{"id":5235,"date":"2019-08-30T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T21:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/?p=5235"},"modified":"2020-07-24T06:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T13:15:15","slug":"crybaby-shottan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/crybaby-shottan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[Archive &#8211; JFFSF 2019]<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2605 Oct.12, 2019 Sat @ 6:40PM [San Francisco Premiere]<br \/>\n2018| 127 min | with English Subtitles | Directed by Toshiaki Toyoda<br \/>\nPresented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp\/itprtop_en\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This film is based on the autobiography of Shoji Segawa, a unique shogi (Japanese chess) player who left his daytime job and turned pro at the age of thirty-five. It inspiringly depicts with rich emotion the comeback of a man who once failed at his dream. Director Toshiaki Toyoda, who himself once held shogi aspirations, teams up with lead actor Matsuda Ryuhei for the fourth time. Shoji (Matsuda), called &#8220;Shottan,\u201d joined the Future Shogi Player Cultivation League, a professional shogi player training academy, at the age of fifteen. However, the league stipulates a player who does not rise to the 4th-dan by the age of twenty-six must withdraw from the league. As Shoji grows older, his losses mount under the strain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class='embed-container'><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lWq66MpUiGo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shottan_still1.jpg\" alt=\"shottan\" width=\"680\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shottan_still2.jpg\" alt=\"shottan\" width=\"680\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/shottan_poster.jpg\" alt=\"shottan\" width=\"680\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8px; color:#666;\">\u00a9 2018 &#8220;The Miracle of Crybaby Shottan&#8221; Project Partners<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Archive &#8211; JFFSF 2019] \u2605 Oct.12, 2019 Sat @ 6:40PM&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5715,"href":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5235\/revisions\/5715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jffsf.org\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}