Toho International

Toho International, Inc. Type Licensing and film distribution company Status Active Lead by Koji Ueda (president) Founded July 23, 1953 (LA office) February 27, 1960 (NY office) Head- quarters 2029 Century Park East, Suite 1140 Los Angeles, California, USA 90067 Also known as International Toho Inc. Toho International Co., Ltd. Parent company Toho → TOHO Global (planned)

Toho International, Inc. (国際東宝株式会社,   Kokusai Tōhō Kabushiki Gaisha) is the American subsidiary of Toho Co., Ltd., headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since its founding in 1953, the company has been in charge of licensing and marketing Toho's films and other properties for release outside of Japan. In recent times, Toho International has begun pursuing an English-language social media presence for the Godzilla brand, launching official YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram accounts, as well as the website Godzilla.com and an Amazon merchandise store.

A new company, TOHO Global Inc. (TOHO Global 株式会社,   Tōhō Gurōbaru Kabushiki Gaisha), was established on July 20, 2023, and is planned to adopt Toho International from Toho Co. on October 1.

Locations

Toho International has previously operated offices at the following locations:

• 369 East 1st Street, Los Angeles, California, USA 90012
• 834 South La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA 90036
• 1501 Broadway, New York, New York, USA 10036
• 2-6-4 Ginza, Chuoku, Tokyo, Japan 104-0061
• 1-8-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, 100-0006
• 1-7-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan 100-0006

Selected film exports

Note: Years listed are of the films' original release and not necessarily of their first availability abroad.

Godzilla (1954) Invisible Man (1954) Godzilla Raids Again (1955) Half Human (1955) The Legend of the White Serpent (1956) Rodan (1956) Throne of Blood (1957) The Mysterians (1957) The H-Man (1958) Varan (1958) Monkey Sun (1959) The Three Treasures (1959) Battle in Outer Space (1959) The Secret of the Telegian (1960) The Human Vapor (1960) Mothra (1961) The Youth and His Amulet (1961) The Last War (1961) Gorath (1962) King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) Matango (1963) Samurai Pirate (1963) Atragon (1963)

Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) Dogora (1964) Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965) Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) The Adventures of Takla Makan (1966) The War of the Gargantuas (1966) Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) The Killing Bottle (1967) King Kong Escapes (1967) Son of Godzilla (1967) Destroy All Monsters (1968) Latitude Zero (1969) All Monsters Attack (1969) Space Amoeba (1970) Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972) Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973) Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974) Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) ESPY (1974) Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) The War in Space (1977)

Magnitude 7.9 (1980) Bye-Bye Jupiter (1984) The Return of Godzilla (1984) Princess from the Moon (1987) Gunhed (1989) Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) 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) 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) Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean (2005) Godzilla Minus One (2023)

GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO

GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO Languages English Status Active Launched December 29, 2020 Address https://youtube.com/c/GodzillaToho/

GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO is the official North American YouTube channel for the Godzilla franchise, operated by Toho International. Its first upload was the North American trailer for Godzilla vs. Kong on January 27, 2021. It has since posted the Japanese trailers for all 29 of the main Godzilla films, subtitled episodes of various Godzilla TV and web series which were previously only available in Japanese, the original web series Godzilla CHOMP hosted by the company's then-creative manager Chris Mowry, and miscellaneous content like collaboration announcements and product reviews.

Releases

The GODZILLA OFFICIAL by TOHO channel has made the following series available:

• I'm Home! Chibi Godzilla (web 2020-2021) - Both seasons, subtitled, from February 15 to August 2, 2021 [playlist]
• Godzilla Tales (web 2020) - Reposted from Nerdist channel in a rearranged order, from April 9 to August 13, 2021 [playlist]
• Godzilla (TV 1978-1979) - Both seasons, episodes split into three videos each, from August 9, 2021 to February 27, 2023 [playlist]
• Godziban (web 2019-) - First three seasons, subtitled, from August 20, 2021 to October 7, 2022 [playlist]
• Godzilla CHOMP (web 2021-2022) - Original series, from November 10, 2021 to February 16, 2022 [playlist]
• Godzilla Island (TV 1997-1998) - First season, subtitled, from March 7, 2023 onward [playlist]
• Chibi Godzilla Raids Again (TV 2023) - Full series, subtitled, from April 11 to July 3, 2023 [playlist]

References

This is a list of references for Toho International. 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]

Bibliography

• Lees, J.D. (March–April 2001). "Keeper of the Radioactive Flame". G-FAN. No. 50. Daikaiju Enterprises.
• Sakamoto, Osamu; Yamaki, Hisako, eds. (October 1967). "Business Directory". UniJapan Film Quarterly. Vol. 10 no. 4. Association for the Diffusion of Japanese Films Abroad.
• Sakamoto, Osamu, ed. (April 1970). "Business Directory". UniJapan Film Quarterly. Vol. 13 no. 2. Association for the Diffusion of Japanese Films Abroad.

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