Toei Company

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Toei Company, Limited (東映株式会社)
Type Public corporation
Traded as TYO: 9605
Industry Film and Television
Founded October 1, 1950
as Tokyo Film Distribution (700162000000000000062 years, 7002228000000000000228 days)
Headquarters Chūō-ku Ginza 3-chōme 2-ban 17-kou, 104-8108 Tokyo, JPN
Area served Japan
Key people Yusuke Okada, President & CEO
Products Motion pictures, publicity materials
Services Film and TV distribution and marketing
Revenue ¥ 66,300,000,000
(as of March 2006)
Employees 311
(as of March 31, 2006)
Subsidiaries Toei Digital Lab
Toei Labo Tech
Toei Language Tech Center
Toei Animation
Toei Television Production
Toei Video
Toei Satellite Broadcasting
Toei Agency
Website (日本語) Toei.co.jp

Toei Co., Ltd. (東映株式会社 Tōei Kabushiki-gaisha?) (pronounced toe ay) is a Japanese film, television production, and distribution corporation. Based in Tokyo, Toei owns and operates thirty-four movie theaters across Japan, studios at Tokyo and Kyoto; and is a shareholder in several television companies. It is notable for anime, live action dramas known as tokusatsu which use special visual effects, and historical dramas (jidaigeki).

The name "Toei" is derived from the company's former name "Tōkyō Eiga Haikyū" (Tokyo Film Distribution Company).

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History [edit]

Tokyo-Yokohama Films (東横映画 Tō-Yoko Eiga?), incorporated 1938, had previously erected its facilities immediately east of the Tokyu Tōkyō-Yokohama Line; they managed the Tōkyū Shibuya Yokohama studio system prior to V-J Day. From 1945 through the Toei merger, Tokyo-Yokohama Films leased from the Daiei Motion Picture Company a second studio in Kyoto. Through the merger, they gained the combined talents and experience of actors Chiezō Kataoka, Utaemon Ichikawa, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Ryūtarō Ōtomo, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Chiyonosuke Azuma, Shirunosuke Toshin, Hashizo Okawa and Satomi Oka.

On October 1, 1950, the Tokyo Film Distribution Company was incorporated; in 1951 the company purchased Ōizumi Films .

In 1956, Toei established an animation division, Toei Animation Company, Ltd. at the former Tokyo-Ōizumi animation studio, purchasing the assets of Japan Animated Films (originally founded in 1948).

Toei was a pioneer in the use of character transformation in live-action martial-arts dramas, a technique developed for the Kamen Rider, Devilman and Super Sentai series; the genre currently continues with Kamen Rider and Super Sentai.

List of films [edit]

Tokusatsu [edit]

See also [edit]

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