I went to United Cinema Kishiwada since the second IMAX Theater in Kansai opened

There are a lot of methods unexpectedly, including "anaglyph" which uses red and blue glasses as in the appendix to children's magazines as a 3D display method. Among them, "Avatar" attracted attention when screening was "IMAX Digital 3DIt is format. In Japan, movie theaters that can screen this IMAX digital and IMAX digital 3D are limited, and at the time of "Avatar" screening there were only 4 screens in Japan.

At present, the number of IMAX theaters is increasing, and the IMAX theater which is the second in Kansai on December 17UNITED CINEMA KishiwadaIt opened in. 3D movie released from the same day "TRON: LegacySince the opening ceremony and the screening were held in a form adapted to the ", I saw what it is like.

Details of the interior are as follows.
United Cinema Kishiwada | Kishiwada Kankan Bayside Mall

I arrived at the movie theater. Kishiwada Kankan It is located on the 3rd floor of Bayside Mall.


Inside the shopping mall, "IMAX digital theater was born", the curtain of big publicity was falling.




Let's get inside.


The ticket office is like this.


The entrance of Theater 7 which was refurbished to IMAX digital theater this time.



It is infiltrating inside the theater.


Two projectors are prepared behind. Thanks to this, we are achieving high image quality.


Space for wheelchair dedicated to front right of screen. Every movie theater has space, but it is rare that it is largely separated like this


Seat is basically unattended as it is still open.





3D glasses, blue frame is for adults.


Yellow frame for children. The IMAX digital 3D glasses are pretty light, and can be applied even from above the glasses.


"Your movie feeling will change."It seems that the copy of the movie theater changes due to the opening of the IMAX digital theater and double meing that the movie feel changes when you see the movie.


So it is an opening ceremony.


First of all IMAX digital theater's countdown trailer and IMAX guide movie. In theater of IMAX, this movie that flowed before the movie screening, the person who saw it for the first time thought that it was "awesome" although it was not yet the main part.





Following greetings by United Cinema President Miyata (the second from the right), Mr. Tsujii General Manager at Bayside Mall (left), IMAX Japan's Takaya General Manager (second from left), Mr. Matsushita of United Cinema Kishiwada The manager (rightmost) joined, and the mirror opening by the four people was held.


As a surprise, comment video from Director Joseph Kosinsky of "TRON: Legacy" also flowed. I heard there are special pictures only seen in IMAX during the main part ... ....


This is a demonstration video. "THIS IS IT" and "Transformer Revenge" in digital 2D, and "Hubble 3D" and "Avatar" in digital 3D flowed. First of all, the size of the image is amazing, but avatar is optimized for IMAX in particular, and it is a visual beauty that you truly feel like I went to the planet Pandora. It is a pity that we have already finished publishing, but if you have the opportunity to screen IMAX digital 3D somewhere, please do come and see.








This time, I was able to talk a bit about a story to Mr. Masaki Miyata, President and CEO of United Cinema Corporation and Kiyohito Takitani General Manager, IMAX Japan Ltd.


The point of the IMAX digital theater is checking the theater design with a computer, and it is made so that it can be satisfied even if you sit in the seat of both sound and image. Using two projectors, the images are very clearly projected, which is totally different from home theaters and others. It seems to be "seeing is believing 100 times."


In the future, more works will be increasingly seen only at the IMAX theater, and next year IMAX version of 18 to 20 appears. From the viewer of the movie there is an advantage of clearing the image as described above, but the management side also has the merit that the cost drops significantly compared with the film, and when the number of films is sent and finished There seems to be no work of returning the heavy baggage, which seems to be good.


As IMAX and United Cinema have signed up, IMAX digital theater opens in Sapporo, Fukuoka and Urawa as well as Kishiwada. However, it is not a matter of increasing the number in the future, but it seems that it is a policy to narrow the number because "rare value is important". If you have an IMAX theater nearby, please visit and experience the image and sound.