Tag: Nikkatsu
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1950-53: DAIEI & DISNEY
For the first time since the passing of the 1939 Film Law, it was legal to import films from overseas.
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1941: NIKKATSU & THE ANTS
In 1941, Mickey Mouse strikes a terrible propaganda blow, and the last of the original Japanese animation studios closes.
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1934: TANAKA & OISHI
Toho Studio made their first moves in animation. But one director has made his last.
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1931: NIKKATSU & YAMAMOTO
In 1929, Nikkatsu Studios set up a new animation department. They would soon hire “the father of anime”.
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1907-1923: THE ANIMATION BUBBLE
There were three dominant Japanese film studios at the start of 1917. There were exactly zero frames of animation.