{"id":156,"date":"2007-04-06T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T19:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/04\/06\/attention-new-york-ping-pong-opens-today\/"},"modified":"2008-07-08T04:43:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T08:43:32","slug":"attention-new-york-ping-pong-opens-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"ATTENTION NEW YORK: PING PONG OPENS TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pingpongmovie.jpg\" id=\"image154\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/pingpongmovie.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the heads-up from Matt Fraction in the comments section, we now know that PING PONG the 2002 film adaptation of the Taiyo Matsumoto manga we talked about yesterday opens in New York City. <strong>Edit: It might only be playing tonight?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/05\/movies\/06ping.html?ex=1333512000&#038;en=35d3ad51ff8c0b2c&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">The New York Times<\/a><\/strong> reviewed the film and mentioned where it&#8217;s playing, and they seemed to really like it. Maybe you will too?<\/p>\n<p>Most interesting? It&#8217;s being released by &#8220;Viz Pictures&#8221;, which strongly implies a DVD release from Viz, and if that does well, who knows? <strong>EDIT: <\/strong>Who knew? Apparently, Viz Pictures has a website? Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viz-pictures.com\/\">http:\/\/www.viz-pictures.com\/<\/a> and see the info for more screenings, in Chicago and Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pingpongart.jpg\" id=\"image155\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/pingpongart.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the heads-up from Matt Fraction in the comments section, we now know that PING PONG the 2002 film adaptation of the Taiyo Matsumoto manga we talked about yesterday opens in New York City. Edit: It might only be playing tonight? The New York Times reviewed the film and mentioned where it&#8217;s playing, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ATTENTION NEW YORK: PING PONG OPENS TODAY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,7,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-general","category-manga","category-taiyo-matsumoto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}