Toho-Towa / Towa Pictures

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Toho-Towa Company, Limited (東宝東和株式会社,   Tōhō Tōwa Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese film distribution company and subsidiary of Toho Co., Ltd. Founded in 1928, the company presently serves as Toho's foreign distribution arm, bringing Hollywood films to Japanese theaters. As of 2007, Toho-Towa are the primary Japanese distributor for Universal Pictures. Towa Pictures (東和ピクチャーズ,   Tōwa Pikuchāzu), a subsidiary company established in 2016, instead handle Japanese distribution of Paramount Pictures' films.[1] Over the years, their catalogue has included several giant monster films.

Selected distributions

1970s

2010s

2020s

Trivia

  • According to the company's website, the "Towa" in Toho-Towa's name, composed of the kanji for "east" (東,   higashi) and "peace" (和,   wa), was chosen in order to reflect its founders' "ideals of harmony between East and West."[1]

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References

This is a list of references for Toho-Towa. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Company Profile". tohotowa.co.jp. Retrieved 9 February 2021.

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