Aoikan

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| name = {{nihongo|Aoikan|葵館}}

| image = Aoi Kwan Theatre 1924.jpg

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| caption = Aoikan Theatre 1924

| logo_image = Aoi Kwan Theatre 1913.png

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| address = Minato-ku

| city = Akasaka, Tokyo

| country = Japan

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| opened = July 1913

| reopened = 1924

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| demolished = 1931

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The {{nihongo|Aoikan|葵館}} was a movie theater in the Tameike section of Akasaka in Tokyo, Japan. It existed since the mid–1910s as a high-class foreign film theater, featuring benshi such as Musei Tokugawa.

After the 1923 earthquake, it re-opened in October 1924 with a new, modern design created by prominent avant-garde artists. Seisaku Yoshikawa was in charge of architectural design, Yasuji Ogishima did the sculptural reliefs on the front of the building, and Tomoyoshi Murayama designed the interior.{{cite web|url=http://20thkenchiku.jugem.jp/?eid=217|title=Aoikan|last=Kikuchi|date=January 13, 2010|publisher=Shūzōko ichigōkan|language=Japanese|accessdate=5 April 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sainet.or.jp/~junkk/mavo/aoi2ogisima.htm|title=Aoikan rerīfu no chōkokuka Ogishima Yasuji|publisher=Bunriha kenchiku hakubutsukan|language=Japanese|accessdate=5 April 2010}} Murayama also did the cover illustrations for the theater's pamphlets in the first few years.{{cite web|url=http://gemart.exblog.jp/1200007/|title=Aoikan to Aoi wīkurī|date=March 12, 2006|publisher=Aoyama biyori|language=Japanese|accessdate=5 April 2010}}

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