Could this be attributed to the general shift of young audience's preference of Japanese films over foreign films?<br><br>Also, two summers ago, I was struck by some new cinemas in Tokyo that were devoted to showing Japanese films mostly from the 50s and 60s, often in double-bills. <br>
<br>Shinbungeiza in Ikebukuro seems to be run by the Pachinko giant Maruhan.<br>Both Laputa (ogikubo?) and Cinema Vera (shibuya) are, I think, founded by a cineaste business man<br>and a lawyer respectively. Perhaps these cinemas are not new (and the tradition of meiga-za certainly is not), but <br>
does anyone know if these Meiga-za are doing relatively well?<br><br>shota<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:26 AM, amy loa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amyloart@gmail.com">amyloart@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Oh my god!<br>That is a really bad news. What is happening in this world. Seems all the lovely things are disappearing;-(<br>
Should not we do something to save what we love???<br><br><br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/8 Aaron Gerow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu" target="_blank">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>></span><div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">The news services announce that Cine Saison, one of the most important mini-theaters in Tokyo since the 1980s, will be closing at the end of February. This follows the announcement about the Ebisu Garden Cinema, which will close at the end of this month. While both specialized in foreign films, the news only adds to speculations and fears that mini-theaters, one of the only venues for alternative foreign and domestic cinema in Japan against the stranglehold of the multiplexes, are dying off.<br>
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