Nikkatsu

Nikkatsu K. K. (Jap.日 活 株式会社, Nikkatsu Kabushiki - gaisha, .. engl Nikkatsu Corp. ) is a Japanese film company.

It was formed in 1912 from a number of companies under the name Nippon Shashin KK Katsudo (日本 活动 写真 株式会社, dt as: "Japanese motion pictures AG"), short Nikkatsu. Initially introduced Nikkatsu especially very successful films in the tradition of shimpa Theatre ago and soon controlled jointly with Tenkatsu ( Tennenshoku Katsudo ) the Japanese market. Nikkatsu made ​​use of this method to give films of the shimpa tradition coupled with other films. Among the best known directors, who worked for Nikkatsu in the 1920s and 1930s, including Minoru Murata Kenji Mizoguchi and.

1941, the Japanese film industry was forced by the government to a concentration, thereby Nikkatsu went with the smaller companies Daito and Shinko up in a new company, which later Daiei. The other two major film companies were Toho and Shochiku. In 1954 Nikkatsu was re-established as an independent company.