![[A-ONE] TOHO EUROBEAT VOL. 4 - FINAL BREATH](http://web.archive.org./web/20110901150447im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/XoH30u1Q3CM/0.jpg "[A-ONE] TOHO EUROBEAT VOL. 4 - FINAL BREATH")
![[A-ONE] TOHO EUROBEAT VOL4~Bloody Night (Alice Margatroid) Theme](http://web.archive.org./web/20110901150447im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BP867uExVtk/0.jpg "[A-ONE] TOHO EUROBEAT VOL4~Bloody Night (Alice Margatroid) Theme")
Gaddafi's family flees to Algeria
The Times of India
Hurricane Irene among the costliest catastrophes in the U.S.
Seattle Times
The New Shock Corporations and Shock Workers
WorldNews.com
In the wake of Irene, The Weather Channel turns to Katia and Lee
The Examiner
Elections in Libya Should be Deferred
Middle East Online
}} is a Japanese film, theater production, and distribution company. It is headquartered in Yūrakuchō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Outside Japan, it is best known as the producer and distributor of many kaiju (monster) and tokusatsu (special effects) movies, the Chouseishin tokusatsu superhero TV franchise, the films of Akira Kurosawa, and the anime films of Studio Ghibli. Its most famous and worldwide creation is Godzilla, known as the King of the Monsters. It has also been involved in the production of numerous anime titles. Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Mechagodzilla, and Rodan are described as being Toho's Big Five due to the monsters' numerous appearances in all three eras of the franchise, as well as spin-offs. Its subdivisions are Toho Pictures Incorporated, Toho International Company Limited, Toho E. B. Company Limited, Toho Music Corporation & Toho Costume Comapay Limited. The company is the largest shareholder (7.96%) of Fuji Media Holdings Inc.
After several successful film exports to the United States during the 1950s through Henry G. Saperstein, Toho opened the La Brea Theatre in Los Angeles to show its own films without selling to a distributor. It was known as the Toho Theatre from the late 1960s until the 1970s. Toho also had a theater in San Francisco and opened a theater in New York in 1963.
The Shintoho Company, which existed until 1964, was named New Toho because it broke off from the original Toho Company.
The company has contributed to the production of some American films, including Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan.
In more recent years and for a period, they have produced video games. One of their first video games was the 1990 NES game titled Circus Caper. Later, they followed with a series of games based on Godzilla and a 1992 game called Serizawa Nobuo no Birdy Try. It also published games such as Super Aleste. They even worked with Bandai on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, released in Japan in 1988 and in North America in 1989.
* Category:Film production companies of Japan Category:Anime companies Category:Japanese film studios Category:Media companies of Japan Category:Film distributors Category:Entertainment companies of Japan Category:Companies based in Tokyo Category:Companies established in 1932
This text is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA License. This text was originally published on Wikipedia and was developed by the Wikipedia community.
