Aoikan Explained

Logo Image:Aoi Kwan Theatre 1913.png
Address:Minato-ku
City:Akasaka, Tokyo
Country:Japan
Opened:July 1913
Reopened:1924
Demolished:1931

The was a movie theater in the Tameike section of Akasaka in Tokyo, Japan. It existed since the mid–1910s as a high-class foreign film theater, featuring benshi such as Musei Tokugawa.

After the Great Kanto earthquake, it re-opened in October 1924 with a new, modern design created by prominent avant-garde artists. Seisaku Yoshikawa was in charge of architectural design, Yasuji Ogishima did the sculptural reliefs on the front of the building, and Tomoyoshi Murayama designed the interior.[1] [2] Murayama also did the cover illustrations for the theater's pamphlets in the first few years.[3]

Film scholars such as Kenji Iwamoto have noted this theater's significance in Japanese cinematic modernism of the 1920s and 1930s.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Aoikan. Kikuchi. January 13, 2010. Shūzōko ichigōkan. Japanese. 5 April 2010.
  2. Web site: Aoikan rerīfu no chōkokuka Ogishima Yasuji. Bunriha kenchiku hakubutsukan. Japanese. 5 April 2010.
  3. Web site: Aoikan to Aoi wīkurī. March 12, 2006. Aoyama biyori. Japanese. 5 April 2010.
  4. Book: Nihon eiga to modanizumu, 1920-1930. Kenji Iwamoto. Riburo Pōto. 1991. 4-8457-0616-4. Japanese.