Makino Production Omuro Studio

June 1925

Hanazono Tenju Ga Oka

Randen Kitano Line Myoshinji Station

Shozo Makino, Masahiro Makino

Utaemon Ichikawa, Chiezo Kataoka, Kanjuro Arashi, Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Shozo Makino, Koroku Numata, Buntaro Futagawa, Masahiro Makino

Produced great stars of period dramas. Created sound film Modoribashi in 1929. Gion Kouta Ehigasa – directed by Bansho Kanamori in 1930, with the famous song Gion Kouta as the main theme. The studio was dissolved in October 1931.

February 1932

Hanazono Tenju Ga Oka

Randen Kitano Line Myoshinji Station

Masatsugu Takamura, Ryosuke Tachibana

Masatsugu Takamura

Tsurutaro Kataoka

Masahiro Makino, Taizan Goto

Takamura and Tachibana join forces with the Makino family to establish Shoei Makino Kinema. A fire destroyed the company on February 4, just after its establishment. Built a barracks and filmed Adauchi Kyodai Kagami and three other films. Dissolved at the end of March.

November 1932

Hanazono Tenju Ga Oka

Randen Kitano Line Myoshinji Station

Kisaburo Minami

Masatsugu Takamura

Masao Kume, Sanjugo Naoki

Kan Kikuchi

Mitsusaburo Ramon, Kikutaro Onoe, Kusuo Abe

Taizan Goto, Kumahiko Nishina, Taisei Horie, Hideo Oe

Acquired Toa Kinema with investment from Ichizo Kobayashi and established Takarazuka Kinema Kogyo. Disbanded in December 1933.

February 1934

Hanazono Tenju Ga Oka

Randen Kitano Line Myoshinji Station

Masatsugu Takamura

Masatsugu Takamura

Juzaburo Ichikawa, Fumio Shizuta

Taisei Horie, Kumahiko Nishina

Established as an agency of Takarazuka Kinema. Dissolved after the release of the first film, Majin Beni Tokage.

July 1934

Hanazono Tenju Ga Oka

Randen Kitano Line Myoshinji Station

Isuke Tanaka

Seiho Tanaka

Genzaburo Ayanokoji, Yukiko Ogawa

Taizan Goto, Koji Inaba

Etona Eiga-sha founded by Isuke Tanaka, a wealthy Kyoto family. Kataoka Chiezo Productions sound film studio was rented for the filming of a rokyoku film performed by Tanaka himself. Purchased former Makino Production Studio from Kouzu in December. Audio Cinema Research Laboratory established within the studio. Construction of sound film studio. Began work on sound films. The company produced nine rokyoku films and entertainment adaptations, and was dissolved at the end of May 1935 due to opposition from his relatives.

Shochiku Kinema Omuro Studio

1936

Hanazono Tenju Ga Oka

Randen Kitano Line Myoshinji Station

Kotaro Bando

Daisuke Ito

Makino Production Omuro Studio closed after acquisition by Etona Eiga-sha. Shochiku used Omuro Studio here only for Daisuke Ito’s Asagiri Toge in 1936.