The preview was 300 in Saitama and Kawagoe annually, so the remaining cinemas ... Kawagoe Scalar seats and program formation should be selected from the beginning to the end.

Chizuru Iijima is preparing for screening in the project room = Kawagoe Scalar in Motomachi, Kawagoe City

As you follow the back alley, a movie theater will be lost in the Showa era.Kawagoe Scala, which originated from Ichikitei, a vaudeville that opened in 1905 (Meiji 38).In Motomachi, Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, it has been transmitting culture for more than a century.Currently, Mr. Chizuru Iijima (48), a deputy director of the NPO Playground, who runs a movie theater, is in charge of program formation and events.What happened ... Beyond the people of the camera, the craftsmen set up at the Kadokawa Film Festival, which popped out of the water surface, and screened the work

For Iijima from Kawagoe City, the first memory of Kawagoe Scala was to see the "Antarctic Story" (released in 1983) in his childhood. He loved movies after his growth, but recalled, "I didn't even think I would work on a movie." In May 2007, Kawagoe Scala was retired and temporarily closed. The playground took over and revived in August. Mr. Iijima finds the job posted in the hall and applied. He became a volunteer in 2008. A new world that has been in the mid -30s, experiencing a company work that has nothing to do with the movie. After a part -time job, he was in charge of program formation and events around the spring of 2009, and became a full -time staff of the movie theater. In 11 years, he became the Deputy Representative Director of the NPO corporation. Since the current system, it has been screened for a week to two weeks, focusing on things that are different from commercial film major works. Mr. Iijima is sincere, saying, "I watch about 300 previews a year, but I will watch the whole story from the beginning to the end. I can not evaluate it."

At the event, the director's stage greeting has created a question -and -answer time and a welcome time to sing together in a musical movie, and has been planning a participation experience type and two directions.However, the situation is strict, such as the content is restricted under the corona, and the entrance limit is reduced to two -thirds of 124 seats with a capacity of 124 seats.Nevertheless, Mr. Iijima smiled, saying, "It's a city that values old things. It's a cinema that has remained. This is a place where culture accumulates. I want to be a bit of a break."