{"id":3791,"date":"2009-03-18T05:03:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:03:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-18T05:03:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T05:03:15","slug":"World-Premiere-of--White-on-Rice-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=3791","title":{"rendered":"World Premiere of &#8220;White on Rice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world premiere of the independent film <strong>White on Rice<\/strong> \u2013 a comedic look at the Japanese immigrant experience in America \u2013 was hosted by Iyemon Cha Japanese Green Tea at the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last night. The public mingled with the film\u2019s director and stars at an exclusive pre-screening reception at <strong>Robert Redford\u2019s Sundance Kabuki theatre<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Director <strong>Dave Boyle<\/strong> shared insights on his film about a Japanese immigrant family coming to terms with romance, parenting and middle age while adjusting to American culture. Joining him were stars <strong>Hiroshi Watanabe (Clint Eastwood\u2019s Letters from Iwo Jima), Japanese Academy Award winner Nae (Letters from Iwo Jima) and Lynn Chen (Saving Faces).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to think I\u2019m bringing a splash of <strong>Japanese culture to America<\/strong> through my films,\u201d said Boyle.<\/p>\n<p><i>Photos by Suntory\/Kaz Yamaguchi<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world premiere of the independent film White on Rice \u2013 a comedic look at the Japanese immigrant experience in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Nihat73","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b1bb58fca5774217a0d841b35a62b1f5239c50a138ddda09ce9f3521dd95f840?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"2","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The world premiere of the independent film White on Rice \u2013 a comedic look at the Japanese immigrant experience in","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":181,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":1,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Nihat73","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=232"},"magazine_blocks_comment":2,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b1bb58fca5774217a0d841b35a62b1f5239c50a138ddda09ce9f3521dd95f840?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}