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Toho Company, Limited (東宝株式会社,   Tōhō Kabushiki-Kaisha?, lit. Toho Co., Ltd.) is a 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, the Godzilla franchise, was created by Tomoyuki Tanaka.

It is one of Japan's four major film studios.

History[]

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]

The Shintoho Company was so named "New Toho" because it broke off from Toho.

TohoScope logo

The classic TohoScope logo, used for Toho's widescreen movies from 1957 to 1964, and once more in 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars

They have contributed to the production of some American films, including Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan.

Productions[]

1930s[]

1940s[]

  • Ramayana

1950s[]

1960s[]

1970s[]

1980s[]

1990s[]

2000s[]

​2010s[]

2020s[]

Cancelled films[]

Main article: List of unmade monster films.

Television[]

  • He of the Sun
  • Go! Godman
  • Warrior of Love Rainbowman
  • Zone Fighter
  • Assault! Human (co-created with Nippon Television)
  • Gimme Gimme Octopus
  • Go! Greenman (co-created with Nippon Television)
  • Submersion of Japan (TV series) (co-created with TBS TV)
  • Go! Ushiwaka Koujirou
  • Warrior of Light Diamond Eye (co-created with NET)
  • Flying Saucer War Bankid (co-created with Nippon Television)
  • Seishi Yokomizo Series (co-created with Daiei and Mifune Productions)
  • The Godzilla Power Hour (co-created with Hanna-Barbera)
  • Megaloman
  • Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
  • The Forbidden Mariko
  • Computer Police Cybercops
  • Adventure! Godzilland
  • Seven Star Fighting God Guyferd (co-created with Capcom)
  • Vampire Host
  • Godzilla Kingdom
  • Godzilla Island
  • Godzilla TV
  • Super Star God GranSazer
  • Phantom Star God Justirisers
  • Super Star Fleet Sazer-X
  • Kawaii! JeNny (co-created with Dream Planet Japan and Takara Tomy)

In more recent years and for a period, they have produced video games, including a series of games based on Godzilla.

Staff[]

Former[]

Producers[]

Directors[]

  • Akira Kurosawa
  • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Ishiro Honda
  • Jun Fukuda
  • Kinji Fukasaku
  • Masaaki Tezuka
  • Nobuhiko Obayasaki
  • Shinji Higuchi
  • Shusuke Kaneko
  • Takao Okawra
  • 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[]

Musical Artists[]

  • Asami Abe
  • Masatoh Eve
  • U-Ya Asaoka

Editors[]

  • Akira Kurosawa
  • Nobuhiko Obayashi

Cinematographers[]

Gallery[]

References[]

  1. [1]
  2. "Toho" Far East Film News December 25, 1963.

External links[]

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