Kyogoku Toho Theater

50sSNIPES on April 10, 2025 at 10:05 pm

Originally operated with 958 seats when it opened on December 19, 1954, the Kyogoku Toho Theater was the replacement of an earlier and short-lived twin-screen Toho and Daiei Theater at the same building, which went under the auditorium names “Kyogoku Toho” and “Kyogoku Daiei”. The original Kyogoku Toho opened at the site after the Sanyu closed in 1945, and the “Kyogoku Daiei” auditorium was also added for a very short time.

Both of those theaters closed in 1954 when it was renovated, and was upgraded to a much larger single-screener, and that’s how the newer Kyogoku Toho began its operations.

At approximately 10:20 AM on February 12, 1965, a boiler exploded during a showing at the Kyogoku Toho but nobody was injured. The theater continued to open following the incident.