Lawson United Cinemas Minatomirai Movie Theatres

Moving through this corridor space, your journey begins at the lower foreground where speckled terrazzo-style flooring extends forward, its surface mixing dark charcoal tones with lighter flecks of gray, cream, and tan creating a granular texture that would feel smooth and cool beneath your feet, solid and stable, while catching bright pools of warm amber light that fall in oval shapes from ceiling fixtures above, these illuminated zones contrasting with darker shadowed passages between them creating a rhythmic pattern of light and dark underfoot. Rising to eye level on your left, the wall surface presents deep midnight blue panels with a smooth, glossy finish that would feel cool and slick to touch like polished enamel, punctuated by geometric sections in warm golden amber that glow softly, while the most striking element emerges as a large suspended spherical luminaire positioned left of center at mid-height, appearing approximately three feet in diameter, its form constructed from delicate linear elements arranged in meridian-like curves creating a cage structure through which warm golden light emanates from within, the metal framework creating intricate shadow patterns while the whole sphere seems to float weightlessly, its warm amber glow suggesting the gentle heat of candlelight or late afternoon sun. On your right, the wall composition shifts between deep charcoal matte surfaces that would feel slightly textured, smooth blue panels, and a dramatically illuminated section in the middle distance where brilliant red-orange light pours from what appears to be a recessed portal or doorway, this warm light having the intensity and temperature of sunset or fire, creating a visual beacon that draws attention forward and rightward, below which a curved yellow-ochre element adds chromatic warmth. Moving into the middle ground, the corridor continues deeper with additional doorways visible at left where cool white-blue light suggests theater entrances, numbered signs indicating destinations, directional markers including a white arrow on blue background pointing left, and informational panels providing wayfinding details. The overall atmosphere feels enveloped in darkness like evening or night, the concentrated light sources creating intimate pools of illumination against pervasive shadow, the air seemingly still and quiet with the hushed expectancy of a theater lobby, the space extending forward along a strong central axis where walls converge toward a distant glowing passage rendered in warm amber creating depth that suggests continuation beyond immediate view, the temperature feeling climate-controlled and comfortable, the acoustic quality implied as sound-dampened and intimate, the entire environment designed to transition visitors from exterior everyday reality into the special realm of cinema through carefully orchestrated color, light, material, and spatial progression that awakens anticipation and focuses attention forward toward the luminous destination ahead.

One of the challenging cinemas in Japan opened in Yokohama Minato Mirai. The Flexound Augmented Audio system in every seat, projectors installed above the customer corridor and an 5.5 meters atrium space that is as if huge cave or dangeon. The largest screen theatre is a reuse of one left by a previous tenant and modified to fit us. Overcoming many difficulties to build a new cinema in a facility with a different purpose, the cinema adapts many uncommon methods was born.