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Toei Company, Ltd.

Toei Company, Ltd
Native name
東映株式会社
Public corporation
Traded as :
Industry Film and Television
Founded October 1, 1950; 66 years ago (1950-10-01)
(as Tokyo Film Distribution)
Headquarters 3-2-17 Ginza, Chūō, Tokyo 104-8108, Japan
Area served
Japan
Key people
Yusuke Okada, President & CEO
Products Motion pictures, publicity materials
Services Film and TV distribution and marketing
Revenue ¥ 66,300,000,000
(as of March 2006)
Number of employees
311
(as of March 31, 2006)
Subsidiaries Toei Digital Lab
Toei Labo Tech
Toei Language Tech Center
Toei Animation
Toei Television Production
Toei Video
Toei Satellite Broadcasting
Toei Agency
Cloverway Inc.
Website www.toei.co.jp

Toei Company, Ltd. (東映株式会社 Tōei Kabushiki-gaisha?) (pronounced toe ay) is a Japanese film, television production, and distribution corporation. Based in Tokyo, Toei owns and operates thirty-four movie theaters across Japan, studios at Tokyo and Kyoto; and is a shareholder in several television companies. It is notable for anime, live action dramas known as tokusatsu which use special visual effects, and historical dramas (jidaigeki).

The name "Toei" is derived from the company's former name "kyō Eiga Haikyū" (画配給?, Tokyo Film Distribution Company).

Tokyo-Yokohama Films (東横映画 Tō-Yoko Eiga?), incorporated 1938, had erected its facilities immediately east of the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line; they managed the Tōkyū Shibuya Yokohama studio system prior to V-J Day. From 1945 through the Toei merger, Tokyo-Yokohama Films leased from the Daiei Motion Picture Company a second studio in Kyoto. Through the merger, they gained the combined talents and experience of actors Chiezō Kataoka, Utaemon Ichikawa, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Ryūtarō Ōtomo, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Chiyonosuke Azuma, Shirunosuke Toshin, Hashizo Okawa and Satomi Oka.


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