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]