Daiei Film

Daiei Film
Company typePrivate KK
IndustryMotion pictures
Founded1942
FounderShunsuke Inuma, Masaichi Nagata
Defunct2002
FateAssets incorporated into Kadokawa Pictures
SuccessorKadokawa Daiei Studio
Headquarters
Area served
Japan
Key people
Masaichi Nagata (President), Hidemasa Nagata (Vice-president)
ParentTokuma Shoten

Daiei Film Co. Ltd. (Kyūjitai: 大映映畫株式會 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.