{"id":147,"date":"2010-01-14T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T11:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-01-14T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T11:56:14","slug":"memories-of-matsuko-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Memories of Matsuko (movie)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Memories of Matsuko<\/strong> (2006) dir Tetsuya Nakashima.\u00c2\u00a0 A young man is asked by his father to clear the flat of an aunt he didn&#8217;t know existed, who has just died. Aunt Matsuko was a young teacher whose life was ruined after she unwisely defended a boy accused of stealing.\u00c2\u00a0 Forced to resign, and rejected by her family, she descends into a seedy underworld of massage parlours and violent boyfriends, living out her later years in eccentric isolation.<\/p>\n<p>A hard-hitting movie and one of the best live-action Japanese movies I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memories of Matsuko (2006) dir Tetsuya Nakashima.\u00c2\u00a0 A young man is asked by his father to clear the flat of an aunt he didn&#8217;t know existed, who has just died. Aunt Matsuko was a young teacher whose life was ruined after she unwisely defended a boy accused of stealing.\u00c2\u00a0 Forced to resign, and rejected by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Memories of Matsuko (movie)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}