Your Name.

Makoto Shinkai’s animated blockbuster and global pop culture hit YOUR NAME. (Kimi no Na wa.) is headed to the Rio Theatre – in both Japanese with English subs (May 1) and with the remastered English dub (May 3). Written and directed by Shinkai (“5 Centimeters Per Second,” “The Garden of Words”), YOUR NAME. has already … Read more

Wolf Children (Double Bill)

Join us at the Rio Theatre for an anime double bill featuring two titles by Mamoru Hosada on Thursday, june 25: SUMMER WARS and WOLF CHILDREN. Both titles will be screened in Japanese with English subtitles. All ages welcome in the balcony! Thursday, June 25 SUMMER WARS Doors 6:30 | Movie 7:00 ———————————————– WOLF CHILDREN … Read more

Wolf Children

Join us at the Rio Theatre for an anime double bill featuring two titles by Mamoru Hosada on Thursday, june 25: SUMMER WARS and WOLF CHILDREN. Both titles will be screened in Japanese with English subtitles. All ages welcome in the balcony! Thursday, June 25 SUMMER WARS Doors 6:30 | Movie 7:00 WOLF CHILDREN Movie … Read more

Wife of a Spy

Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (PULSE, CURE, TOKYO SONATA) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller shot in stunning 8K. The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku (Issey Takahashi, … Read more

When Marnie Was There

Join us for another Studio Ghibli double bill night, featuring Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE followed by Hayao Miyazaki’s HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE. Both features will be screened in Japanese with English subtitles. All ages welcome! Sunday, August 2 WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE – Doors 4:30 / Movie 5:00 HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE – Movie 7:00 … Read more

Weathering With You

GKIDS proudly presents the highly-anticipated new film from director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura, the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed, global smash hit YOUR NAME. The story is set during the summer of Hodaka’s high school freshman year, when he runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed … Read more

VIFF: Hard-Core

The Rio Theatre is proud to be one of the returning hosting venues for The Vancouver International Film Festival VIFF presents the world’s best cinema fused with related talks and events in a unique Films+ model. Annually, VIFF presents over 320 films and events, plays host to approximately 400 industry professionals from around the globe … Read more

Utano Princesama Maji LOVE Kingdom Movie

Based on the popular game released in June 2010, Uta no ☆Prince-sama ♪Maji LOVE has been adapted into a four-season anime that aired from 2011 to 2016. The featured pop idols have shared their feelings with countless fans, fostering both love and dreams – and now, in 2019, they finally take the stage! These idols … Read more

Urotsukidoji III: Return of the Overfiend

As the Overfiend slumbers, the mad emperor Caesar rises to power, enslaving a new race of demon beasts. Into this cruel existence is born the Lord of Chaos, the Overfiend’s nemesis. As the blood-thirsty beasts capture the tyrant’s daughter in a brutal coup, the Overfiend must awaken to an apocalyptic battle of the Gods.

Tokyo Story

“One of cinema’s greatest masterpieces.” (Film Comment) Loosely based it on the relatively obscure 1937 American film MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW, director Yasujirō Ozu‘s TOKYO STORY was initially released in Japan in 1953, to little attention. It was initially considered “too Japanese” to be marketable abroad, but in the years since, the film (which tells … Read more