Shochiku

Shochiku Company Limited (松竹株式会社,   Shōchiku Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese film studio and production company. It is headquartered in Tsukiji, Chuo, Tokyo. Among many other films, Shochiku has created a number of kaiju films such as The X from Outer Space and Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit. Shochiku also distributed the Kadokawa-produced film Gamera: The Brave.

Selected productions

1930s

• Japanese King Kong (1933)

1960s

• The X from Outer Space (1967)

• Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
• The Living Skeleton (1968)

• Genocide (1968)

1980s

• Magnitude 7.9 (1980)

1990s

• Giant Monsters Appear in Tokyo (1998)

2000s

• The Great Yokai War (2005)
• Big Man Japan (2007)
• Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit (2008)

Selected distributions

1970s

• The Mighty Peking Man (1977) - Japanese distributer

2000s

• Gamera the Brave (2006) - Japanese distributer

See also

• Nikkatsu Corporation
• Toho
• Kadokawa (formerly Daiei)
• Shintoho

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