Cinema in The Wood, by Yanobe Kenji, is a kids’ movie theater and nuclear shelter. Educational movies are played in the cinema, which teach kids the danger of nuclear bombs as well as survival tips for nuclear emergency.

[Cinema in The Wood. Torayan is standing in the left, wearing yellow “atom suits” that can detect radioactivity]

Torayan, a character based on a ventriloquist’s dummy, welcomes kids to the cinema. Torayan also appears in the movies as a cartoon character — but what he says in the movies may not actually reflect what he thinks (i.e., he could be just moving his mouth and his “ventriloquist” could be the one who’s talking.)

By the way, it kind of reminds me of this internet teleprompter interface that allows anyone to type in whatever and newscasters read it and “speak authoritatively about things they don’t now anything about.”

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