The end of mini-theaters?

[Aaron Gerow]

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.

Aaron Gerow
KineJapan owner

Associate Professor
Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
Yale University

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