- published: 09 Oct 2010
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Shochiku Company Limited (松竹株式会社, Shōchiku Kabushiki gaisha) (TYO: 9601) 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.
Mit Schnappes fing der Tag gut an
mit meinen Kollegen hab ich dann
den ganzen Tag im Rausch verbracht
Wir ham' den Tag zur Nacht gemacht
So ein schöner Tag
So ein schöner Tag
So ein schöner Tag
Zum Saufen braucht man keinen Grund
Ich steck die Flasche in den Mund
Zwei Kasten Bier, eine Flasche Korn
die Leber schreit, ich hab verlorn