Established in 1936 as Kokusai-kan (國際館), this luxurious air-conditioned theater was a mainstay of Ximending for decades. Initially it was directly operated by Toho Pictures (東宝映畫), the famous Japanese film company. It was renamed after the war and, after some changes in ownership structure, was controlled by the KMT as a subsidiary of the state-owned Central Motion Picture Corporation (中影公司) until it was sold and demolished in 1970. It was replaced by the iconic Wannian Building (萬年大樓), which opened in 1973.
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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Links
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
- Urban Studies (城市學)
- Facebook: Zhang Zhesheng (張哲生)
- Academia Sinica Digital Culture Center (中央研究院數位文化中心)
- Cultural Heritage Map of Old Theaters in Taiwan (臺灣老戲院文史地圖)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Theaters in Taiwan (台灣老戲院)
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