Kyoto Shochikuza Theater
Rokkakushita,
Shinkyogoku,
Kyoto
600-8003
Rokkakushita,
Shinkyogoku,
Kyoto
600-8003
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The Kyoto Shochikuza Theater opened its doors on December 31, 1924 by the Shochiku chain and was destroyed by a fire in 1937.
After reconstruction, it reopened and showed mostly foreign films, but at one point it also became a theater for first-run Japanese films by Shochiku. Towards the end of its existence, it mainly screened films from the Marunouchi Louvre chain until its closure on November 30, 2001, exactly a week after the MOVIX Kyoto nearby opened.
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The Kyoto Shochikuza was built on the site of another theater called the Meijiza, which got destroyed by a fire in 1924. The Shochikuza also became the first 70mm theater in Kyoto on April 1, 1961. At the time, the screen measures 8 meters high and 16 meters wide.
Exactly eight days after the two other Shochiku theaters in Kyoto, the “Kyoto Piccadilly” and “SY Shochiku Kyoei”, closed, the Kyoto Shochikuza ended its days after a film festival on November 30, 2001, which had four movies being screened in one day: “Ben-Hur” (the 1959 version), “Casablanca”, “Gone with the Wind”, and the Japanese film “Castle of Sand”.
During its success, “E.T.” was the biggest hit in this theater’s history, which had a grand total of over 267,000 moviegoers throughout its 98-day run in late-1982.
Frank Sinatra’s “Can-Can” was the first 70mm film screened at the Kyoto Shochikuza.