Cinema year book of Japan (1937)

In the year of 1936, when the experimental period for talkies at last terminated, we have the plan of the Nippon Motion Picture Co., Ltd. to produce principally literary works, and, on the other hand, Shochiku’s studio at Ofuna was completed. From September, pictures were begun to be made in full swing and a new and keen P. C. L. (Photo Chemical Laboratory Co., Ltd.) has doubled its productions due to the result of its policy planned of distributing its productions to fill the requirements of a whole program in a movie theatre in Japan, which consists of two features and one short film. The number of films and the cost of production of chief companies are as follows : Name No. of pictures Deduced amount Shochiku Clique 100 ¥ 2,200,000 Nippon Motion Picture Co.(Nikkatsu) Clique 100 // 2,000,000 The Toho Film Distributing Co. Clique 26 // 1,000,000 Shinko Kinema Co. Clique 99 // 1,900,000 Daito Motion Picture Co. Clique 101 n 600,000 Makino Clique 55 // 500,000 Others 33 // 1,000,000 Total 513 // 9,200,000 Classification and number of Studio-workers in Japan (Table 1) Director Assistant director 03 *""* c £ 2 a C O Shochiku, Ofuna 11 _ 10 Shochiku, Kyoto 12 18 6 Nikkatsu, Tamagawa 12 24 13 Nikkatsu, Kyoto 10 13 10 Nikkatsu, Chiezo Production 4 4 2 Toho, P. C. L. 8 19 7 Toho, J. O. 2 7 3 Shinko, Oizumi 33 32 Shinko, Kyoto 13 19 8 Shinko, Arashi-Kanjurd 2 r> Production U Daito, Sugamo 7 8 7 Makino, Kyoto 6 15 7 Kyokuto, Furuichi 4 3 4 Koyo Production 3 4 3 cameraman Actor Film technician Property man Office worker Total Male Female Male Female Male Female Male Female — 143 99 13 14 45 — 15 1 351 52 98 42 18 5 55 — 45 4 355 24 96 63 31 7 161 9 96 7 543 10 88 35 22 7 54 4 31 3 287 3 18 6 I 1 26 — 10 — 73 18 25 36 55 4 46 1 42 8 259 4 16 2 13 — 13 1 34 6 101 — 161 86 8 9 49 — 34 8 420 37 99 42 3 3 61 9 50 4 348 2 25 3 — — — — 7 1 46 8 120 70 5 — 4 6 6 — 241 15 67 31 2 3 12 — 13 — 171 4 69 18 — — 32 2 21 — 157 4 48 15 — 27 4 21 — 129 48