{"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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/retribution-51113/", "official_url": "https://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/retribution", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/3321116ed1328abc20d0eb9c2681c046eeacf715e6545f054945184644af69b3-600.webp", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/ju-on-the-grudge-53167/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/ju-on-the-grudge/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/287b68492eb5c69ea6e09b4852a4bf12647fa40096c17a766363a41ff28a0a66-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Wailing", "start": "2026-10-29T21:15:00-04:00", "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=31278", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "A screening of the film \"The Wailing\". Director Na Hong-jin's 2016 tale follows country police sergeant Kwak Do-won investigating murders linked to a strange, sense-deranging sickness, while villagers blame a Japanese drifter suspected of being an evil spirit. Steeped in ancient east Asian folklore and Christian symbolism, it is a work of insinuating, creeping terror that turns horror tropes inside out into something unpredictable and genuinely disturbing.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/the-wailing-56656/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999003989-the-wailing/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/2d9a414eda056867e355a561d081ff0b2f9b5a58d89ce15e59b0f002dd3651c5-2000.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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/sad-vacation-56715/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005077-sad-vacation/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/zi-56697/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005068-zi/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/7952eef12c2146948739e6085dfb18e7afb925b580212e0172ae0a533e363e33-2000.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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/asako-i-ii-56707/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999001925-asako-i-ii/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/6243d03486732ecaa3c05b56fc9b8d182585f4d28c2e08a21de5bf2e44a5e19f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dracula's Angel", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:37:00-05:00", "place": "Nitehawk Cinema", "address": "Metropolitan Avenue 136, 11249 Brooklyn", "price": "USD 9–15", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "A screening of Dracula's Angel, followed by a Q&A with director Bryan Beasley, moderated by Bleeding Skull's Annie Choi.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/draculas-angel-66946/", "official_url": "https://nitehawkcinema.com/williamsburg/movies/draculas-angel/", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Housemaid", "start": "2026-11-07T12:00:00-05:00", "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=31290", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/thriller"], "description": "A screening of the South Korean film The Housemaid, made in 1960 by director Kim Ki-young and starring Lee Eun-shim. The routine domestic life of a middle-class family is turned upside-down after a young woman joins the household to help with the chores—though what she does instead is turn the house into a boiling cauldron of lust. A mélange of melodrama, morality tale, noir thriller, and horror film that comes together to exercise a vice-like grip. The film was restored by the Korean Film Archive and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project and is widely regarded as one of the country's greatest films.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/the-housemaid-56702/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999003128-the-housemaid/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/6735ec1793daab22a6e829331ebec8267b5705476789989fff0441e38dda69f6-2000.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://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/suzhou-river-56699/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999003167-suzhou-river/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/ed01a98d737c3a27b3be0a1a3318d5275ee0f19ccf147ac882581a221dcc1e95-2000.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://go-gnocchi.app/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://go-gnocchi.app/images/d3a286f85f01a34f1b5beb1e4aa7b60e01afa9ff0a3506ee54f3d0e18b8a2125-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Blackout", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00-05:00", "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=585458~8722a542-64c1-4c0b-af02-c3e8a239d769&", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/monster-horror"], "description": "Blackout is a feature film screening at IFC Center, shown as part of the series Optic Nerve: A Tribute to Glass Eye Pix. Director Larry Fessenden says he tells the story of a town divided by racism and a corrupt patriarch to update the werewolf movie. He describes his work as rooted in the low-key traditions of 1990s indie cinema, with collaborators like Kelly Reichardt, Jim Jarmusch and Steve Buscemi, alongside a deep love of the horror genre. The film stars Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Michael Buscemi, Joe Swanberg and Barbara Crampton.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/blackout-53133/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/blackout/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/417d009dce51124a77c8c1fff6c82d00652985d409424b598e255cb7da23fbab-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Oldboy", "start": "2026-11-04T21:45:00-05:00", "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=31330", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/thriller"], "description": "Park Chan-wook's revenge thriller about Oh Dae-su, kidnapped and held in solitary confinement for 15 years without explanation, who is suddenly released and out for vengeance. Made in 2003, it won the Grand Prix at Cannes and became an international phenomenon, mixing bravura filmmaking with surreal dark humor.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/new-york/events/oldboy-56695/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999000490-oldboy/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/05d007bf473212a1d8d616fb93b16e0c364161d606622baa7b51f980ed4b8022-2000.webp"}]}