{"id":42722,"date":"2024-12-27T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T23:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=42722"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:10:07","slug":"finalopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/finalopening\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Final Yamato<\/em> in theaters, 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These photos were originally published in the doujinshi <em>Hero&#8217;s Trajectory, Final Yamato<\/em> published in 2018 by Toshinori Watanabe\/Yamatoland Archives. Comments are from Watanabe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere01.JPG\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<p>Shibuya Tokyu Rex<\/p>\n<p>At the time, <em>Yamato<\/em> occupied the the first floor of the large-capacity Shibuya Pantheon to the Shibuya Tokyu Rex in the basement. This was one of the best advertising spaces for <em>Yamato<\/em> in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere02.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nSign above ticket office<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere03.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nWall next to stairs<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere04.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nPoster wrapped around pillar<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere05.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nTheater entrance<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere06.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nElectric sign<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere07.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nDisplay at a record store<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere08.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nMarquee at Shinjuku Tokyu<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere09.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nSign on front facade<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere10.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nOutdoor sign near train station<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere11.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nSign above ticket office<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere12.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nSign in front of ticket office<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere13.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nMarquee at Shinjuku Toei Palace<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jan26\/FYpremiere14.JPG\" border=0 \/><br \/>\nSign in front of theater<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>My main movie theater was Shinjuku Tokyu. I went dozens of times, so the theater manager was nice to me. On the last day, he le me watch the movie in a reserved seat even though I had a regular ticket.<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/091b'>Return to previous article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42894,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42722\/revisions\/42894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}