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There are clips in EoE that look like this. I wonder where these clips come
from. What are they watching/listening to?

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uuEoX.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uuEoX.jpg)


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The audience scene in End Of Evangelion


The theater is a shot from one of the screenings of Death and Rebirth. I
vaguely recall someone somewhere identifying which theater it was, but I can't
find the post. This was part of an entire sequence of live-action shots near
the end of the instrumentality portion of "End of Evangelion", the panning
shot of the inside of the theater is both kind of a [4th
wall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_wall) as well as fitting in with
the motif of the theater within instrumentality. Recall also from the last two
episodes of the TV Series where instrumentality is heavily depicted as part of
a theatrical set, like on a stage. Likewise, in EoE, we have a few shots,
including a sequence in a sandbox, where there are those folding chairs seen
from the end of the TV series.

Another related note is that the ["Death Threats"
sequence](https://wiki.evageeks.org/End_of_Evangelion_Death_Threats) during a
similar live-action portion of instrumentality has some of the letters mention
seeing Death and Rebirth at the theater.


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Partial answer: the footage was shot at [Shinjuku
Milanoza](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E5%AE%BFTOKYU_MILANO), a
cinema hall. In [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kflw4TfGSnQ), you
can hear the establishment's proprietor speaking prior to a screening of _End
of Evangelion_ (one of the last screenings at the hall before it closed in
2014) and mentioning this. This detail is apparently well-known among Japanese
_Evangelion_ fans. [According to
ANN](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=419), the hall
was credited as a collaborator on _End of Evangelion_.

I was unable to find information on what, specifically, the audience was
watching when this footage was taken, but it's presumably some movie that was
in Japanese theaters in 1996 or 1997.


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