Cinema year book of Japan (1937)

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The number of directors: 21 cameramen: 17 actors: male 215, female 120, juvenile 31 Note: Sh5chiku Kinema Co., Ltd. was merged into Shochiku Exhibiting Co., Ltd. February 1937; the new company is called Shochiku Co., Ltd., capitalized at ¥ 37,401,250. The officers of Shochiku Co., Ltd. are as follows: — President: Takejiro Otani Vice president: Shintaro Shirai Chairman of the committee of managing directors: Matsujiro Shirai Managing directors: Managers : Tadasuke Machida, Shiro Kido, Isaburo Inoue Hiroshi Otani, Shigemasa Inoue, Ryozo Mishima “SHOCHIKU KINEMA OFUNA STUDIO” Ofuna-Machi, Kanagawa-Ken Manager: Shiro Kido Head of the General Affair Department: Osamu Rokusha Head of the Producing Department: Yoshinobu Ikeda Head of the Business Department: Sukeyasu Furuta The site of the studio: 30,000 tsubo Stages : 7 stages ( 1 stage of 400 tsubo , 2 stages of 300 tsubo , 3 stages of 200 tsubo, 1 stage of 200 tsubo for sound-recording) Sound-recording system: Cameras: Tsuchihashi System Shochiku Phone New Mitchell 3 Super Parvo 2 Bell and Howell 13 Howell 12 Aimmo 4 Parvo 4 Equipment of electric power: alternating current 800 KW continuous current 75 KW Amount of consumed electric power: 70,000 KW (per month) Directors: Yoshinobu Ikeda, Yasujiro Shimazu, Hiroshi Shimizu, Hei Scenario writers: nosuke Gosho, Torajiro Saito, Keisuke Sasaki, Yasujiro Ozu, Kosho Nomura, Shuzo Fukada, Hideo Munemoto, Yasushi Sasaki Kogo Noda, Komatsu Kitamura, Akira Fushimi, Tadao Ikeda Investigator of technique: Developing technician: Cameramen : Momosuke Yoshida Toshimi Nassho Ko Kuwabara, Atsushi Nomura, Suketaro Igai, Yoshiyasu Hamamura, Shojiro Sugimoto, Hideo Mohara, Yoshio Taketomi, Joji Ohara, Isamu Aoki, Michio Takahashi Sound engineer: Haruo Tsuchihashi Music director: Keizo Horiuchi The number of actors: male 116, female 82, male juvenile 8, female juvenile 17 The number of property men : dressers : 34 13 80