Kitty Films
K. K. Kitty movie (Japanese株式会社 キティ·フィルム, Kabushiki - gaisha Kiti Firumu, Eng. Kitty Film Co. Ltd. ) is an anime production company and was founded in 1972 in Japan.
The company also operated a record label called Kitty Records, from 1995 together with Mercury Records Entertainment as Kitty MME and now part of Universal Music Japan.
History
The organization was founded in 1972 as Kitty Music Corporation of Hidenori Taga. It was a subsidiary of Polydor and Universal Music, which produced television soundtracks. The first was for the film Hajimete no Tabi and appeared 1972. 1979 the company began then in the direction of live-action tee with the films Kagirinaku Tomei ni Chikai Blue and The Rose of Versailles ( Kitty had no connection with the homonymous anime version of the latter, which was produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha ). From the year 1981 produced their first Anime Kitty Enterprises Urusei Yatsura on the eponymous manga by Rumiko Takahashi, the then came her biggest success. On 24 March 1982 Kitty then film was formed. In and outside of Japan Kitty film is known that they have implemented most manga series by Rumiko Takahashi as anime, Maison Ikkoku and Ranma ½ including. Rumiko Takahashi attended the same college as Shigekazu Ochiai, the planner of most anime productions of Kitty. Furthermore, kitty movie Urusei Yatsura In 1982, the official fan club, which was later renamed in 1986 to Kitty Animation Circle.
Despite her success as a producer, was the animation of Kitty's works by several independent anime studios. The first half of the TV series Urusei Yatsura and the first two films were animated by Studio Pierrot. Deen studio animated the rest of the series except for the OVA, as the third and the fourth film. Maison Ikkoku and Ranma ½ was completely animated by Studio Deen. Madhouse animated Urusei Yatsura the last film as well as some later OVA 's it. The animation of Ginga Densetsu Eiyū and Yawara! was completely animated by Madhouse.
Unfortunately, the company had financial problems from the beginning, which we came to notice in 1992, especially at the conclusion of the TV series Ranma ½. Hidenori Taga helped in the financing of Kitty's film division by having embezzled money from the music industry and was forced due to an unknown scandal in the year to resign, while Shigekazu Ochiai moved to Pao House Studios ( he died in 1999 ). After 1996 Ranma ½ Super: Futari no Akane: " Ranma, Atashi o Mite " (らんま½ SUPER二 人 の あかね「乱马,私 を 見 て! 」 ), Rumiko Takahashi wanted was published not interact with Kitty.
Since 2007, Kitty has worked as a talent agency, and sold most of the rights of their anime hits. One of the artists under contract is the Japanese female band SCANDAL. 2010 Kitty produced film with the studio Production IG another animated film Loups = Garou (ルー=ガルー).
Anime productions
Movies
TV series
Original Video Animation
Specials
Other Productions
- The Adventures of T -Rex (1992 U.S. / Japan co-production with DIC; Hidenori Taga and Shigekazu Ochiai have worked as a producer. )
- Ike! Inachū Takkyūbu
- Keiko Sena Obake Movies