Toho
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Toho Company, Limited[note 2] (東宝株式会社 Tōhō Kabushiki Gaisha), also stylized as TOHO, is a major Japanese film studio. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. In the West, it is best known as the producer of many kaiju and tokusatsu movies, the films of Akira Kurosawa, and the anime films of Studio Ghibli, as well as the Pokémon movies.
The company's most famous creation, Godzilla, was co-created by producer Tomoyuki Tanaka.
History
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Toho was founded by the Hankyu Railway in 1932 as the Tokyo-Takarazuka Theater Company. It managed much of the kabuki in Tokyo and, among other properties, the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater and the Imperial Garden Theater in Tokyo; Toho and Shochiku enjoyed a duopoly over theaters in Tokyo for many years.
After several successful film exports to the United States during the 1950s, Toho opened the La Brea Theatre in Los Angeles to show its own films without selling to a distributor. It was known as the Toho Theatre from the late 1960s until the 1970s.[1] Toho also had a theater in San Francisco and opened a theater in New York in 1963.[2]
An offshoot of Toho called Shintoho was established in 1947 due to labor turmoil at Toho. The studio went on to produce a slew of films during its short lifespan before it declared bankruptcy in 1961.[3]
Toho has contributed to the production of some American films, including Sam Raimi's film A Simple Plan (1998).
Selected filmography
Films
Production company
- See also: TOHO Studios, Toho Eizo Bijutsu.
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Financier
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Distributor only
- See also: TOHO Visual Entertainment.
Note that all of the above films were also distributed in Japan by Toho or its Products & Licensing Department, with the exceptions of Ramayana and the direct-to-video Ultra Star God productions.
Miscellaneous
- Dream Challenge: Godzilla Appears in Sukagawa (2019) - Copyright
- Godzilla vs. the Tigers (2020) - Cooperation
- S.J.H.U. Project: Shin Universe Robo commercial (2023) - Cooperation
- Godzilla: Attack on Tokyo (2024) - Planning and supervision
- Ryosangata Riko: A Plastic Model Girl's Final Life Assembly Story (TV 2024) - Special thanks [episodes 7–8; episode 7 with the JAKDF 3rd Division]
- TOKYO GODZILLAs (2024) - Planning and supervision
Canceled films
- Main article: Category:Unmade films.
Series
Financier only
- See also: Toho Planning.
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Miscellaneous
- Godzilla TV (TV 1999–2000) - Supervision [with Toho Pictures]
- Godziburst (web 2025-) - Supervision
Selected staff
Producers
- Akira Kurosawa
- Eiji Tsuburaya
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Jun Fukuda
- Shogo Tomiyama
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Yoshinari Shimatani
Directors
- Akira Kurosawa
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Ishiro Honda
- Jun Fukuda
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Masaaki Tezuka
- Nobuhiko Obayasaki
- Shinji Higuchi
- Shusuke Kaneko
- Takao Okawara
- Toshiro Mifune
Writers
- Akira Kurosawa
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Ikuma Dam
- Ishiro Honda
- Jun Fukuda
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Masaaki Tezuka
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Seishi Yokomizo
- Shogo Tomiyama
- Shusuke Kaneko
- Takao Okawara
- Tomoyuki Tanaka
- Wataru Mimura
Composers
- Akira Ifukube
- Fumio Hayasaka
- Ikuma Dan
- Isao Tomita
- Joe Hisaishi
- Kiyoko Ogino
- Kow Otani
- Kunio Miyauchi
- Masamichi Amano
- Masaru Sato
- Michiru Oshima
- Reijiro Koroku
- Riichiro Manabe
- Shiro Sagisu
- Takayuki Hattori
- Toru Takemitsu
- Toshiyuki Watanabe
- Yasuharu Takanashi
Special effects crew
- Eiji Tsuburaya
- Ishiro Honda
- Kenji Suzuki
- Koichi Kawakita
- Masaaki Tezuka
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
- Shinji Higuchi
- Takao Okawara
- Teruyoshi Nakano
Musical artists
- Asami Abe
- Masatoh Eve
- U-Ya Asaoka
Editors
- Akira Kurosawa
- Nobuhiko Obayashi
Cinematographers
Sound department
- Ichiro Minawa
- Sadamasa Nishimoto
- Hideyo Sasaki
- Yuji Tan
- Hiromi Ogawa
- Akihiko Okase
- Naoko Asari
- Tatsuhiko Sasaki
- Yoichi Nishimura
- Kimiko Asakura
- Haru Yamada
- Toru Noguchi
- Satoshi Motoyama
Gallery
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Toho logo (1.37:1, ca. 1950) -
Toho logo (1.37:1, ca. 1956) -
Tohoscope logo (2.35:1, ca. 1957) -
Tohoscope logo (2.35:1, ca. 1957), black & white variant -
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Toho logo (2.35:1, ca. 1965) -
Toho logo (1.85:1) -
Toho logo (1.85:1, ca. 1993) -
Toho logo (2.35:1) -
Modern Toho logo (2.35:1) -
Shinjuku Toho Building in Tokyo -
Toho's Godzilla mural, finished in mid-2014 -
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Toho lawyers Aaron Moss and Charles Shephard -
Toho building in Nagoya -
The original Toho logo being filmed -
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Guillermo del Toro at Toho Studios -
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See also
External links
- Official Toho homepage.
- Toho Official Library.
- Official Twitter page (@toho_movie).
- Second Twitter page (@toho_official).
- Official Toho Entertainment Twitter page
- Official Toho Animation Twitter page
- Offcial Toho Animation Store Twitter page
- Official YouTube channel.
- Official Toho Animation YouTube channel
- Toho on Tokupedia.
- Toho Kingdom (fan site).
Notes
- ↑ While Toho is officially said to have been founded on August 12, 1932, this is in fact the date on which its predecessor company Tokyo-Takarazuka Theater Co., Ltd. was founded. With the funding of Photo Chemical Laboratories Co., Ltd., P.C.L. Film Production Co., Ltd., J.O. Studios, and Toho Film Distribution Co., Ltd., on August 26, 1937, Toho Eiga Co., Ltd. was founded. On November 30, 1937, the aforementioned four companies were then consolidated into Toho Eiga., Ltd. On August 30, 1943, Tokyo-Takarazuka Theater Co., Ltd. and Toho Eiga Co., Ltd. merged. On December 10, 1943, the company's name was changed from Toho Eiga Co., Ltd. to simply Toho Co., Ltd.
- ↑ “Toho” is an acronym of Tokyo-Takarazuka comprising the kanji “to” (東) in Tokyo, and “ho,” an alternate reading of the kanji “takara” (宝) in Takarazuka.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Co-financed by Benedict Pictures Corporation.
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