Toho Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 東宝株式会社 | Hepburn: Tōhō Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese entertainment company primarily engaged in the production/distribution of films and television shows, and the production/exhibition of stage plays. It has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is one of the core companies of the Osaka-based Hankyu Hanshin Toho Group. Toho is best known for producing and distributing many of Ishirō Honda and Eiji Tsuburaya's kaiju and tokusatsu films as well as the films of Akira Kurosawa and the anime films of Studio Ghibli, CoMix Wave Films, TMS Entertainment, and OLM, Inc. The company has released the majority of the highest-grossing Japanese films. Toho's most famous creation is Godzilla, who is featured in 32 of the company's films. Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah, and Mechagodzilla are described as Toho's Big Five because of the monsters' numerous appearances throughout the franchise, as well as spin-offs. Toho has also been involved in the production of numerous anime titles. Its subdivisions are Toho-Towa Company, Limited (Japanese exclusive theatrical distributor of Universal Pictures via NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan), Towa Pictures Company Limited (Japanese exclusive theatrical distributor of Paramount Pictures), Toho Pictures Incorporated, Toho International Company Limited, Toho E. B. Company Limited, and Toho Music Corporation & Toho Costume Company Limited. The company is the largest shareholder (7.96%) of Fuji Media Holdings Inc. Toho is one of the four members of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ), is the largest of Japan's Big Four film studios, and is the only film studio that is a component of the Nikkei 225 index.
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Earthbound (released in the Japanese states as Mother 2 ) is a 1997 American-British science-fiction epic film based on the video game of the same name developed by Ape Inc. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo and a sequel to (1991). It stars Gary Nelson, Kate Locklain, Jeffrey Paul, Shiro, Alex Hall, Matthew Morrison, Liam Neeson, William Shatner, Robin Williams, and Tim Curry. Like its predecessor, the film was produced by Johnson Studios in conjunction with the BBC, Toho, and Timothy Hill Productions, with 20th Century Fox handling US distribution. A high-budget, star-studded film with elaborate special effects, it is often noted for being one of the longest films Johnson Studios has ever made, clocking in at three hours and thirty minutes. As a result, the film was initially presented in a roadshow style with an intermission.
