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Toho International currently manages the licensing, marketing, and distribution of Toho's movies and other products and are headquartered in Los Angeles. On October 1, 2023, Toho International became also owned by a newly founded subsidiary of Toho, known as Toho Global.
List of Toho films. Toho 's original opening logo. This is a list of films produced by and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. and films by its predecessors (such as J.O. Studios) and subsidiaries (such as Toho Studios ). 1930s. 1940s. 1950s. 1960s. 1970s. 1980s. 1990s. 2000s. 2010s. 2020s. Upcoming films. References. ^ a b Galbraith, Stuart (1994).
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Toho Co., Ltd. is one of the top Japanese filmmakers and one of the oldest in that country. Known worldwide for unleashing Godzilla in 1954, Toho has grown steadily to become a nearly US$1 billion international entertainment company.
Toho Co., Ltd. is a Japanese entertainment company primarily engaged in the production and distribution of films and the production and exhibition of stage plays. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group.
- Founding, 1932
- Calling All Monsters, 1954
- The Case of The Disappearing Market, 1960-96
- The Death of Godzilla, 1995
- Market Changes and The Resurrection of Godzilla, 1997
- Further Reading
Toho was founded in 1932. From the start, it faced serious competition in the entertainment industry, notably Shochiku Company Ltd., Japan’s oldest cinema company, founded in 1895 to promote Kabuki theater. Undeterred, Toho wasted little time before producing some of Japan’s top films. In 1954, the late Akira Kurosawa directed smash hit Seven Samur...
Toho made another huge mark on the world when a giant prehistoric underwater lizard made his first appearance terrorizing Tokyo in 1954 in a Japanese movie called Gojira. Two years later, Godzilla —King of the Monsters appeared in the United States with new footage and featuring Raymond Burr (who went on to fame as detective Perry Mason). It was on...
Toho continued attracting talent into the 1980s. The late director Juzo Itami debuted in 1984 with The Funeral, and filmed nine other movies—almost all starring his wife, Nobuko Miyamoto—including Tampopo (1985), A Taxing Woman (1987), and The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion(1992). The number of movie screens in Japan dwindled over the period from...
In 1995 Toho made one last domestic Godzilla film, Godzilla vs. Destroyer, killing off the monster. Speculation abounded about whether this was truly the end of the great lizard, a media fascination surpassed only by the death of Superman in the same decade. Toho capped 1996 with US$953.8 million in total revenue and US$5.4 million net income.
In 1997 television networks and book publishers moved visibly into movie production. Mononoke Hime {Princess Mononoke) was produced by Studio Ghibli Co.—one of two film production companies affiliated with Tokuma Shoten (Publishing) Co. (the other being Daiei Co.). Directed by one of Japan’s best-loved animated filmmakers, Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighb...
Bailey, James, “Toho: No. 1 Japanese Distrib.,” Variety, May 13, 1981, p. 255. Darlin, Damon, “Godzilla vs. Kiamonster,” Forbes, July 18, 1994, p. 18. Dawkins, William, and Alice Rawsthorn, “Japanese Groups to Invest Up to ¥13BN in Paramount,” Financial Times, May 14,1996, p. 28. Eisenstodt, Gale, “A Cozy Japanese Near Monopoly,” Forbes, September ...
TOHO Studios Co., Ltd. (Japanese: TOHOスタジオ株式会社, Hepburn: Tōhō Sutajio kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese film production company that is a subsidiary of Toho Co., Ltd. One of the most successful films produced by Toho Studio is the live-action film Godzilla Minus One (2023) which generated more than $50 million at the global box ...
Toho Company, Ltd. (東宝株式会社. Tōhō Kabushiki-Kaisha) is a Japanese film studio. It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group.
