Quentin Tarantino is on the verge of fulfilling his lifelong ambition to run his own cinema.

The Kill Bill writer-director is negotiating to lease the vacant King Hing cinema in Los Angeles’ Chinatown district and plans to show the kinds of films he loves – Asian martial arts films, spaghetti Westerns and 1970s blaxploitation films, reports Variety.

Tarantino also plans to restore the hundreds of old Chinese language films in storage at the cinema and show them, too, along with films from his expansive library.

Tarantino grew up-watching old Chinese martial arts films at the 425-seat King Hing, which stopped showing films in the mid-’90s and was the last of the three Chinatown cinemas to close.

It is the only one still in working condition.