TOHO Studios
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TOHO Studios Co., Ltd. (TOHOスタジオ株式会社 is a subsidiary company and film production arm of Tōhō Sutajio Kabushiki Gaisha)Toho Co., Ltd. that is headquartered at Toho Studios in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. It was established in 1971 as Toho Pictures, Inc. (株式会社東宝映画, an extension of Toho's existing production division. The company merged with Toho Studios Service Co., Ltd. Kabushiki Gaisha Tōhō Eiga) (株式会社東宝スタジオサービス to form TOHO Studios on December 1, Kabushiki Gaisha Tōhō Sutajio Sābisu)2020. All of the Japanese Godzilla films released from 1984 onward were produced and financed by Toho Pictures, with its parent company Toho only providing distribution. The company was also responsible for a number of Toho's other horror and special effects offerings, some of which were co-produced with another of its subsidiaries, Toho Eizo. In 2016, Toho Pictures produced the first live-action Japanese Godzilla film in over a decade—Shin Godzilla—alongside Cine Bazar, though financing was instead handled by Toho themselves. The renamed TOHO Studios reunited with Cine Bazar for Toho, Tsuburaya Productions, and khara's 2022 film Shin Ultraman.
Selected filmography
Presenter
1970s
- Here Comes Golden Bat (1972)
- Horror of the Wolf (1973) [with Toho Eizo]
- Submersion of Japan (1973) [with Toho Eizo]
- Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) [with Toho Eizo]
- Conflagration (1975) [with Toho Eizo]
- The War in Space (1977) [with Toho Eizo]
- The Blue Stigma (1978)
1980s
- Magnitude 7.9 (1980)
- Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984) [with IO Corp.]
- The Return of Godzilla (1984)
- Princess from the Moon (1987) [with Fuji TV]
- Gunhed (1989) [with the Gunhed Production Committee]
- Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
1990s
- Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected (1991)
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)
- Godzilla vs. Mothra (1992)
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
- Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon (1994)
- Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla (1994)
- Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)
- Rebirth of Mothra (1996)
- Rebirth of Mothra 2 (1997)
- Rebirth of Mothra 3 (1998)
- Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)
2000s
- Godzilla vs. Megaguirus (2000)
- Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)
- Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)
- Godzilla: Tokyo SOS (2003)
- Godzilla Final Wars (2004)
Producer
Pre-2010s
- Gunhed (1989) [with Sunrise]
- Pyrokinesis (2000)
2010s
- As the Gods Will (2014) [with OLM]
- Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1 (2015)
- Attack on Titan: Signal to Strike Back (TV 2015)
- Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2 (2015)
- Shin Godzilla (2016) [with Cine Bazar]
2020s
- Shin Ultraman (2022) [with Cine Bazar]
- Blockbuster Monster Movie (2023) [working title; with ROBOT]
Gallery
Toho Pictures logo used for Rebirth of Mothra
Toho Pictures logo used for Rebirth of Mothra 3
"A Toho Pictures production in commemoration of Godzilla's 50th anniversary" logo from Godzilla Final Wars
"A Toho Pictures, Inc. and Toho Eizo Co., Ltd. co-production" logo from Horror of the Wolf
See also
External links
- Official TOHO Studios website
- The former Toho Pictures website (Japanese)
- The former Toho Pictures website (English)
- TOHO Studios on the Japanese Wikipedia
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