Dainichi Eihai Explained

Dainichi Eihai
Type:	Private KK
Industry:	Motion pictures
Fate:	Assets incorporated into Kadokawa Pictures and Nikkatsu
Founded:	June 1970
Defunct:	August 1971
Hq Location Country:	Japan
Area Served:	Japan
Key People:	Hideo Matsuyama (President), Shigezo Tsubota (Manager)
Parent:	Daiei Film, Nikkatsu

, or simply, 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)
(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)

External links

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

Notes and References

Web site: Nagata Masaichi. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120402174949/http://www.jabira.net/retsuden/na/nagata.htm. 2 April 2012. 21 September 2011. Keizai ketsubutsu retsuden. Jabira.
Web site: Hirukawa. Kōtarō. Daiei shi. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120324083307/http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~mtt20017/zemiron7.htm. 24 March 2012. 21 September 2011. Daiei Kyōto Satsueijo to sono chiiki.
Web site: Shoemaker. Greg. Daiei: A History of the Greater Japan Motion Picture Company. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720033529/http://www.historyvortex.org/HistoryDaiei.html. 20 July 2011. 24 September 2011. The History Vortex.
Web site: Shoemaker. Greg. Daiei: A History of the Greater Japan Motion Picture Company. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070918045020/http://www.historyvortex.org/HistoryDaiei.html. 18 September 2007. 19 November 2017. The History Vortex.
Web site: Kadokawa Company History 2002(H14). 30 December 2011. ja.