Tokyo Theater Memories

Just found out a few very cool Tokyo movie theaters have closed. Two were in Asakusa, on a block that house 4 or 5 theaters in a row. One of the closed theaters showed newish foreign action movies. It's defunct sister theater showed Japanese films from the '60s to the mid '80s. Lots of samurai and yakuza fare. If the translation was correct these theaters have been around since the mid-1940s. Sadly, I always seemed to miss a Female Prisoner Scorpion or Lone Wolf and Cub movie by a few days on my travels to Tokyo.  

Theater-N in Shibuya also closed it's doors recently. I saw The Descent 2 there a few years back. It was a nice, decent sized theater with programing that seemed to cater to the arthouse and "cult" movie crowd. 

Here are some pics of the theater displays in Asakusa. 

 

Sales Flyer for the first R1 Godzilla DVDs,

 

 Evil Dead Japanese Movie pamphlet 

 

Some of the crap up for grabs in the Oily Maniac's Holiday contest. 

There will be some more stuff added. I'd rather give this stuff to a good home than sell it on eBay for $1.54.  Just drop me a line in the comments or email me to enter. Judging by this blog's traffic your odds are probably 100%. I'll randomly pick a winner or choose the person who sends a pic that includes "I want the Oily Maniac's stuff" next to a live nude body. No corpse pics please, don't need any legal hassles.  If you live outside North America you're going to have to pay for shipping. Sorry. 

 

 

Fun from 1980s Japanese Sci-Fi/Horror magazine. 

Look at those VHS prices and feel better about your blu-ray purchases. Sorry about the crappy scans......

Chinese Hopping Vampire Halloween Costume

Print. Affix to forehead. Hop.

 

Japanese flyer for Italian Nazisploitation DVD set.

I Love Maria/Roboforce and Magic of Spell (or one of the similar movies like Magic Warriors) Japanese double feature advert

If you were in Japan in 1989 you might have been able to catch this in a theater near you.

 

Vintage PRONG flyer

Saw Prong back in '91 at a very intimate show at a dive venue in the outskirts of Pittsburgh. Nice guys, even played some arcade games with them. And the show was fantastic.