Shibuya Toei Plaza, Movie theater in Shibuya district, Japan.
Shibuya Toei Plaza is a building at the Miyamasuzaka-shita intersection in Shibuya 1-chome, Tokyo, whose 7th and 9th floors held the cinemas Shibuya Toei and Shibuya Hermitage. The two-screen complex opened on 20 February 1993, with 407 seats plus three wheelchair spaces on the 7th floor and 299 seats plus three wheelchair spaces on the 9th. It closed on 4 December 2022.
Shibuya Toei opened on 18 November 1953 as Toei's first directly operated cinema, with two halls named Shibuya Toei and Shibuya Toei Chika; the opening programme was the all-colour period film Nichirin starring Chiezō Kataoka. The halls closed on 14 September 1990 for redevelopment, and on 20 February 1993 the Shibuya Toei Plaza building reopened with Shibuya Toei on the 7th floor and Shibuya Hermitage on the 9th. Renamed Shibuya TOEI 1 and 2 in 2004, the cinemas closed for good on 4 December 2022.
The cinema closed on 4 December 2022; its last screenings were Yojiro Takita's "Poppoya" (1999), requested by many older viewers, and Kinji Fukasaku's "Battle Royale", the highest-grossing film among Toei's directly operated theatres nationwide. In 2023 the site became Bunkamura Le Cinema Shibuya Miyashita, which opened on 21 June after Bunkamura's own theatre closed for redevelopment.
The cinema closed on 4 December 2022, so there is no screening to attend; the former seventh- and ninth-floor halls of Shibuya Toei Plaza are gone. Since June 2023 the site has housed Bunkamura Le Cinema Shibuya Miyashita, which moved there during Bunkamura's redevelopment. Check that venue's current location before travelling, as it occupies the former cinema's space.
The cinema closed on 4 December 2022; its last screenings were Yojiro Takita's "Poppoya" and Kinji Fukasaku's "Battle Royale", the highest-grossing film among Toei's directly operated theatres nationwide. In 2023 the site became Bunkamura Le Cinema Shibuya Miyashita, which moved there during Bunkamura's redevelopment.
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