AMC Dine-In Kabuki 8, Movie theater in Japan Center, San Francisco, US
AMC Dine-In Kabuki 8 is a movie theater in the Japantown neighborhood of San Francisco with eight screens. The venue offers a full dining service, so visitors can order food and drinks and bring them directly into the screening room.
The Kabuki Theater opened in 1960 as a large dinner theater and was the first multiplex in San Francisco. Designed as the first authentic Kabuki theater in America, it had a proscenium, a stage entrance ramp, a revolving stage and trap doors. Acquired by Sundance Cinemas in 2006 and reopened in December 2007, it returned to AMC in 2016 and was renamed AMC Kabuki 8 in April 2018.
The cinema is one of the main venues for the San Francisco International Film Festival, where independent and international films are shown to local audiences. During the festival, the place draws people who come specifically to see films they would not find at a standard multiplex.
It is a good idea to place your food order before entering the screening room, as meals are timed to be ready at the start of the show. The entrance is on Post Street in Japantown, which makes it easy to find on foot from the surrounding area.
The original 1960 Kabuki Theater was built as America's first authentic Kabuki stage, with a proscenium, a stage entrance ramp, a revolving stage and trap doors. Its restaurant served only Chinese and American food so it would not take customers from the Japanese restaurants of the Japan Center.
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