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| Company type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Film and Television |
| Founded | October 1 1949, as Tōkyō Film Distribution (東京映画配給 Tōkyō Eiga Haikyō) |
| Headquarters | Chūō-ku Ginza 3-chōme 2-ban 17-kou, 104-8108 Tokyo , |
Area served |  Japan |
| Products | Motion pictures, publicity materials |
| Services | Film and TV distribution and marketing |
| Revenue | ¥ 66,300,000,000 (as of March 2006) |
Number of employees | 311 (as of March 31 2006) |
| Subsidiaries | Tōei Language Tech Center Tōei Animation Tōei Television Production Tōei Video Tōei Satellite Broadcasting |
| Website | (日本語) Tōei.co.jp |
The Tōkyō Film Public Corporation (東映株式会社, Tōei Kabushikigaisha') TYO: 9605 (incorporated as Tōkyō Film Distribution (東京映画配給, Tōkyō Eiga Haikyō) October 1 1949 (昭和二十四年十月一日, Shōwa nijūyonnen jūgatsu ichinichi, "the first Day of the tenth Month of the twenty-fourth Year of Enlightenment and Peace")) is a Japanese film and television production and distribution corporation. Headquartered at House 17, 2nd Lookout, 3rd District, Ginza, Chūō, Tōkyō (１０４－８１０８東京都中央区銀座三丁目二番十七号, Tōkyō-to Chūō-ku Ginza sanchōme niban jūshichikou), Tōei owns and operates thirty-four (34) cinema houses across Japan, a modest vertically-integrated studio system by the standards of the 1930's United States; operates studios at Tōkyō and Kyōto; and is a stockholder in several television companies. Notable productions include animations (アニメ, Anime), live action dramas using special visual effects (特撮, Tokusatsu), and historical dramas (時代劇, Jidaigeki).
Tōei was a pioneer in the use of character transformation (変身, Henshin) in live-action martial-arts dramas, a technique developed for the Kamen Rider Series (仮面ライダーシリーズ, Kamen Raidā Shiriizu), Devilman (デビルマン, Debiruman) and Ultraman (ウルトラマン, Urutoraman); the genre currently continues (as of 2007) with the Metal Heroes series (メタルヒーローシリーズ, Metaru Hīrō Shiriizu) and Super Sentai series (スーパー戦隊シリーズ, Sūpā Sentai Shiriizu).
As of March 2006, Tōei retains 11% of its common stock and 16% of its preferred stock (朝株, lit., "morning stock").
(For background on historical action-films (チャンバラ Chanbara) see Samurai cinema.)