I went to a movie theater on Sunday, June 8, 2020, to see Let Me Eat Your Pancreas and Shin Godzilla. I had to go to the theater twice because the two movies were separated by about four hours: Let Me Eat Your Pancreas started at 10:10 in the morning while Shin Godzilla started at 4:30 in the afternoon.
TOHO CINEMAS Nagoya Baycity: Almost no one comes here now because of COVID-19, and it is scheduled to shut down at the end of November, 2020. (Photographed by Hotaru in July 21, 2020)
Both movies were great, but there were only three other women watching Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, and only four men were watching Shin Godzilla besides me. The movie theater looked nearly deserted.
I was wearing a gas mask, but everyone else was wearing a face mask made of paper. But I had to take off my gas mask to drink coffee.
Don't worry. Novel coronavirus infection is not that bad in Japan. In fact, I was not really wearing a gas mask. It was just a goggle and a face mask plus a face-covering cap, but they really looked like a gas mask when seen together.
The entrance hall of TOHO CINEMAS Nagoya Baycity: This is where people buy moive tickets, popcorn, and drinks, but almost no one is here.(Photographed by Hotaru in July 21, 2020)
Those movies I saw were a little old. Let Me Eat Your Pancreas was released in 2017 and Shin Godzilla was released in 2016. I had seen the former three times before, and I had seen the latter seven times (six times in theaters and once at home) as well. Yet they were both so refreshing and moving.
I think I will probably buy the blu-ray and DVD discs of these movies.