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() is a large Japanese Film Studio . It is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo , and is one of the core companies of the Hankyu-Toho Group . In the West, it is best known as the producer of many '' Kaiju '' (monster) movies, the films of Akira Kurosawa , and the animated films of Studio Ghibli .


HISTORY


Toho was founded by the Hankyu Railway in 1932 as the . It managed, among other properties, the Tokyo Takarazuka Theater and the Imperial Garden Theater in Tokyo ; Toho and Shochiku enjoyed a duopoly over theaters in Tokyo for many years.


MAJOR PRODUCTIONS



Film




Television



In more recent years, they have produced Video Games and to a limited extent Anime . One of their first video games was the 1990 NES game titled Circus Caper .


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