Shochiku Co., Ltd.
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Shochiku HQ in Tokyo
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Native name
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松竹株式会社 |
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| Industry | Entertainment (Movie) |
| Founded | 1895 (in Tokyo, Japan as a kabuki production company) |
| Founders | Takejirō Ōtani () and Matsujirō Shirai () |
| Headquarters | Tsukiji 4-1-1, Chūō, Tokyo, Japan |
| Revenue | 8.8 billion Yen (2014) |
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Number of employees
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1227 (2014) |
| Subsidiaries | Shochiku Broadcasting Co., Ltd. |
| Website | www |
Shochiku Company Limited (松竹株式会社? Shōchiku Kabushiki gaisha) (: ) is a Japanese movie studio and production company for kabuki. It also produces and distributes anime films. Its best remembered directors include Yasujirō Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Keisuke Kinoshita and Yōji Yamada. Shochiku has also produced films by highly regarded independent and "loner" directors such as Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Akira Kurosawa and Taiwanese New Wave director Hou Hsiao-hsien.
The company was founded in 1895, which makes it the oldest company in Japan involved in film production. Founded by the brothers Takejirō Ōtani (大谷竹次郎) and Matsujirō Shirai (白井松次郎), it was originally a kabuki production company, and was named “Matsutake” in 1902 after the combined kunyomi reading of the kanji take (bamboo) and matsu (pine) from their names, reflecting the traditional three symbols of happiness, bamboo, pine, and plum. The name was changed in 1937 to the onyomi reading of Shōchiku.
Shochiku grew quickly, expanding its business to many other Japanese live theatric styles, including Noh and Bunraku, established a near monopoly due to its ownership of theaters, as well as kabuki and shimpa drama troupes.
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