Aoikan

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The {{nihongo|'''Aoikan'''|葵館}} was a movie theater in the Tameike section of Akasaka in Tokyo, Japan. It existed since the mid-1910s as a high-class foreign film theater, featuring ''benshi'' such as Musei Tokugawa.

After the 1923 earthquake, it re-opened in October 1924 with a new, modern design created by prominent avant-garde artists. Seisaku Yoshikawa was in charge of architectural design, Yasuji Ogishima did the sculptural reliefs on the front of the building, and Tomoyoshi Murayama designed the interior.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://20thkenchiku.jugem.jp/?eid=217|title=Aoikan|last=Kikuchi|date=January 13, 2010|publisher=Shūzōko ichigōkan|language=Japanese|accessdate=5 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sainet.or.jp/~junkk/mavo/aoi2ogisima.htm|title=Aoikan rerīfu no chōkokuka Ogishima Yasuji|publisher=Bunriha kenchiku hakubutsukan|language=Japanese|accessdate=5 April 2010}}</ref> Murayama also did the cover illustrations for the theater's pamphlets in the first few years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gemart.exblog.jp/1200007/|title=Aoikan to Aoi wīkurī|date=March 12, 2006|publisher=Aoyama biyori|language=Japanese|accessdate=5 April 2010}}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ia6t-tkhs/aoikan.htm Akasaka Aoikan] The Aoikan pamphlet ''Aoi Weekly'' (in Japanese)

Category:Theatres completed in 1913 Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 1923 Category:Theatres completed in 1924 Category:Buildings and structures demolished in 1931 Category:1913 establishments in Japan Category:1931 disestablishments in Japan Category:Former cinemas and movie theaters Category:Cinemas in Tokyo Category:Buildings and structures in Minato, Tokyo Category:Nikkatsu Category:Akasaka, Tokyo