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Founded in 1932, the Toho Co., Ltd. is basically responsible for the entirety of the tokusatsu genre by bringing us the King of the Monsters himself and other Kaiju movies.

They actually have a lot more to their catalog of films, including many much more down-to-earth stories, but that's what most people remember them for. That and Akira Kurosawa and Ishir⁠ō Honda.

They also acted as distributor or co-producer for Studio Ghibli and many other anime films you may have heard of, as well as many of the live action film adaptations of anime that crop up from time to time (Nana, Space Battleship Yamato, etc). Not only that, their subsidiaries Toho-Towa and Towa Pictures exclusively distributes everything released by Universal and Paramount to Japanese cinemas, respectively.note  Toho distributes through its own chain of cinemas, reaching every metropolitan area in Japan. They also provided production facilities and some actors for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice as well as the North Korean kaiju film Pulgasari.

Musical theatre fans may know Toho as the company behind many adaptations of foreign musicals, anime musicals, and original productions. Fun fact: Toho was founded by the late Takarazuka Revue founder IchizĹŤ Kobayashi as the Tokyo-Takarazuka Theater Company. note  Toho used to manage much of musical theatre in Tokyo, until Takarazuka Creative Arts rebuilt the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre and began using it as their second home for the Revue (five all-women theatre troupes). Today, Toho is behind a sizable percentage of mixed-gender Japanese musical theatre. note  Many former Takarazuka actresses have gone on to appear in Toho musicals.

Not to be confused with Touhou Project, a Bullet Hell Video Game series.


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     Films produced or distributed by Toho 

     Television shows (live-action and anime) produced by Toho (includes OVAs

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