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Foundation date 1 october 1950
Toei Company, Ltd. (東映株式会社, Tōei Kabushiki-gaisha) (pronounced toe ay) is a Japanese film, television production, and distribution corporation. Based in Tokyo, Toei owns and operates thirty-four movie theaters across Japan, studios at Tokyo and Kyoto; and is a shareholder in several television companies. It is notable for anime, live action dramas known as tokusatsu which use special visual effects, and historical dramas (jidaigeki).
The name "Toei" is derived from the company's former name "東京映画配給 (Tōkyō Eiga Haikyū)" (Tokyo Film Distribution Company).
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(1984)Filmography of Toei Company (342 films)
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Street Mobster (1972)
, 1h32Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Origin Japon
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Ando, Asao Koike, Hideo Murota, Takeo Chii, Nenji Kobayashi
Le narrateur (Okita) se présente rapidement au spectateur. Il raconte son enfance difficile et la manière dont lui et son gang gagnait de l'argent. Refusant de payer les Takigawa qui contrôlent la ville, Okita les attaque au couteau et est envoyé en prison pour cela. La violence dont il fait preuve lui permet d'obtenir le statut de chef parmi les détenus.
Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
, 1h33Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Kōji Tsuruta, Noboru Ando, Ken Takakura, Tsunehiko Watase, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Kaku Takashina
Gunji Sadao, oyabun du clan Hamamura sort de prison après 10 ans de détention causé par ses rivaux du clan Daito qui dirigent désormais la ville de Yokohama.
Animal Treasure Island (1971)
, 1h18Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Films about disabilities
Actors Hitoshi Takagi, Kōsei Tomita, Asao Koike, Eiko Masuyama, Naozumi Yamamoto, Jōji Yanami
Jim, the young assistant of the keeper of the Admiral Bembo inn, and his mouse friend Gran (Rex in English) are one night asked by a rough, one-legged stranger for a room and to watch out for suspicious-looking characters. The latter, a band of black-cloaked assassins, soon arrive, and the man asks Jim to take care of the casket he's been carrying before engaging the intruders. Jim and Gran narrowly escape. After they return to the ransacked inn later, they open the casket in hopes of gaining some money for compensation for the damage. Inside they find a map to the treasure hidden by the infamous pirate Captain Flint.
A Kamikaze Cop (1970)
, 1h29Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Sonny Chiba, Tetsurō Tanba, Nenji Kobayashi, Ryōhei Uchida, Kenji Kazama
Au Japon, un policier s'est infiltré dans un gang pour mieux le faire exploser de l'intérieur...
Horrors of Malformed Men (1969)
Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Horror
Actors Asao Koike, Masaomi Kondō, Kichijirō Ueda
Après s'être évadé d'un hôpital psychiatrique, un homme prend l'identité d'un mort afin d'enquêter sur étrange cas de sosies. Il se retrouve sur une île où sévit un médecin qui transforme des hommes en monstres...
Flying Phantom Ship (1969)
, 1hOrigin Japon
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror, Animation
Actors Gorō Naya, Masako Nozawa, Kōsei Tomita, Junko Hori, Hiroshi Masuoka, Hiroshi Ōtake
Hayato's home city is under attack from a gigantic robot. His parents are lying dead in the rubble and the only remaining friend is his dog. His only thought now is revenge against the owner of the Phantom Ship (from where the robot said he was sent).
Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)
, 1h36Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Asao Koike, Kichijirō Ueda, Keiko Tsushima
Une femme, qui entretient une liaison incestueuse avec son frère, se vend pour payer les soins de ce dernier. Dans un couvent, une soeur entretient une relation avec un moine, déclenchant ainsi la colère et la jalousie de la mère supérieure. Le tatoueur le plus talentueux du Japon assiste à des tortures de femmes occidentales afin de réaliser son chef d'oeuvre.
Horus: Prince of the Sun (1968)
, 1h22Directed by Isao Takahata
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Feminist films, Political films
Actors Mikijirō Hira, Etsuko Ichihara, Yoshiko Asai, Tadashi Yokouchi, Corinne Orr, Eijirō Tōno
Set in an unspecified northern kingdom, the film opens with the young Horus (aka Hols) (Hisako Ōkata (Japanese)/Billie Lou Watt (English)) attempting to fight off a pack of "silver wolves," and accidentally waking up an ancient stone giant, named Mogue (or Rockoar in some editions of the film). Horus succeeds in pulling a splinter from the giant's shoulder, which transpires to be a rusty and ancient sword. The giant proclaims this to be the "Sword of the Sun," promising also that when the sword has been reforged, he will come to Horus, who will then be called "Prince of the Sun".
The Green Slime (1968)
, 1h17Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure, Horror
Themes Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Transport films, Films set in the future, Musical films, Political films, Dystopian films, Impact events in fiction, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Disaster films
Actors Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Dunham
A group of astronauts set out to stop the asteroid Flora, which is on a collision course with the planet Earth. They land on the asteroid, plant explosive charges and destroy it. Afterwards they return to the staging area, a space station called Gamma 3 in orbit around the Earth. Unfortunately, a scientist from the mission has unwittingly carried a luminous-green substance on the leg of his spacesuit which quickly mutates into one-eyed, tentacled monsters with the ability to discharge lethal bolts of electricity. The Gamma 3 crew fend off the alien creatures with their laser-based weaponry, only to discover the creatures feed off the energy which, in turn, allows them to multiply rapidly, sprouting the new creatures from their blood. As the creatures overrun the station the crew continues to fight back against overwhelming odds.
The Revenge of Dr. X (1967)
, 1h34Directed by Eddie Romero, Gerardo de León
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors James Craig
Dr. Bragan (James Craig) is a NASA mathematician working on a mission to outer space. The stress of the mission causes him to have a mental breakdown, so his assistant, Dr. Paul Nakamura (Yagi), suggests he takes a vacation in Japan to recuperate.
Young Jack and the Witch (1967)
, 1h20Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Horror, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Kazuo Kumakura, Hiroshi Ōtake, Jōji Yanami, Masako Nozawa, Keiko Yamamoto
The film opens with a retelling of Beowulf, narrated over pans of paintings imitative of stained glass, then cuts to Jack, a boy who lives with his animal friends Barnaby Bear, Dinah Dog, Squeeker Mouse and Phineas Fox and drives a car resembling a Ford Model T, even inside the house. One day while out driving Jack sees a girl named Allegra in a flying machine and challenges her to race. After he loses Allegra offers him a ride and he accepts, along with Squeeker Mouse who sneaks aboard. Allegra is actually a witch, and takes Jack to the castle of the evil queen Auriana, who changes children into harpies to be her slaves. Squeeker is sucked into a machine that changes him into a harpy but Jack escapes. When Allegra and another harpy named Harvey Harpy pursue Jack he leads them away from the castle. Harvey Harpy ends up lassoing Jack's animal friends and they get tangled together in the rope. Barnaby Bear starts laughing at the predicament, and soon all are laughing. They take Harvey Harpy back to the house, where they sing and dance together. Spying on them through a window Allegra seems to soften a little as she watches the fun. However, when Jack returns to the house she tries to capture him with a magic rope that has a claw on the end, but the animals drive her away by pelting her with dishes. In some fan copies of the English version about 8 minutes is cut out here, including scenes where Allegra returns to the castle and a battle between Allegra and Jack where she pulls his house off the ground and drops it into a lake. Allegra is injured when she crash lands her flying machine, and Jack takes her back to his house to let her recover. When she comes to she sees Jack, and smiles for a moment, but then flees back to the castle, knocking Jack over as she goes. Jack and friends go back to the castle to rescue Squeeker Mouse, and they encounter Allegra again. She promises to help them since they were so kind to her when she was injured, but instead she leads them into a trap that drops them into a land where the plants try to eat everybody. At the end giant mushrooms drop Jack and friends into a pit with the machine that changes children into harpies. The wind starts to suck Jack into the machine, while the Harpies chant 'Into the Machine!'. Barnaby Bear remembers that a giant windmill powers the machine, so he runs off and stops it. With the windmill immobilized other harpies jump into the pit to take Jack prisoner, but Barnaby Bear finally lets go of the windmill and the harpies are sucked into the machine, which overloads and explodes, with Jack and friends escaping. Queen Auriana punishes Allegra for her failure to capture Jack by exiling her to the ice caves beneath the castle. Harvey Harpy is sad to see Allegra punished, even opposing the queen for her harshness, so when he runs into Jack he explains what happened to Allegra, and leads him to the ice caves to rescue her. Meanwhile, Barnaby Bear, Phineas Fox and Dinah Dog are captured by the queen, who imprisons them in magic bottles and leaves them to watch what happens to Jack in a crystal ball. When Jack rescues Allegra from the ice caves, the queen transports them back to the pit, where she battles them with a golden chain she uses as a whip. When Squeeker Mouse tries to cover up the crystal ball with his cape so no one can see what is happening to Jack he knocks the crystal ball to the ground and it cracks. This breaks the spell imprisoning the animals, and they realize that the crystal is the source of the queen's power. Barnaby Bear throws the crystal ball out the window, and when it shatters the queen loses her powers and is transformed into a large goblin-like creature. Jack and friends pursue the queen, who has a large air-ship ready for her escape. She sets a time bomb to explode after she leaves, but Harvey Harpy ties the bomb to her air-ship as it takes off. As the queen tries to remove the bomb she crashes into the castle and explodes. This destroys the castle and breaks the spell cast by the evil queen, and one by one all the harpies turn back into children, including Allegra and Harvey, who celebrate with Jack.
The Magic Serpent (1966)
, 1h34Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action
Themes Films about animals, Kaiju films, Sports films, Martial arts films, Films about dragons, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Hiroki Matsukata, Ryūtarō Ōtomo, Nobuo Kaneko, Seizō Fukumoto
The Oumi Kingdom, ruled peacefully by Lord Ogata (Shinichiro Hayashi), was raided by his corrupt general Daijo Yuki (Bin Amatsu), who is assisted by an evil ninja named Orochimaru (Ryūtarō Ōtomo), who slays the lord and his wife, who in turn trust their young son Ikazuchi-Maru to their soldiers, who escape the kingdom in a small boat. Orochimaru goes after them, transforming into a giant serpent. He sinks the boat and almost succeeds in killing Ikazuchi-Maru, until a giant eagle flies along, injures Orochimaru, and saves the young boy.
Abashiri Prison (1965)
, 1h32Directed by Teruo Ishii
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Ken Takakura, Koji Nanbara, Tetsurō Tanba, Kanjūrō Arashi, Toru Abe, Kunie Tanaka
In Hokkaido's Abashiri Prison, Shinichi Tachibana, model prisoner with six months remaining in his sentence is handcuffed to Gonda, a hardened criminal. When Gonda and other inmates escape from the prison, Tachibana must go along.
Kuro no Tozoku (1964)
, 1h36Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Ryūtarō Ōtomo, Hashizo Okawa
13 Assassins (1963)
, 2h5Directed by Eiichi Kudō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Samurai films
Actors Chiezō Kataoka, Kō Nishimura, Ryōhei Uchida, Kanjūrō Arashi, Sumiko Fuji, Kōtarō Satomi
À la suite d’un ordre secret émanant d’un haut dignitaire du shogunat Tokugawa, 13 hommes ont un objectif commun : assassiner Matsudaira Nariaki, le daimyō du clan Akashi, un homme sanguinaire et despotique, devenu incontrôlable. Ils ont soixante jours pour réussir cette mission suicidaire…