Charlie Chaplin's 'City Lights' Screens at Tokyo's Historic Kabukiza Theater — hollywoodreporter.com

The Tokyo International Film Festival celebrated one of classic Hollywood's most improbable — and charming — episodes of cultural exchange with Japan on Monday, hosting a one-time screening of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights in Tokyo's famed Kabukiza Theater. Chaplin visited Japan several times during the course of his life and was known to be an avid admirer of kabuki, the traditional dance and theatrical form birthed in Japan some 400 years ago and refined over the course of four eras of Japanese history. Coincidentally, the Kabukiza Theater in Tokyo's Ginza district — today a world heritage site — opened in 1889, the year of Chaplin's birth.

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