Kyoto Piccadilly Theatre

50sSNIPES on September 17, 2025 at 4:19 am

This opened in November 1894 as the Ebisu-za (or the Ebisuyaza Theatre in English). Throughout most of its later history, the Kyoto Piccadilly screens Shochiku’s foreign films (including American movies), but became a Japanese Shochiku affiliate in either the late-1980s or early-1990s.

The Kyoto Piccadilly closed on November 22, 2001, not July 31, 2014. This was because of the MOVIX Kyoto’s opening the following week, which also caused other Shochiku theaters in Kyoto to close as well.

During its days as the Piccadilly, it originally housed 632 seats, but towards the end of its operation, it last operated with 494 seats.