PCAD - Fuji-kan Theatre, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA

AKA: Fuji-kan Theater, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA ; Linda Lea Theatre, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA

324 East First Street
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA 90012-3823

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Site later occupied by the Hotel Tokyo;

Fujimoto Yasusaboro and Kawase Katsuguro established a movie theatre that operated in Little Tokyo from 1925-1940; the theatre cost $25,000 to build and had 350 seats; due to construction cost over-runs, the Fuji-kan experienced financial problems in 1925-1926; the theatre closed 12/1925 and reopened 01/15/1926; Fuji-kan screened its first Japanese-language sound motion picture, Komoriuta, 4/5/1931; the proprietors of Fuji-kan installed a sound motion picture system manufactured by Western Electric, 04/30/1935.

After the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II, the owners rechristened their business, the Linda Lea Theatre, which opened 10/30/1947;

PCAD id: 1455

Publications

Ogihara Junko, "The Exhibition of Film for Japanese-Americans in Los Angeles during the Silent Film Era", Film History, 4: 2, 84-87, 1990.

Fuji-kan Theatre, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA (1925)

Publications