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	Japanese Titan
		Shochiku, one of the most venerable names in the Japanese entertainment world, traces its roots to the traditional performance-art form, and grew into a motion picture production giant, financing and distributing the work of such esteemed directors as Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Kenju Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Shimizu, Nagisa Oshima, Yoji Yamada and Takeshi Kitano.
		Shochiku has also kept pace with the modern movie exhibition world, establishing a circuit that now numbers 37 locations with 184 screens in both major cities and suburban areas, along with a separately branded 13-theatre, 124-screen multiplex chain called Movix.
		Shochiku was the first domestic exhibitor to open a multiplex, in 1997.
	www.filmjournal.com /filmjournal/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000838603 (1071 words)

	Ozu and Everydayness
		Shochiku was originally known for producing traditional popular theatre, primarily kabuki; the company first entered film production in 1920.
		When he entered Shochiku as an apprentice at nearly that, after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, Atsuta Yuharu was assigned, just as he had hoped, to the cinematographic department.
		Mohara, to whom Atsuta of the Ozu crew was originally attached, was one of the first generation of cinematographers trained at the Shochiku Kamata studio, and as such, in a position to have experienced the rivalry between the two competing cinematographic styles of Hollywood and Nikkatsu influence.
	www.willamette.edu /~rloftus/jfilm/ozunotes.html (3192 words)

	Sake-Drenched Postcards - Shochiku Adds Animation
		Shochiku, which has animation experience with the “Gundam” robots and “Ultraman,” will now have the increased flexibility needed to commission a larger selection of features and provide unique marketing options.
		While skeptics may scratch their heads at Shochiku’s old-fashioned kabuki pedigree, the 115-year old company, known in recent years primarily for distributing live-action films (“The Twilight Samurai,” for example), sees its diversity as an advantage.
		Establishing an in-house animation studio similar to that of its rival Toei is not in Shochiku's immediate plans.
	www.bigempire.com /sake/shochiku_animation.html (772 words)

	Japan's largest multiplex planned for Osaka
		Japan's top three entertainment conglomerates -- Shochiku, Toho and Toei -- are partnering to build, manage and operate a new multiplex theater in Osaka.
		The managing underwriter of the construction and management operation is Shochiku, which will cover 50% of the investment.
		Shochiku is Japan's oldest exhibitor and has more than 160 screens in operation.
	www.amusementbusiness.com /amusementbusiness/industrynews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000729722 (285 words)

	Berlinale \| Archive \| Annual Archives \| 2005 \| Press Releases - Berlinale Camera Awards 2005
		Shochiku, Japan’s oldest and most important film studio, is celebrating its 110th anniversary this year.
		By honouring Shochiku, the Berlin International Film Festival is awarding the Berlinale Camera for the first time to an institution.
		Shochiku Studios will be awarded the Berlinale Camera on February 16 at 9:30 PM in the Filmpalast.
	www.berlinale.de /en_1/archiv/jahresarchive/2005/08_pressemitteilungen_2005/08_Pressemitteilungen_2005-Detail_2242.html (488 words)

	Tokyo on the Hudson - New York Times
		Shochiku, founded in 1895 as a company that produced touring Kabuki shows, and Nikkatsu, born in 1912 from a cartel of independent studios, were the two production houses that dominated early Japanese cinema, and both are still in business today.
		Shochiku's leading director was Ozu, whose contemplative family dramas came, in the 50's and 60's, to represent a "Japaneseness" that is still valued by the Japanese.
		Richie demonstrates, the Shochiku directors were profoundly influenced by American movies, with their creative editing techniques and linear, suspense-driven plots.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/09/04/movies/04kehr.html?ex=1283486400&en=8f5ee7b7342c5dc5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (853 words)

	Mikio Naruse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mikio Naruse was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1905.
		For a number of years he worked at Shochiku under Shido Kiro as a property manager and then as an assistant director.
		In 1933, he quit Shochiku, and began working for Photo-Chemical Laboratories (later known as Toho).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mikio_Naruse (1029 words)

	Film Society of Lincoln Center
		By the early 30s Shochiku had established itself as the home of the shomin-geki, tales of everyday life most often set among the working or middle classes.
		After the war Shochiku would produce some of the key works of what would become known as the Japanese New Wave from such figures as Nagisa Oshima, Masahiro Shinoda and Kiju Yoshida, revolutionizing the visual style and subject matter of Japanese and, eventually, Asian cinema.
		Shochiku actually began as a theatrical production company, and it has been continuously involved in theater ever since.
	www.filmlinc.com /wrt/programs/shochiku.htm (1922 words)

	village voice > film > 'The Beauty of the Everyday: Japan's Shochiku Company at 110' by Elliott Stein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Shochiku was founded as a theatrical producer specializing in Kabuki troupes.
		Although Shochiku prided itself as a director's studio, there were two towering metteurs en scéne who would not concur in the evaluation.
		The film is uneven to the point of incoherence, but it's hardly the director's fault—Shochiku cut The Idiot's running time nearly in half prior to its release, without his participation, ruining it.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0537,nyff2,67764,20.html (569 words)

	The Paramount Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Chikamatsu-za troupe of Japan's revered Shochiku GRAND KABUKI presents the refined kamigata style of Kabuki theatre traditional to the Kansai area, a style with traditions going back three centuries.
		The U.S. Tour of the Shochiku GRAND KABUKI Chikamatsu-za is presented by The Boeing Company and is sponsored by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Toray Industries, Inc., ANA and United.
		Shochiku Grand Kabuki, Chikamatsu-za is produced by Shochiku Company Ltd. and Arrow Promotion Company, Ltd. The U.S. Tour is produced by One Reel and co-produced in Seattle by One Reel and Seattle Theatre Group.
	www.theparamount.com /artists/artist.asp?key=100 (395 words)

	Kiyohiko Ushihara's Shingun (Marching On) by William M. Drew
		Kiyohiko Ushihara's 1930 silent film, Shingun or Marching On, released in the 1990s on VHS tape by the original producing company, Shochiku, is a rare example of a truly large-scale production from Japan's silent cinema and remains a powerful, engrossing film.
		He gained valuable experience at Shochiku by writing the script for Minoru Murata's Souls on the Road (1921), generally considered to be the first great Japanese film, and was soon promoted by the studio to be a director in his own right.
		After leaving Shochiku, Ushihara continued to work at other studios, remaining a leading director of Japanese cinema until 1949.
	www.gildasattic.com /shingun.html (2469 words)

	Sake-Drenched Postcards - Creative Funding for Japanese Films
		Share sales for the project began last December, fresh on the heels of Kadokawa Herald Pictures' establishment of the "Japan Film Fund" - a pool of money collected from a variety of investors to fund Kadokawa's bigger-budgeted films.
		For risk takers, there was the choice of placing 40% of equity in the film's performance with the remainder entering a bond-like guarantee.
		Shochiku, meanwhile, already has plans to sell shares in two additional upcoming movies.
	www.bigempire.com /sake/film_fund.html (938 words)

	Shochiku Grand Kabuki Review from Ballet.co
		The Hindu ideal of the enlightened spectator or sahrdaya, describes the artistic experience as arising from the the artist and being completed heart of the sahrdaya.
		The souvenir program states the Shochiku Company has toured Kabuki abroad 52 times, appearing first in the United States in 1960, this tour marking its 17th US visit.
		More mundanely, the Shochiku company owns the Kabuki costumes which are rented to the actors, but according to Yoko Tahara, long-time Japanese artistic connoisseur, it also was one of Japan’s earliest motion picture companies.
	www.ballet.co.uk /magazines/yr_05/jul05/rr_rev_shochiku_0605.htm (1543 words)

	Variety.com - Shochiku sharpens 'Blade' for U.K., U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		BERLIN -- Japanese studio Shochiku has sold Yoji Yamada's samurai drama "The Hidden Blade" -- which unspools in competition today-- to a slew of territories, including Tartan Films for the U.S. and U.K. The martial-arts costumer, which follows Yamada's 2004 Oscar-nominated "Twilight Samurai," also went to EMS for Germany, CTV Intl.
		Shochiku is being honored this year with the Berlinale's Camera Award, celebrating the Japanese conglomconglom's 110th anniversary.
	www.variety.com /av_result.asp?articleid=VR1117917965 (422 words)

	Yoshitaka Asama
		Branch School Diary - (Writer (adaptation) / / Released / Shochiku Company, Ltd.)
		Tsubaki-hime - (Director / / Released / Shochiku Company, Ltd.)
		Tsubaki-hime - (Screenplay / / Released / Shochiku Company, Ltd.)
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/id/1161312 (209 words)

	Mikio Naruse (1905-1969)
		Shochiku had just been formed and quickly became a dominant force in the Japanese cinema following the release in 1921 of Minoru Murata’s Rojo no Reikon (Souls on the Road), which revolutionized Japanese cinema with its narrative techniques and depiction of the lives of ordinary people.
		Naruse directed 22 silent films for Shochiku’s Kamata studio in Tokyo from 1930 to 1934, a richly creative period when he developed his basic themes in works that resonated with Japanese audiences and critics.
		Although a number of his earliest films were comedies, they included serious depictions of class differences and the struggles of the working and lower middle classes for economic survival.
	www.gildasattic.com /mnaruse.html (2616 words)

	SHOCHIKU Co.,Ltd.
		FUNimation Entertainment has acquired North American rights, including theatrical, DVD and broadcast, to the ninja actioner "Shinobi" from Shochiku.
		Shochiku plans to open a large-scale cinema complex in Tokyo's Shinjuku district in autumn, 2008.
		Other companies such as Toho and Toei also plan to build complexes in the city's central districts.
	www.shochikufilms.com (69 words)

	Navarre's FUNimation Entertainment Acquires Japanese Live Action Film 'Shinobi' From Shochiku Co., Ltd.
		FUNimation is one of the premiere specialty distributors in North America and the ideal distributor for this film." Set in 17th Century Japan, SHINOBI tells the story of two warring Ninja tribes, each with special fighting abilities and techniques.
		About Shochiku Founded in 1895, Shochiku functions as a highly-tuned vertically integrated entertainment entity, encompassing feature film and television production, theatrical distribution of Japanese & foreign motion pictures, worldwide sales, exhibition, DVD and home video distribution and the Kabuki Theater.
		Shochiku operates one of the most successful motion picture divisions in Japan.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/03-28-2006/0004328631&EDATE= (970 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Final Take > Printer Friendly
		At Shochiku she finds her work alternately thrilling and frustrating, and gradually hones her craft and falls in love with assistant director and aspiring screenwriter Kenjiro Shimada (Kiichi Nakai).
		Mild Spoiler When Shochiku's leading actress, Sumie Kawashima (Keiko Matsuzaka) suddenly elopes, Koharu is thrust like Ruby Keeler into the spotlight, making her starring debut in the company's big New Year release, a version of Floating Weeds.
		Common with Panorama's Shochiku titles, extras are limited to a director's biography and filmography (in both Chinese and English), both repeated in the CD-shaped booklet included with the disc.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=13633 (1095 words)

	AWN Headline News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Japan\'s oldest film studio, Shochiku Co., is launching an animation division, reports VARIETY.
		Shochiku is a vertically integrated entertainment company encompassing feature film and TV production, theatrical distribution of Japanese and foreign films, worldwide sales, exhibition, DVD and home video distribution and the kabuki theater.
		Shochiku will unveil its first animated productions in the next few months and hopes to release its first film in 2005.
	news.awn.com /index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=12200 (459 words)

	Honor Bound by Hawaii Shochiku Orchestra - BooklinesHawaii.com - Hawaii Music
		It includes 21 original hits recorded in Hawaii (circa 1947 through the 1950s) by the sons and daughters of migrant workers — Americans of Okinawan and Japanese ancestry born and raised in the Islands.
		Shochiku was considered the top music ensemble — it was the only orchestra of the period to introduce original compositions, causing a sensation in the Islands; some of them went on to became hits in Japan and Japanese enclaves throughout the world — an extraordinary feat at the time.
		The story behind the Hawaii Shochiku Orchestra is one of deep bonds of friendship, kindness, natural talent, assimilation, upstanding working-class values, cultural pride, loyalty and innovation.
	www.booklineshawaii.com /music/mvh/510023.html (401 words)

	ReelTalk Movie Reviews
		Not so widely known here but one of filmdom’s most important survival stories, Shochiku Company started up the year Japan gained Taiwan/Formosa in settlement of the 1894-95 First Sino-Japanese War.
		Originally involved in producing Kabuki theater performances for the road, the company early realized the potential for what James Agee was later to categorize “the grandest for a major popular art since Shakespeare’s time,” i.e., cinema.
		In spite of political, social and economic shifts, however, its product has been of a generally high caliber, furnishes an essential capsule of Japanese and world cinema, and is of that enduring interest that is seasoned by variety.
	www.reeltalkreviews.com /browse/viewitem.asp?Type=feature&ID=200 (1182 words)

	ozuyasujiro.com - news
		Shochiku Co. is planning various projects in Japan and throughout the rest of the world from 12th Dec 2002 until 12th Dec 2003.
		Shochiku Executives made an introductory speech and explained the project: "Ozu Yasujiro is our national treasure, and we will provide the younger generations both at home and abroad with the opportunity to appreciate his works.
		Mr Yamanouchi produced all Ozu films made by Shochiku with Early Spring as the first one, and was on very intimate terms with him personally: "Ozu films are still brilliant as ever.
	www.ozuyasujiro.com /oldnews.htm (2276 words)

	Film Society of Lincoln Center
		An entertainment combine that prided itself as first and foremost a director’s studio, Shochiku had made the integration of antithetical approaches to filmmaking a company policy ever since the foundation of its Kamata studio and cinematic training school in 1924.
		There had to be parameters within which all that absorption of alien influence could function properly, however, and it fell to Shochiku’s young studio head, Shiro Kido—who would become Ozu’s lifelong supporter—to lay down the law.
		“We at Shochiku prefer to look at life in a warm and hopeful way,” Kido sermonized to both his audiences and his stable of young directors, which included formative masters like Heinosuke Gosho and Yasujiro Shimazu, further stipulating that “to inspire despair in our viewers would be unforgivable.
	www.filmlinc.com /fcm/so05/shochikufeature1.htm (537 words)

	Variety.com - Animated Shochiku (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Shochiku exec Masaki Koga said firm will begin handling world sales of its own animated TV productions.
		Move follows similar development at rival Japanese major Toei and is a sign of further restructuring in the Janimation sector, which has cast an envious eye at the market valuations accorded to PixarPixar and DreamWorks AnimationDreamWorks Animation.
		Shochiku's first two shows to go under the new sales arm are claymation series "Norabbits' Minutes" and action series "Tokko." Targeted at kids auds, four episodes of "Norabbits" will also be given a theatrical release at Shochiku theaters starting this month.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117938179?categoryid=1442&cs=1 (426 words)

	Midnight Eye feature: Hiroshi Shimizu - Silent Master of the Japanese Ethos
		The year 2003, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yasujiro Ozu, also marked the centenary of another great director who, like Ozu, worked for much of his career at the Shochiku studios creating films that vividly expressed the spirit of his culture.
		There is poignancy in the contrast between the traditional agrarian way of life in old Japan with all its serene beauty and the exciting, fast-paced but ultimately corrupting world of modern urban civilization.
		Soon after leaving college, Shimizu joined the newly-formed Shochiku studio in Tokyo as an assistant director and in 1924, at the age of 21, began his long directorial career.
	www.midnighteye.com /features/hiroshi_shimizu.shtml (11832 words)

	Shochiku gets animated forfilm, TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The announcement was made Friday by Shochiku general manager of filmed entertainment Ichiro Seki, who will oversee the new division.
		Commissioning top animators from Japan's leading animation houses, the new division is set to produce about five film and television projects annually, with the first animated feature expected to be ready for release next year.
		In its first year of operation, Shochiku expects the division to eclipse ¥5 billion ($45 million) in revenue, with that figure projected to increase as the company begins to acquire rights to popular characters and properties.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/international/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000673201 (168 words)

	Shochiku Co., Ltd. information and related industry information from Hoover's
		Launched as a Kabuki production company in 1902, Japanese entertainment icon Shochiku is one of the top film producers in the country.
		Shochiku Aruze Communications, Shochiku's joint venture with gaming machine maker Aruze, specializes in entertainment marketing services.
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	www.hoovers.com /shochiku/--ID__51304--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml (391 words)

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