Just as cinemas in Japan have taken a financial hit due to the coronavirus pandemic, distributors find themselves in similar straits. Some are desperately trying to stay afloat by breaking a cardinal rule: streaming new releases online.For cinema complexes around the nation that have seen a precipitous drop in customers, distributors and cinema studios that have taken such measures have only added insult to injury as theaters struggle to survive until the day moviegoers can return."Our feeling was we had to find some way to deliver titles to our audience," said an employee of Kadokawa Corp.…READ FULL ARTICLE
