Remember back in June when Megumi blogged about the pink movie theater Okura in Ueno that was closing down (to re-open as a "modern" porn cinema, including for women patrons)? Tokyo Reporter managed to capture the final day closing events (oh, why do I have a regular job?!). After five decades of providing the citizens what they want, the curtains came down on a landmark of porn history in Japan... Here's a couple of sample photos but you can check out more on his ...

Famous pink movie (sexploitation) theater Ueno Okura Theater is to shut its doors in August, bringing to an end fifty-nine years of sex history. A new cinema will be built in front of the old building. Okura first appeared in northeast Tokyo in 1951 and started showing pink movies from 1962. Despite its age it still attracts many old fans to its weekly three-movie schedules, with some 2,000 visitors per week. However, since the last decades saw the rise of video and then DVD, the pink movie theaters, once a staple of Japan's sex industry. There were some 300 theaters at its peak but now ...