Somewhere in Shinjuku... two homosexual Americans in Japan defy state of emergency orders to meet and to wonder before the supreme artlessness of COVID-19 and Anno Hideaki's 2016 masterwork, SHIN GODZILLA. Tortured civilians, atomic breath, the crush of the proletariat, helpless governments, silence in Shibuya Scramble, layers between people, the contemporary condition: who will know tragedy?

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