Kamakura Cinema World

[Eija Margit Niskanen]

Maybe the Shochiku guys should have visited the London Museum of Moving
Image before designing their "museum". Eija

At 02:31 PM 11/11/98 +0900, you wrote:
>Shochiku announced yesterday that it will close its Kamakura Cinema World 
>movie theme park on December 15th.  The park, which opened in 1995 at the 
>cost of 15 billion yen, has been suffering a steady decline in attendance 
>and has already accumulated nearly 4.5 billion yen in debt.
>
>Maybe other people have other opinions (though no one I know has said 
>they liked the place), but I felt it was poorly designed from the start: 
>too dependent upon Tora-san and featuring attractions that could never 
>appeal to anyone over 6 years old.  I always wondered whether the people 
>who designed it were the same ones who've been planning much of 
>Shochiku's recent fare.  While the movies can get by on the advance 
>ticket system, real customers clearly turned down Shochiku's vision of 
>family entertainment.
>
>Aaron Gerow
>Associate Professor
>International Student Center
>Yokohama National University
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