Daiei Film is a Japanese film studio founded in 1942 as Dai Nippon Film Production and renamed Daiei in 1945. It became one of the major studios of the postwar Golden Age of Japanese cinema, producing both artistic works and popular franchises. The original company went bankrupt in 1971, was restructured by the publisher Tokuma Shoten in 1974, and was acquired by the publisher Kadokawa Shoten in 2002, with its operations transferred to the newly established Kadokawa Daiei Studio.
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In 1942, it was established as Dai Nippon Film Production (大日本映画製作, Dai-Nippon Eiga Seisaku) through corporate consolidation under the government's wartime controls, and in 1945, the company name was changed to simply Daiei (大映株式会社).
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founded = 1942; 1974 (Daiei Film, a subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten); 2002 (Kadokawa Daiei Film, a subsidiary of Kadokawa Shoten)
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1971 (Original) 2002 (Daiei Film, a subsidiary of Tokuma Shoten) 2011 (Kadokawa Daiei Studio, Kadokawa Daiei Film, a subsidiary of Kadokawa Shoten)
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