"West Gate" is the only Taiwanese customary used since the Japanese era names, but also the Japanese occupation of Taiwan film, theater birthplace, is the post-war Taiwan cinema and film industry to focus on.

1922 (Taisho eleven years, 1922), the Japanese occupation of Taiwan Governor for Taiwan, Japan's assimilation policy, repealing the original village street name, use the Japanese manner, will be divided into 64-machi Taipei 19 tribes, then Taipei Ximending, sentences including Tsukiji-cho, Japan times, Shou-cho, Shirahama-cho, Suehiro-cho, Izumi-cho other places. After the retrocession of the Chengdu Road, Changsha Street, Xining South Road to the west and China's Wuchang Street, Emei Street, Neijiang Street, Kunming Street area, was the Japanese residential area, and Tataocheng, Wanhua District of Taiwanese areas that are isolated , which has five first-class Japanese cinema seats tatami, also known movie Street.