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'''Toei Company''' is a Japanese film company founded in 1949 during the dismantling of the traditional Japanese film industry, as a result of some of the oldest elements of motion picture producers Makino, , Tokyo Film Distribution, and Ohizumi Films. In its early years, Toei preferred to build local cinemas in villages and near train stations more than make good movies. In 1956, Toei established an animation division, [[Toei Animation (Japan)|Toei Animation Company Limited]] at the former Tokyo-Ōizumi animation studio, purchasing the assets of Japan Animated Films. In 1960, Toei established Daini Toei (later [[New Toei (Japan)|New Toei]]) to produce and distribute more gendaigeki films, where it's being a genre of Japanese drama that deals with contemporary life. The company is also best known for producing television shows (mainly coming from the Tokusatsu genre) such as the ''Kamen Rider'' and ''Super Sentai'' series.

'''Availability:''' Very common. Seen on Toei releases from the late 50s to 2001. Sometimes it is removed or plastered with local distributors logos on export prints, but is often retained. Common films that have this are the ''Dragon Ball'' films, the Sonny Chiba ''Street Fighter'' films (the [[New Line Home Video]] releases, and public domain prints of the first two films, retain them, with the theatrical R-rated versions using the truncated versions of their opening themes as heard over the [[New Line Cinema]] logo on original American release prints), ''Animal Treasure Island'', ''The Bullet Train, The Fugitive From The Past'', and ''Karate Bullfighter''. It can also be found on ''YuYu Hakusho: The Golden Seal'', which they distributed on behalf of Studio Pierrot. The variant that says "A TOEI PICTURE" appears on the English version of Shogun's Ninja. The Thorn EMI release of ''Roaring Fire'' has the variant with the text "TOEI COMPANY, LTD. Presents" fading in below. It is not known if it appeared on any prints of ''Fist of the North Star'' but all known versions currently available do have an in-credit reference to Toei at the beginning of the film. Don't expect it to appear on current prints of the [[Kadokawa Shoten (Japan)|Kadokawa Shoten]]-produced films that they distributed. It may have been on older prints of ''Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'' but no evidence has shown up as of yet. It was also probably seen on the earliest prints of ''Castle In The Sky'' and ''Kiki's Delivery Service'' but has since been replaced on most home video releases of both films with the current [[Studio Ghibli (Japan)|Studio Ghibli]] logo.

* ''One Piece Film: Gold'': The trailer has the Toei logo in gold.

* ''One Piece Film: Red'': The trailer has the Toei logo in Uta's colors of red and white.

* ''Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger: The Movie'': The Toei logo pans to the left, leading into the opening scene on the beach.

'''Availability:''' Currently in use. Films that have this are all modern ''Super Sentai'' and ''Kamen Rider'' films and the Special Edition of ''Battle Royale'' among others. This also appears on Japanese releases of American co-productions, such as the 2017 ''Power Rangers'' film.