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2 unusual facts about Toei Company


Power Rangers Collectible Card Game

Toei's Super Sentai Series television franchise is the primary source of Japanese footage for Power Rangers.

Rei Toei

The Toei film and music company is a well known studio in Japan, with a well-deserved international reputation.


Alleycat Rock: Female Boss

Alleycat Rock: Female Boss was designed by Nikkatsu to compete with Toei's Delinquent Boss series, which, in turn, had been inspired by Roger Corman's early outlaw biker film, The Wild Angels (1966).

Gekisō Sentai Carranger: Zenkai! Racer Senshi

Toei was so impressed by Bandai of America's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for the Super Nintendo, a title initially released only in America, that Toei decided to make a game of that same style based on a Super Sentai series rather than an American Power Rangers adaptation.

Hanuman and the Five Riders

Unlike Chaiyo's two official co-productions with Tsuburaya Productions in 1974 (namely The 6 Ultra Brothers Vs. the Monster Army and Jumborg Ace & Giant), this production was unauthorized by Toei Company, Ltd., which produced the Kamen Rider shows.

Izumi Sakai

For the next two years following her scouting, she was a Toei "karaoke queen" and a promotional model appearing in television commercials for Japan Air System.

Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride

The game is being released as part of the 10th anniversary of the Heisei run Kamen Rider Series by Toei, TV Asahi, Ishimori Productions, and Bandai and features heavy tie-ins with the television series Kamen Rider Decade, whose protagonists use cards similar to those used in the game.

Sumiko Fuji

The daughter of a producer at the Tōei studios, she originally began acting under the name Junko Fuji (藤 純子), becoming famous as the female lead in yakuza films against such stars as Ken Takakura and Kōji Tsuruta.

Tomoharu Katsumata

Katsumata graduated from Nippon University's film school in 1960 and began working with the Kyoto division of the Toei Company that same year as an assistant director to Masahiro Makino, Eiichi Kudo, Tomotaka Tasaka on his samurai dramas.

Yōko Mihara

Following Shintoho's bankruptcy in 1961, Mihara had worked almost exclusively for Toei, including four films in Ishii's Abashiri Prison yakuza film series in 1966 and 1967 and later onsen geisha sexploitation films, eventually becoming a staple actress of the studio's "pinky violence" sub-genre by early 1970s.


see also

Tetsujin

Daitetsujin 17, a 1977 television series created by Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei Company