As for where to see performances year round, besides the new Yau Ma Tei Theatre?

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Both are suspected of making payments of millions of yen to a so-called "sokaiya" corporate extortionist, Terubo Tei, since 1995.

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The agency said police were also investigating Mitsubishi Estate, Hitachi and other companies said to have made large payments to Tei.

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There are two screenings of each film, one at the film archive in Sai Wan Ho and the other at indie theatre Broadway Cinematheque in Yau Ma Tei.

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In a similar payoff scandal, four executives of Mitsubishi Motors were arrested in October on suspicion of paying more than nine million yen to Tei and another sokaiya gangster since 1995, Kyodo said.

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