It was known as the Toho Theatre from the late 1960s until the 1970s. Saperstein, Toho took over the La Brea Theatre in Los Angeles to show its own films without the need to sell them to a distributor. Īfter several successful film exports to the United States during the 1950s through Henry G. Toho and Shochiku competed with the influx of Hollywood films and boosted the film industry by focusing on new directors of the likes of Kurosawa Akira, Ichikawa Kon, Kinoshita Keisuke, Ishiro Honda, and Shindo Kaneto. It managed much of the kabuki in Tokyo and, among other properties, the eponymous Tokyo Takarazuka Theater and the Imperial Garden Theater in Tokyo Toho and Shochiku enjoyed a duopoly over theaters in Tokyo for many years. Toho was created by the founder of the Hankyu Railway, Ichizō Kobayashi, in 1932 as the Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value). Toho is one of the four members of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ), and is the largest of Japan's Big Four film studios. The company is the largest shareholder (7.96%) of Fuji Media Holdings Inc. Company Limited, and Toho Music Corporation & Toho Costume Company Limited. Its subdivisions are Toho-Towa Company, Limited (Japanese exclusive theatrical distributor of Universal Pictures via NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan and Paramount Pictures), Toho Pictures Incorporated, Toho International Company Limited, Toho E. Toho has also been involved in the production of numerous anime titles. Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla are described as Toho's Big Five because of the monsters' numerous appearances in all three eras of the franchise, as well as spin-offs. Toho's most famous creation is Godzilla, who is featured in 32 of the company's films. Other famous directors, including Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Masaki Kobayashi, and Mikio Naruse, also directed films for Toho. Outside Japan, it is best known as the producer and distributor of many kaiju and tokusatsu films, the Chouseishin tokusatsu superhero television franchise, the films of Akira Kurosawa, and the anime films of Studio Ghibli, TMS Entertainment and OLM, Inc. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. is a Japanese film, theater production and distribution company. Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value).
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