Neiwan Theater & Hakka Cultural Cuisine Restaurant Introduction
Neiwan Theater is the last surviving wooden cinema in Taiwan that is still in operation. Originally an abandoned place, the current owner has preserved the theater's original Japanese-style charm after leasing it. It has transformed into a restaurant that combines a traditional grocery store, cultural exhibitions, screenings of classic films, and creative Hakka cuisine, passing down more than 30 years of Taiwan's culinary culture. The totemic impressions climbing through fragmented memories consist of early Neiwan's camphor refining, mining, lumbering, and the bustling old street. The splendor of yesteryears left by the old theater embodies not only nostalgia but also rich Hakka cultural features; the theater, which is over fifty years old, seems to enact the journey and stories of the past thirty years, where fragments filled with nostalgia are repeatedly savored, bringing back memories with every bite of food. As the first venue in Taiwan where dining comes with a free movie screening, Neiwan Theater, showcasing its ancient architecture, stands out as a star. This old theater, over fifty years old, is a pure two-story wooden structure in the Japanese style and has served as a filming location for movies such as "Spring and Autumn Tea House" and "Mulberry." Built in 1950 by the then councilor Yang Shengquan, the owner, while managing a logging site and camphor production, understood the leisure needs of laborers in the mountain forests, thus creating a renowned theater in a small village of merely over one thousand inhabitants at that time.
