劇場映画
Dawn of the State of Emergency Declaration
2022〜
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In a world that has been turned upside down,
we still want to keep chasing our dreams.
On the day when many artists lost the places where they could live and create amid the COVID-19 crisis, a film director who also found himself in difficult circumstances came up with one thing he could still do right then and there. To document the day when cinema and culture died, he listened to the voices of a wide range of people—actors, musicians, comedians, and Tokyo Shimbun reporter Masaaki Nakamura—in this gripping documentary.
On April 7, 2020, the first state of emergency was declared.
The closure of movie theaters, the shutdown of studios, and the cancellation of all kinds of live entertainment were decided. To at least leave a record on film of the day cinema and culture died, we boarded the first train and met in Shinjuku. We listened to the cries of film workers, actors, musicians, comedians, and people from all walks of life. The director himself contracted the novel coronavirus. And then came a meeting with a newspaper reporter. There was only one thing we wanted to ask: “After the COVID-19 crisis, what is your dream?”