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| Company type | Private KK |
|---|---|
| Industry | Motion pictures |
| Founded | 1942 |
| Founder | Shunsuke Inuma, Masaichi Nagata |
| Defunct | 2002 |
| Fate | Assets incorporated into Kadokawa Pictures |
| Successor | Kadokawa Daiei Studio |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | Japan |
Key people | Masaichi Nagata (President), Hidemasa Nagata (Vice-president) |
| Parent | Tokuma Shoten |
Daiei Film Co. Ltd. (Kyūjitai: 大映映畫株式會社 Shinjitai: 大映映画株式会社 Daiei Eiga Kabushiki Kaisha) was a Japanese film studio. Founded in 1942 as Dai Nippon Film Co., Ltd., it was one of the major studios during the postwar Golden Age of Japanese cinema, producing not only artistic masterpieces, such as Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon (1950) and Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu (1953), but also launching several film series, such as Gamera, Zatoichi and Yokai Monsters, and making the three Daimajin films (1966). It declared bankruptcy in 1971 and was acquired by Kadokawa Pictures.