Kanazawa Plaza Theater closed. The theaters in Korinbo Cinema Town have gone from 10 to 4 in the past 10 years [25-year ago today]

 

By the 29th, Kanazawa Plaza Theater in Korinbo Cinema Town in Kanazawa City had stopped screening commercial films. It had also removed equipment and other items due to aging facilities and a dwindling number of visitors. Tokyu Corporation (headquarters in Tokyo), which owns the facility, and Hokuriku Kogyo (headquarters in Ishikawa Prefecture), which has a lease agreement with the facility, decided not to renew the contract, and the number of theaters in Korinbo Cinema Town has decreased from 10 to 4 in the past 10 years.

Q. What is Korinbo Cinema Town?

A movie theater district once existed in the parking lot area of ​​Katamachi, which spreads out along Cinema Street, the back alley from the Korinbo intersection. One of the theaters in that theater district was the Kanazawa Plaza Theater. Before Hokuriku Kogyo signed a contract, its name was Kanazawa Nikkatsu. It opened in 1959 as a directly managed theater by Nikkatsu, a general film company. The theater screened many classic films. The one-story theater had 610 seating capacity.

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