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Shochiku. Shochiku Co., Ltd. (松竹株式会社, Shōchiku Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese entertainment company. It started its business in 1895 by managing kabuki theaters in Kyoto, and in 1914, it also acquired ownership of the Kabuki-za theater in Tokyo. In 1920, Shochiku entered the film production industry and established the Kamata Film ...
Sep 13, 2020 · A fictionalized version of those early days of “kinema” was told in the 1984 NHK morning drama series “Romance”. Perhaps without realizing it, most people who pass through JR Kamata station hear the theme music from that drama. It is the tune played to warn passengers that the train doors are about to close. Even as the Shochiku studio ...
Aug 30, 2020 · Matsujiro Shirai and Takejiro Otani were brothers who founded Shochiku in 1895 and built it into a leading force in kabuki and other entertainments. They were also believers in the future of motion pictures, a new form of popular entertainment with a growing market, and in 1920 they established Shochiku Kinema Gomei-sha and opened a studio in Kamata, Tokyo.
Smartphone Game 'Project Sekai' Receives Anime Movie in January 2025. Advertising company CyberAgent announced on Monday an anime movie for the Project Sekai Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku smartphone game, titled Project Sekai Movie: Kowareta Sekai to Utaenai Miku (Colorful Stage! The Movie: A Miku Who Can't Sing), revealing the main cast ...
Shochiku Studio Co., Ltd. (株式会社松竹撮影所, Kabushiki gaisha Shōchiku Satsueijo) is a Japanese film and production studio company of Shochiku Group, which has been producing movies and dramas for roughly a century, [1] being the second-oldest motion picture company in Japan. The company has production bases in Kyoto and Tokyo since ...
An entertainment combine that prided itself as first and foremost a director’s studio, Shochiku had made the integration of antithetical approaches to filmmaking a company policy ever since the foundation of its Kamata studio and cinematic training school in 1924. The house specialty—a type of social realism called shomen-geki (tales of the ...
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Apr 10, 2020 · Founded by brothers Takejiro Otani and Matsujiro Shirai in 1895 to manage kabuki theaters (which it still does), the company launched a film subsidiary, Shochiku Kinema Gomei-sha, in 1920.
