O.S. Cinerama Gekijo
30 Komatsuhara-cho Kita-ku,
Osaka
530-0018
30 Komatsuhara-cho Kita-ku,
Osaka
530-0018
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On the night of September 15, 1954 at approximately 8:30 PM JT, a fire broke out near the OS Theater’s screen, destroying the steel-framed, wooden, mortar-covered theater. Approximately 1,000 people were in the theater showing Elizabeth Taylor’s “Rhapsody,” and a total of 18 of them suffered serious or minor injuries, including the theater’s projectionist. Osaka Police were deployed to control the crowd due to the fire being in a busy downtown area.
The theater was immediately rebuilt afterward, and relaunched as the O.S. Cinerama Gekjo on January 15, 1955, featuring its 3-strip Cinerama system.
This started life as the “O.S. Theater” opening on July 31, 1947. On January 15, 1955, it was renamed “O.S. Cinerama” after the installations of Cinerama.
Throughout time, a lot of notable American films such as “Ben-Hur”, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “Star Wars”, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, “Apocalypse Now”, “Willow”, “Robocop 2”, “Ghost”, and “Dick Tracy” were screened at the O.S. Cinerama.