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Shochiku is considered the oldest company in Japan involved in present-day film production, but Nikkatsu began earlier as a pure film studio in 1912. Founded by the brothers Takejirō Ōtani (大谷竹次郎) and Matsujirō Shirai (白井松次郎), it was named “Matsutake” in 1902 after the combined kunyomi reading of the kanji take ...
About Shochiku. About Shochiku. Born as twins, Ōtani Takejirō and Shirai Matsujirō were attracted to kabuki as children. After Ōtani Takejirō became a promoter of the Shinkyōgoku Sakaiza Theatre in 1895, the two founded the Shochiku General Partnership Company in 1902. Merging and acquiring theatres all over Japan, and developing various ...
July Program at the Osaka Shochikuza Theatre. Daily: Jul 03 (Wed) - Jul 26 (Fri), 2024. Matinee: 11:00 AM. Evening Show: 4:00 PM. *No performances on the 10th (Wed) and the 18th (Thu). On sale: from Jun 07 (Fri), 2024 10:00 AM (JST) Book Ticket. Information. About "Try Kabuki Ticket" *Tickets for dates shown as "Sold Out" or for other preferred ...
In so many ways, Ozu and Shochiku—which celebrates its 110th anniversary this year—were made for each other. 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.
Mar 16, 2023 · Shochiku’s profound establishment in the kabuki realm has made it a household name, so much so that snack makers would make exclusive confectionery for the kabuki theatres. To get your hands on kabuki goods and merchandise in Tokyo, you can visit either of the souvenir shops located within Kabukiza or Shinbashi Enbujo Theatre in Ginza.
Shochiku produces, promotes, and distributes live-action, animation, and special effects films. They provide foreign films, video content development, operation of theatres and cinema complexes, theatre programming, satellite broadcasting, general broadcasting, and the planning and management of video-related events.
Jun 10, 2022 · Film series. Jun 10–Jul 9, 2022. Founded in 1920 by a pair of peanut vendors who hoped to achieve the commercial success of Hollywood, the Shochiku film studio adopted Western methods of filmmaking (a training institute, a star system, a studio campus) and made Western techniques of storytelling (closeups, flashbacks, panning shots, dissolves, montage editing) into something distinctively Japanese. Thanks to the generosity of Shochiku, together with the National Film Archive of Japan and ...
