麥寮戲院

Mailiao Theater

March 11th, 2024

Last updated June 1st, 2026

Former Mailiao Theater (舊麥寮戲院) — The former site of Mailiao Theater, later replaced by a now-defunct seafood restaurant.

A theater in Mailiao, Yunlin, established in 1958 by Xuwu Xiuying (許吳秀鶯). Historians describe it as a one-storey Minnan-style building with a projection room protruding an extra half level. It seated approximately 300 on plain wooden benches. A price war with the nearby Jincheng Theater (金城戲院) drove both out of business around 1970. In 1976 the founder leased the theater to Xu Yizhong (許義忠), a former apprentice who had worked there since the age of eight; he reopened it and, by agreement with the revived Jincheng, both cinemas set identical prices and rotated films so that neither could bid up the popular releases. Typhoon Wayne (韋恩颱風) badly damaged the building in 1986, and with business already failing, Xu Yizhong closed it for good. The theater was demolished, clearing space for a seafood restaurant (海鮮餐廳) which has now been abandoned for quite some time.

Note: this location has vanished. Any information presented here is only for reference.

提醒：此地點已消失，本文僅供參考用途。

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Recorded On

September 14th, 2025

Sources

Li Yuanjie, A Brief History of Movie Theaters in Mailiao, Yunlin County Government, 2018-04, No. 59 (ISBN 978-986-05-5628-5)李元傑，《麥寮地區戲院小史》，雲林縣政府，2018-04，第59輯