Daiei Film

Daiei Film Co. Ltd. (大映映画株式會社 / 大映映画株式会社 Daiei Eiga Kabushiki-gaisha) was a Japanese film studio. It distributed Disney films in Japan in the 1950s.
==History==
Daiei's founding was the result of the Japanese government efforts to reorganize the film industry during World War II in order to increase control over the medium. Shinkō Kinema executive Masaichi Nagata pressed hard for a plan to create three studios - the Japanese government originally planned to merge all of Japan's film studios into two studios.Daiei: A History of the Greater Japan Motion Picture Company His efforts won out and Shinkō Kinema, Daito Eiga, and the production arm of Nikkatsu were merged in 1942 to form Dai Nippon Film Co., Ltd. (大日本映画製作株式会社 Dai Nihon Eiga Seisaku Kabushiki-gaisha), or Daiei for short. Novelist Kan Kikuchi served as the first president, with Nagata continuing as an executive.
==Disney films distributed in Japan by Daiei Film==
Title 	Title (Japan) 	Date of release (Japan)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	白雪姫 	September 26, 1950
Bambi 	バンビ 	May 18, 1951
Song of the South 	南部の唄 	October 19, 1951
Dumbo 	ダンボ 	March 12, 1954
Fun and Fancy Free 	こぐま物語 	August 9, 1954
The Living Desert 	砂漠は生きている 	January 14, 1955
Fantasia 	ファンタジア 	September 23, 1955
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 	海底二万哩 	December 23, 1955
Lady and the Tramp 	わんわん物語 	August 10, 1956
Saludos Amigos 	ラテン・アメリカの旅 	March 20, 1957
The Three Caballeros 	三人の騎士 	March 10, 1959
==References==
==External links==
*Japanese Disney film posters
Category:Non-Disney companies
Category:Production companies
Category:Japanese companies