Kurume Central Hall

The Kurume Nikkatsu and Central Theatres opened their doors in 1967, and a third theater named the “Central Small Theater” was added by the following year which would later become the Kurume Underground Masterpiece Theater by 1973.

Two more theaters named the Kurume Toei Central and the Kurume Toho Theater (not to be confused with another theater also named the Kurume Toho Theater nearby) were added in 1974 bringing a total to five screens, and two more screens were added by 1980 bringing a total to seven screens with the auditorium names “Kurume Toho Eigeki, Kurume Nikkatsu, Kurume Central Subaru, Kurume Central Roxy, Kurume Cinema Plaza, Kurume Oscar, and Kurume Toei Central”.

An eighth screen was added by the mid-1980s when the Central auditorium expanded to three screens. At the time as of 1985, it went under the names “Kurume Toho Theater, Kurume Central 1, 2, 3, Kurume Cinema Plaza, Kurume La Scala, Kurume Oscar, and Kurume Subaruza”.

Unfortunately in the mid-1990s, many of the auditoriums closed one-by-one. Two of them closed by 1995, which left the Kurume Toho Theater, Kurume Central 1, 2, 3, Kurume Scala-za, and Kurume Subaru-za Theaters being the only ones operating at the time. But that turned around when it dropped from six screens to three by the early-2000s, leaving the twin-screen Scala-za and Subaru-za theaters the remaining ones left.

The Scala-za had two theaters with the same name nearby. The original location which opened in 1957 closed in June 2006 because of the theater becoming a multiplex victim, and the other Scala-za closed on March 1, 2008 for the same exact reason, leaving the Subaru the only theater operating in the once-known multi-theater until its closure on October 14, 2014.

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