The cinema in Mexico City was full and the audience was enjoying "Taki No Shiraito" ("Cascading White Threads"), a Japanese silent film by Kenji Mizoguchi.
The audience was mesmerized not so much by the scenes unfolding on the screen, however, but by a woman in a black and white kimono talking, shouting and sometimes singing on a platform to the left.
Speaking in Spanish, she said, "Kin-san, Kin-san, I don't know where you are," in a young female voice, then, "Tomo, I will never forget what you've done for me," in a low male voice, and then narrating, "They didn't know that was the beginning of a tragedy," in a low female voice.