Edomachi-Taito Entertainment Festival is a festival of stylishness,
rich humanity, and open mindedness.
You can enjoy various cultures of entertainment and
arts
that have been protected, nurtured and passed
down to this day in the relaxing way.
The energy of Taito City and its residents has derived from lifestyle of downtown full of stylishness, rich humanity, and open mindedness. Our predecessors have honed and nurtured the arts and delivered leading arts from the downtown. The City has played an important role in the creation of popular culture as the major center of entertainment. That tradition and class have remained strongly to this day, continuing to attract the people.
We have a responsibility to continue passing down and further develop the entertainment and traditional culture that are rooted in the City, as they have been nurtured through the history and passed down to this day.
In doing so, it is important for residents and visitors to the City to have an opportunity to come into contact with these cultures and feel their charm first hand while finding new talents for the next generations and supporting them are required.
We will comprehensively support entertainment and traditional culture unique to the City and offer initiatives rooted in the community.
Edomachi-Taito Entertainment Festival
Executive Committee
Honorary Advisor
TAKESHI KITANO
This is the town I found myself in when I was young. I don't know why but I was tap dancing in the dressing room. I was on a stage of an entertainment theater with only two audiences. I had no money back then, but audiences that I didn't know bought me drinks at different places in the town.
This town was also where I first went to a movie theater and vaudeville with my brother when I was a little kid. It's been several decades since then. I've shot films, drawn paintings, and even became a teacher at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Here, a town where countless living arts mix, is my origin. Follow your heart and relax, laugh, and cry at the Edomachi-Taito Entertainment Festival.
