Sugai Cineplex Sapporo Theater

The Sapporo Theater opened its doors on October 10, 1968 with Julie Andrews in “Star”, and this theater was a replacement of another theater also named the Sapporo Theater which opened in 1918 as a playhouse and closed as a movie theater in the 1960’s.

The Sapporo Theater was located on the seventh floor of large leisure complex Sapporo Sugai Building, which housed a sauna, bowling alley, billiards, table tennis, a ballroom, and other facilities. It was also one of the more popular theaters in Sapporo featuring 70mm film equipment and a massive CinemaScope screen which marked it as the largest in Hokkaido at the time. At the eighth floor is another movie theater called the Cinema Eight, which there’s not a lot of information about it.

Throughout its history as a large single-screener, some of the most notable American films the Sapporo Theater ran over the years include “The Exorcist”, “The Towering Inferno”, “Jaws”, “Carrie”, “Enter The Dragon”, and “E.T.” among others.

The Sapporo Theater received major renovation in 1995 and the main auditorium was divided into four screens. The Cinema Eight on the eighth floor above was divided into a twin, and would eventually become the Sugai Cineplex Sapporo Theater.

The Sugai Cineplex Sapporo Theater closed for the final time on June 2, 2019.

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