Dainichi Eihai

Dainichi Eihai

Company type	Private KK
Industry	Motion pictures
Founded	June 1970
Defunct	August 1971
Fate	Assets incorporated into Kadokawa Pictures and Nikkatsu
Headquarters	Japan
Area served	Japan
Key people	Hideo Matsuyama (President), Shigezo Tsubota (Manager)
Parent	Daiei Film, Nikkatsu

Dainichi Film Distribution Co., Ltd (ＤＮ ダイニチ映配株式会社, Dainichi Eihai Kabushiki gaisha), or simply Dainichi Eihai (ダイニチ映配, Dainichi Eihai), was a Japanese film studio. It was active from June 1970 to August 1971.

History

In the late 1960s Daiei Film began to experience financial problems; in June 1970 Daiei and Nikkatsu merged to share distribution costs to combat financial problems and formed Dainichi Eihai.^[1][2] The partnership between Daiei and Nikkatsu lasted until August 1971, when Nikkatsu withdrew from the deal leaving Daiei Film to face bankruptcy, the company later was purchased by Tokuma Shoten in 1974 and later was re-purchased by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing creating Kadokawa Daiei Studio.^[3][4][5]

Filmography

• Blind Woman's Curse (1970)
• Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)
• Blood For Blood (1971)
• Gokuraku bozu (1971)
• Wet Sand in August (1971)
• Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)
• Suzunosuke Akado: The Birdman with Three Eyes (1958; 1971 re-release)
• Zatoichi and the One-Armed Swordsman (1971)
• Kanto Destruction (1971)
• Kimi wa umi o mita ka (1971)
• Hiroku Nagasaki onna-ro (1971)
• Hiding-Place in the Storm (1971)
• Yoru no shinsatsushitsu (1971)
• Games (1971)

References

1. "Nagata Masaichi". Keizai ketsubutsu retsuden. Jabira. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
2. Hirukawa, Kōtarō. "Daiei shi". Daiei Kyōto Satsueijo to sono chiiki. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
3. Shoemaker, Greg. "Daiei: A History of the Greater Japan Motion Picture Company". The History Vortex. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
4. Shoemaker, Greg. "Daiei: A History of the Greater Japan Motion Picture Company". The History Vortex. Archived from the original on 18 September 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
5. "Kadokawa Company History 2002(H14)" (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 December 2011.

External links

• Laputa Asagaya / Dainichi Eihai Nostalgia (Screened in 2007) Retrieved May 18, 2021 (in Japanese)
• Dainichi Eihai on Japanese Cinema Database (in Japanese)