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===Background=== | ===Background=== | ||
Shintoho Co. Ltd. was a Japanese film production and distribution company. It splintered from major company [[Toho Co., Ltd.|Toho]] in 1947 because of disagreements on labor organization and management within the company (its name means "New Toho"). Toho distributed many Shintoho-produced films and Shintoho was initially a subsidiary of Toho, but this arrangement didn't last. With the arrival of producer Mitsugu Okura in 1955, Shintoho attained its reputation of a producer of low-budget genre titles: horror, mystery, and war films at first, but later becoming more daring with sexploitation films. It was the smallest of the so-called "Big Six" Japanese film studios of the 1950s, and declared bankruptcy in October 1961 after the release of the film ''Hell'' (''Jigoku''), directed by Nobuo Nakagawa, but its last film was 1962's ''Kanashimi wa itsumo haha ni'', released theatrically by [[Daiei Motion Pictures|Daiei]] and also directed by Nakagawa. | '''Shintoho Co., Ltd.''' was a Japanese film production and distribution company. It splintered from major company [[Toho Co., Ltd.|'''Toho''']] in 1947 because of disagreements on labor organization and management within the company (its name means "New Toho"). Toho distributed many Shintoho-produced films and Shintoho was initially a subsidiary of Toho, but this arrangement didn't last. With the arrival of producer Mitsugu Okura in 1955, Shintoho attained its reputation of a producer of low-budget genre titles: horror, mystery, and war films at first, but later becoming more daring with sexploitation films. It was the smallest of the so-called "Big Six" Japanese film studios of the 1950s, and declared bankruptcy in October 1961 after the release of the film ''Hell'' (''Jigoku''), directed by Nobuo Nakagawa, but its last film was 1962's ''Kanashimi wa itsumo haha ni'', released theatrically by [[Daiei Motion Pictures|Daiei]] and also directed by Nakagawa. | ||
A [[Shintoho Eiga|company under the same name]] was founded by an ex-Shintoho employee almost immediately after Shintoho's bankruptcy, but this "new Shintoho" (which still exists today) is unrelated to the pre-1961 Shintoho except in name. | A [[Shintoho Eiga|company under the same name]] was founded by an ex-Shintoho employee almost immediately after Shintoho's bankruptcy, but this "new Shintoho" (which still exists today) is unrelated to the pre-1961 Shintoho except in name. | ||