China · Anime
Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū
Haruko Kumota · 2016
A dying art form is staged in emptying theaters, where two rakugo masters perform to half-occupied rooms that magnify every breath, sleeve-rustle, and pause. The series and Pyramiden both meditate on what it means to keep performing inside a structure whose civilization has already moved on, treating the resulting reverberation as the true subject.