Aoikan Theater
Tokyo
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Previous Names: Aoi Kwan Theater
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This theater was in the Tameike section of Akasaka in Tokyo, Japan. It screened foreign films during the 1910’s and 1920’s. The theater was damaged in the 1923 earthquake, but was redesigned and reopened in 1924.
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I cannot find as much details about this one, rather than the Aoikan Theater opened around 1915 and closed around 1935. It was located on 30 Tameike, Akasaka Ward, Tokyo. After the Great KantÅ Earthquake of September 1923, it was damaged by both the quake and a fire, and was both redesigned and reopened in 1924.
However, I can confirm that the theater building was a shack building designed by Yoshikawa Seisaku, who also designed the Kanda Nikkatsu Theater, and the stage curtain featured a distinctive relief created by the MAVO group led by Murayama Tomoyoshi. It screened foreign films including American movies.