that life can be fulfilling without children, but for Zane, a former professional swimmer trained to win, not becoming a mother is unacceptable. As her 40s approach and she goes to grueling lengths to meet her target, the couple's relationship grows increasingly strained and Zane must question her role within her family and in society.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-child-55702/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/the-child-nybff/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4eba6556ca641a5e5e1d6e067d31ff7868b10ba4913dc755be3cacdaa1a31dc0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "News from Home + Interior NY Subway, 14th Street", "start": "2026-11-01T17:45:00-05:00", "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=31229", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "A double bill of two films shown together: Chantal Akerman's 'News from Home' and G. W. \"Billy\" Bitzer's 'Interior NY Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street'. Made when Akerman was 26 and living in New York, away from her native Belgium and her mother, 'News from Home' pairs images filmed with Babette Mangolte in subway stations and on street corners with Akerman's recitals of her mother's fretful letters, and is considered one of the greatest portraits of a city ever put on film and a troubling, touching depiction of maternal love. Bitzer's short from 1905 runs 6 minutes, while Akerman's 1976 film runs 85 minutes in its English-language version. The screening is introduced by series curator Genevieve Yue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/news-from-home-interior-ny-subway-14th-street-56679/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005065-news-from-home-interior-ny-subway-14th-street/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a0e387220b790665e9991ac12f62f9415157faaa56150001151cc2752699a0dc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Bittersweet Life", "start": "2026-11-03T21:50:00-05:00", "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=31324", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/thriller"], "description": "A neo-noir thriller about a mob enforcer with a record of loyal service who fights for his life after sparing his boss's straying mistress. It was directed by Kim Jee-woon and stars Lee Byung-hun and Shin Min-a. The action set pieces are choreographed for the widescreen with much panache, grounded by emotional stakes and real physical danger. Jang Young Gyu's score, a melange of samba, flamenco, solo cello, and electronic elements, won Best Music honors from the Busan Film Critics Association.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-bittersweet-life-56691/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005015-a-bittersweet-life/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1ea22b9f0ce57ce4599529d8eaa01fae336e62fd9c5e819e4b5867dace0ef32a-2000.webp"}]}