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Location: VIZ Cinema at NEW PEOPLE in San Francisco

When: May 21 through June 5

More info: http://www.newpeopleworld.com/films/

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Private Cocktail Reception: 6pm – 7:15pm.

Private Movie Screening of Death Note: 7:30pm – (120min)
At NEW PEOPLE Lobby and VIZ Cinema

NEW PEOPLE is excited to host its first VIP movie event! RSVP now for the VIP Reception. We’ll have a DJ spinning beats while the Mixologists serve up cool Red Bull Cocktails & Mocktails plus a few nibbles for your enjoyment.

The VIP reception is from 6 to 7:15 and is open to all RSVP’s. The private screening of Death Note will be open to the first 125 folks who check in at the VIP Reception so get there early!

More info & RSVP here – http://www.newpeopleworld.com/news/deathnotenight/

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2008, 113min, With English Subtitles, Directed by Hiroyuki Imaishi
Location: Viz Cinema, New People 1st Floor
Tickets: $10 + service fee if bought online

To welcome its first audience, VIZ Pictures is going to giveaway 10 free tickets to the premiere screening of 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End, which has a limited run beginning 8/15. For a chance to win a free ticket, email your full name with “Tickets to 20th Century Boys 1″ in the subject to info@vizcinema.com. Winners will be picked and notified by Monday, August 10th.

Source: http://www.newpeopleworld.com/upcoming-events/win-a-free-ticket-to-the-premiere-screening-of-20th-century-boys/

All under one roof, come and enjoy the cinema, retail, art, and food at NEW PEOPLE. Get lost, meet new people, stop for a sip of coffee, and dream a dream. With the gallery on top and cinema down below, we’re sure that you’ll have a wonderful journey in-between, so take your time to savor it all.

The celebration will be accompanied by the J-POP SUMMIT Festival 2009, a pop culture-themed street fair that covers the grounds of Post Street from Webster to Buchanan to the Peace Plaza of Japantown, San Francisco. This year’s festival is hosted by NEW PEOPLE in cooperation with the Japantown Merchants Association, and centered around the grand opening of the NEW PEOPLE building. It all starts with the official tape cutting ceremony, and after the traditional Kagami-wari (breaking of the sake barrel), NEW PEOPLE will open its doors to the public for the very first time.

The grand opening finale is a glamorous red carpet premiere event of the Japanese hit movie 20th Century Boys at VIZ CINEMA, after a series of pop culture panels with a variety of guests from Tokyo and the local community, at the J-POP SUMMIT Stage co-presented by Yelp! in front of NEW PEOPLE.

Source: New People

It looks like Japantown will be getting a great boost soon… San Francisco-based Viz Pictures (an affiliate of Viz Media) is in the process of constructing the J-POP Center in San Francisco’s Japantown. The J-POP Center will be a commercial building housing a branch of Kinokuniya Book Store, a cafe, several trendy Japanese fashion boutiques, and the 150-seat movie theater Viz Cinema. Viz Cinema will focus on Japanese film, including first-run movies directly from Tokyo, anime films, monthly directors’ series, and more.

According to a news post on the Viz Pictures official website, the J-POP Center (and presumably Viz Cinema) is scheduled to open in 2009.

The J-POP Center website: www.jpopcenter.com
Viz Cinema website: www.vizcinema.com

(Details from: SF360)