Shintoho

**Shintoho Co. Ltd.** (新東宝株式会社, *Shintōhō kabushiki kaisha*, or *New Tōhō Company*) was a Japanese movie studio. It was one of the big six film studios (which also included Daiei, Nikkatsu, Shochiku, Toei, and Toho) during the Golden Age of Japanese cinema. It was founded by defectors from the original Toho company following a bitter strike in 1947. To compete with the other major studios in the horror/supernatural movie field, Shintoho turned out a large group of such films between 1957 and 1960, including a number of period ghost movies and low-budget science fiction films (such as the Starman (Super Giant) series which was designed to compete with rival then-popular characters Planet Prince, Space Chief and Moonlight Mask. Shintoho declared bankruptcy in 1961, its last production being Jigoku.

## Films

* Nozomi nakini arazu (1949)
* Ikoku no oka (1949)
* Ryusei (1949)
* Yu no machi ereji (1949)
* Shin Tokyo ondo-Bikuri goningumi (1949)
* Design of a Human Being (1949)
* Shinya no kokuhaku (1949)
* Guudo bai (1949)
* Enoken - Okochi no Tabisugata ninki otoko (1949)
* Zenigata Heiji torimonocho hikae-Heiji hapyakuyacho (1949)
* Ginza kankan musume (1949)
* Nabejima kaineko den (1949)
* Otoko no namida (1949)
* Daitokai no kao (1949)
* Umon torimonocho-Nazo no hachiju hachiya (1949)
* Tobisuke's Adventures (1949)
* Hateshinaki jonetsu (1949)
* Wasurerareta kora (1949)
* Akireta museme tachi (1949)
* Stray Dog (1949)
* Enoken - Kasaoki no Gokuraku fufu (1949)
* Ohara Shosuke-san (1949)
* Damoi (1949)
* Jinsei senshu (1949)
* Rinchi (1949)
* Kage wo shitaite (1949)
* Enoken - Kasaoki no Osomehisamatsu (1949)
* Shojoho (1950)
* Aktsuki no daso (1950) (translation: Escape at Dawn)
* Tokyo Kachinka musume (1950)
* Ishinaka sensei gyojyoki (1950)
* Tsuma to onna kisha (1950)
* Enoken no sokonuke daihoso (1950)
* Umi no G-Men-Genkainada no musume (1950)
* Muko sangen ryodonari-Koi no sanmoneko (1950)
* The Depths (1957) a.k.a. Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi (Ghost Story of Kasane Swamp)
* Seven Mysteries (1957) a.k.a. Ghost Story of Wanderer at Honjo (Kaidan Honjo Nanfushigi)
* Starman: Atomic Rulers of the World (1957)
* Starman: Invaders from Space (1957)
* Starman: Attack from Space (1957)
* Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957)
* Starman: Evil Brain from Outer Space (1958-1959)
* Black Cat Mansion (1958) a.k.a. Borei Kaibyo Yashiki
* Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War (1958)
* Ghost of Chibusa Enoki (1958) a.k.a. Kaidan chibusa enoki
* The Ghost of Yotsuya (1959) a.k.a. Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan
* Woman Vampire (Onna kyuketsuki) (1959) a.k.a. Lady Vampire
* The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal (1959)
* Girl Diver of Spook Mansion (1959) a.k.a. The Haunted Cave
* Blood Sword of the 99th Virgin (1959)
* Ghost of Kagami-ga-fuchi (1959) a.k.a. Kaidan Kagami-ga-fuchi
* Ghost of the Girl Diver (1960) a.k.a. Kaidan ama yurei
* Ghost Cat of Otama Pond (1960) a.k.a. Kaibyo Otama-ga-Ike
* Sennin Buraku (1960)
* Jigoku (1960) a.k.a. Sinners of Hell; released as "adults only"

## Directors

* Daisuke Itō
* Heinosuke Gosho
* Hiroshi Shimizu
* Kunio Watanabe
* Toshio Shimura
* Masaki Mori
* Kiyoshi Saeki
* Seiichirô Uchikawa
* Torajirō Saitō
* Nobuo Aoyagi
* Hiroshi Inagaki
* Hiromasa Nomura
* Masahiro Makino
* Kajirō Yamamoto
* Koji Shima
* Kazuo Mori
* Kôzô Saeki
* Motoyoshi Oda
* Keigo Kimura
* Eisuke Takizawa
* Mikio Naruse
* Kyotaro Namiki
* Yasujirō Ozu
* Kenji Mizoguchi
* Shirō Toyoda
* Taizō Fuyushima
* Akira Hagiwara
* Tai Kato
* Seiji Maruyama
* Nobuo Nakagawa
* Kon Ichikawa
* Teruo Ishii
* Tatsuo Yamada
* Shinichi Sekizawa
* Yûsuke Watanabe
* Umetsugu Inoue
* Shūe Matsubayashi
* Hideo Suzuki
* Shin Saburi
* Tatsuo Saito
* Kaneto Shindo
* Tomu Uchida
* Shunkai Mizuho
* Tomiyasu Ikeda
* Kyoji Kumita
* Kinuyo Tanaka
* Seiji Hisamatsu
* Takeshi Sato
* Ryō Hagiwara
* Yutaka Abe
* Yasuki Chiba
* Akira Kurosawa
* Yoshiki Onoda
* Michiyoshi Doi
* Nagayoshi Akasaka
* Kiyoshi Komori
* Satoru Kobayashi
* Keinosuke Tsuchiya
* Yoshihiro Ishikawa
* Yorio Nakagawa
* Toshiro Omi
* Hiromichi Takebe
* Akira Miwa
* Takashi Shimomura
* Shigeo Takahashi
* Kichitaro Shibata
* Makiharu Katsumata
* Eizō Yamagiwa

## Actors

* Kanjūrō Arashi
* Yatarō Kurokawa
* Denjiro Okochi
* Susumu Fujita
* Jun Tazaki
* Gen Funabashi
* Tomisaburō Wakayama
* Tetsurō Tamba
* Ken Utsui
* Shigeru Amachi
* Tadao Takashima
* Kôji Matsubara
* Hiroshi Ayukawa
* Shin Takahashi
* Toshio Hosokawa
* Yūji Kawakita
* Ureo Egawa
* Keinosuke Wada
* Bunta Sugawara
* Teruo Yoshida
* Shuntarô Emi
* Yoichi Numata
* Eiji Wakasugi
* Hiroshi Hayashi
* Jūzaburō Akechi
* Shozaburo Date
* Keiji Takamiya
* Tatsuo Terashima
* Toshiaki Konoe
* Hiroshi Asami
* Jun Ôtomo
* Kôtarô Sugie
* Hiroyuki Ôta

## Actresses

* Hideko Takamine
* Ranko Hanai
* Asami Kuji
* Kyōko Kagawa
* Sachiko Hidari
* Michiko Maeda
* Junko Ebata
* Miyuki Takakura
* Naoko Kubo
* Yōko Mihara
* Masayo Banri
* Junko Ikeuchi
* Mayumi Ozora
* Utako Mitsuya
* Chisako Hara
* Noriko Kitazawa
* Hisako Yamane
* Kinuko Obata
* Misako Uji
* Junko Uozumi
* Keiko Hibino
* Kyōko Ōgimachi
* Terumi Hoshi
* Mako Sanjō
* Katsuko Wakasugi
* Kyôko Anzai
* Akiko Yamashita
* Kyoko Yashiro
* Reiko Seto
* Akemi Tsukushi
* Kinuyo Tanaka
* Yasuko Mita
* Sakyo Michiko