United Cinemas Canal City & IMAX

Fukuoka · JapanConfirmed ×2

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room D, 39/100 — a small room carrying a premium badge — it fails the large-format premise on size, whatever the projector, 120 m² of lit picture. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 5 November 2026.

1-2-22 Sumiyoshi Hakata-ku, Hakata-ku.

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1-2-22 Sumiyoshi Hakata-ku, Hakata-ku, 812-0018 · Open in maps ↗

Map position approximate (city centre)

IQ 39

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Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen: 15.1 m × 8.4 m (127 m²)
Screen shape: 1.80:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 360
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2010
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⚠ LIEMAX — at 15.1m wide this is in the smallest tenth of IMAX screens worldwide (the median is 20 m), showing a 1.90 frame. Good projection can't buy back screen size.

Why IQ 39

Screen size7/38

120 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · 2 independent sources

Projection24/36

IMAX Commercial Laser · 2 independent sources

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

How big, really?

Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m

1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
3United Cinemas Canal City & IMAX · 15.1×8.4 m · picture 120 m², 5% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

1 double-decker bus fit on this screen (1 across × 1 up · 127 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 127 m²
Picture: 120 m²
Screen used: 95%

0.5 m of this screen's height — 5% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.

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Where this comes from

Confirmed ×2

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions: confirmed by 2 sources
Projector: confirmed by 2 sources
Operating status: verified open

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