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Tokyo Theatre (東京戲院) was a small theatre on the ground floor of a 4-storey building at 19-31 Yee Wo Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.  It had a seating capacity of 130 but its operating period is estimated to be from 1993 to late 1990s.  For the purpose of this page, the closing date is estimated to be 1997, based on information on theatres that also operated in the same building - Roxy and BM Causeway Bay.    The street level area is now occupied by shops.

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Sun Sing Theatre and Acme Theatre shared the same address, both had almost identical seating capaciy and operating period.   A Google street walk shows the two opposite ends of the same city block have a theatrical-facade look, so they were two separate theatres.  The place-page for Acme Theatre can be found here: http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/26274.

Sun Sing seating capacity: 767 (source: HKTA)

Address: 23 Morrison Hill Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.  South Pacific Hotel is the current occupant at the site.

Seating capacity: 2 screens, 352 and 374, total 726.

The first theatre to operate at the site was Nanyang Theatre (南洋戲院).   There is place-page for Nanyang Theatre [1966-1990]  https://gwulo.com/nanyang-theatre#18/22.27731/114.18025/Map_by_ESRI-Mar…, thus this page discusses its successor South Pacific Theatre.

Seating capacity: 1,278 original; subsequent renovation in 1990 led to two screens having separate capacity of 847 and 400; and another renovaion in early 2000s reduced the theatre to one hall having capacity of 400. 

Address:  180 Portland Street, Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.  Sun Hing Building Car Park is the current occupant at the site.

Seating capacity: 2 screens, total 961.

Address: 17 Nam Hong Street, Smiling Shau Kei Wan Plaza, Hong Kong.  The space for the cinema has been converted to home for the elderly.

Smiling Cinema operated during the period July 1, 1993 - some time in 1996.

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Seating capacity: 1,305

Address: 275 Chatham Road, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.  Wei King Building is the current occupant at the site.

Sky Theatre operated during the period Augut 12, 1961 - August 15, 1973.

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Seating capacity: 1,128

Address: On Tai Road, Tai Po Plaza, Tai Po,​ Hong Kong.  On west side north of On Pong Road.

​Silver Star Cinema operated during the period December 31, 1985 - sometime in 1999.  A 2011 Google street view photo shows a part of the theatre's name remains in place on the facade of the plaza.

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Seating capacity:  Original 1,440.  In 1990, the theatre was twinned with capacity of 804 in the stalls and 440 on the balcony; and was reduced to one screen some time in early 2000's with a capacity of 440.

Address:  88 Fu Yan Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, about 250 metres north-northwest of the Kwun Tong Station.  A 2011 Google photo shows the building remained standing at that time with shops operating at street level.  Two years later, in 2013, the building was demolished.

Silver Theatre operated during the period September 7, 1963 - July 9, 2009.

Seating capacity: 858

Address: Shun Lee Shopping Centre, Phase II, Shun Lee Estate, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

The area was once Shun Lee Village.  Shun Lee Theatre was built as part of the public housing estate by the government.  It operated during the period June 25, 1981 - July 11, 1996.  After the theatre was demolished in 1999, the site was turned into a shopping plaza, and next changed to a senior retirement residence.

Theatre photos - https://gwulo.com/atom/28797 , https://gwulo.com/atom/28798

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Seating capacity: 996