Cinema Year Book of Japan 1938 (1938)
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No. 14, Uzumasa Oyabu-Machi, Ukyo-Ku, Kyoto Manager : Heiji Fujita General Manager : Seishi Soga Site of Studio : 10,000 tsubo
Stages : 5 stages (1 of 400 tsubo for silent pictures, 4 of 200
tsubo for talkies)
Sound Recording System : Western Electric Sound System, MNK System
Cameras : Mitchell 3, Eclaire 1, Parvo 3, Howell 4, Eyemo 1 Equipment of Electric Power : Alternating current 300 KW
Continuous current 400 KW Amount of Consumed Electric Power : 60,000 KW (Month)
Directors : Kichiro Tsuji, Ryohei Arai, Tomiyasu Ikeda, Hiroshi Inagaki, Masahiro Makino, etc.
Scenario Writers : Yoshio Takakuwa, Itaro Yamakami, Natsuo Koiso, Taisaku Ino, etc.
Cameramen : Teizo Matsumura, Seishi Tanimoto, Hideo Ishimoto, etc.
dumber of Actors : Male 90, Female 35, Juvenile 4 „ Property-men : 47
„ Dressers : 7
„ Hair-dressers : 10
SHINKO KINEMA CO., LTD.
No. 3, Hatchobori 2-Chome, Kyobashi-Ku, Tokyo Capital : ¥4,250,000
President : Shintaro Shirai Vice-President : Shiro Kido
Chief Managing Director : Kozaburo Miyakawa Number of Directors : 25
„ Cameramen: 14
„ Actors : Male 221, Female 123, Juvenile 45
“ SHINKO TOKYO STUDIO ’’
No. 1034, Higashi-Oizumi-Machi, Itabashi-Ku, Tokyo Manager : Osamu Rokusha Site of Studio : 40,500 tsubo
Stages : 6 stages of 200 tsubo for talkies, 1 sound recording stage
of 100 tsubo
Sound Recording System: Mohara System Shinko Phone Cameras: Mitchell 3, Eclaire 3, Bell & Howell 6, Parvo n, Eyemo 3
Equipment of Electric Power : Alternating current 560 KW Amount of Consumed Electric Power : 26,000 KW (Month)
Directors : Seiichi Ina, Kenji Mizoguchi, etc.
Scenario Writers : Mitsu Suyama, Bin Kisaragi, Shuichi Hatamoto, Tokusaburo Murakami
Cameramen : Jun’ichiro Aoshima, Koichi Yukiyama, etc.
Number of Actors ; Male 120, Female 78, Male juvenile 28, Female juvenile 16 Number of Property-men : 89
., Dressers : 9
„ Hair-dressers : 7
“ SHINKO KYOTO STUDIO ”
No. 9, Uzumasa Hachigaoka-Machi, Ukyo-Ku, Kyoto Manager : Masaichi Nagata
Site of Studio : 9,700 tsubo
Stages : 6 stages (1 of 200 tsubo, 1 of 150 tsubo, 1 of 120 tsubo,
for talkies, 3 of 150 tsubo for silent pictures)
Sound Recording System : Mohara System
Cameras : Mitchell 1, Parvo 1, Eclaire 2, Howell 1, Eyemo 3, Moviola 1
Equipment of Electric Power : Alternating current 450 KW Amount of Consumed Electric Power : 55,000 KW (Month)
Directors : Taisuke Ito, Akira Nobuchi, Kazuo Mori, etc. Scenario Writers : Fuji Yahiro, Giken Yoda, Ken’ichiro Hara Cameramen: Minoru Miki, Tsunejiro Kawasaki, etc.
Number of Actors : Male 101, Female 45, Juvenile 6 „ Property-men : 36
„ Dressers : 5
Number of Hair-dressers : 6
SHOCHIKU C0„ LTD.
No. 5, Shintomi-Cho 3-Chome, Kyobashi-Ku, Tokyo Capital : ¥38,000,000
President : Takejiro Otani
Managing Directors : Tadasuke Machida, Shiro Kido, Shintaro Shirai, Tomojiro Tsutsumi, Isaburo Inoue, Yoshitaro Kishi, Shigemasa Ino, Gennojo Okubo, Rvozo Mishima, Shuichi Tanaka
Distribution : Theatres under direct management: 29
„ Theatres under special contract : 289
., Theatres under percentage contract : 322
Number of Directors : 21
„ Cameramen: 17
,, Actors : Male 232, Female 127, Juvenile 31
" SHOCHIKU KINEMA OFUNA STUDIO ”
Ofuna-Machi, Kanagawa-Ken Manager ; Shiro Kido Site of Studio : 30,000 tsubo
Stages : 7 stages (1 stage of 400 tsubo, 2 of 300 tsubo, 3 of 200
tsubo, 1 of 200 tsubo for sound recording)
Sound Recording System : Tsuchihashi System Shochiku Phone Cameras : New Mitchell 3, Super Parvo 2, Bell & Howell 13, Howell 12, Eyemo 4, Parvo 4
Equipment of Electric Power : Alternating current 800 KW
Continuous current 75 KW Amount of Consumed Electric Power: 70,000 KW (Month) Directors : Yoshinobu Ikeda, Yasujiro Shimazu, Hiroshi Shimizu, Heinosuke Gosho, Keisuke Sasaki, Yasujiro Ozu, Kosho Nomura, Yasushi Sasaki, Minoru Shibuva, Kenkichi Hara, etc. Scenario Writers : Kogo Noda, Komatsu Kitamura, Akira Fushimi, Tadao Ikeda, Ryosuke Saito, Masao Arada Cameramen : Ko Kuwabara, Atsushi Nomura, Hideo Mohara, Hiroyuki Nagaoka, Toshio Ubukata, etc.
Number of Actors : Male 116, Famale 82, Male juvenile 8, Female juvenile 17
Number of Property-men : 34
„ Dressers : 13
“ DAIICHI KYOTO STUDIO OF SHOCHIKU”
No. 127, Shimokamo Miyazaki-Cho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto Manager : Katsumi Shinoyama Site of Studio : 20,010 tsubo
Stages: 4 stages (1 of 195 tsubo, 1 of 175 tsubo, 1 of 160 tsubo, 1 sound recording stage)
Sound Recording System : Tsuchihashi System Shochiku Phone Cameras : Parvo (talkie) 3, Mitchell 1, Parvo 7, Eyemo 2 Equipment of Electric Power : Alternating current 700 KW Amount of Consumed Electric Power : 60,000 KW (Month)
Directors : Teinosuke Kinugasa, Kintaro Inoue, Kosaku Akiyama, etc.
Scenario Writers ; 4
Cameramen : Kohei Sugiyama, etc.
Sound Operator : Takeo Tsuchihashi Number of Actors: Male 116, Female 40, Juvenile 6 ,, Property-men : 28
„ Dressers and Hair-dressers : 15
“ DAINI KYOTO STUDIO OF SHOCHIKU ”
Narabigaoka, Ukyo-Ku, Kyoto
Officers: Held by the officers of Daiichi Kyoto Studio of Shochiku Stages: 2 stages (1 of 190 tsubo for talkies, 1 of 200 tsubo for silent)
Equipment of Electric Power: 15,000 KW (Month)
TOHO EIGA C0„ LTD. (Toho Film Co„ Ltd.)
Matsuda Building, No. 2 Ginza Nishi-5-Chome, Kyobashi-Ku, Tokyo
Capital : ¥4,500,000
President : Taiji Uemura
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