Toho, Japan’s most powerful movie studio, is launching a production services offshoot intended to assist and grow foreign film and TV shoots in the country. Toho Tombo Pictures is a joint venture w…
, who has worked with the top entertainment companies around the globe for more than 30 years.
Pope previously ran Twenty First City Inc. as head of production, establishing the company as Tokyo’s leading international production service company. She has supported production of Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult—starring “Equals,” the Japanese episodes of “Girls,” “Queer Eye We Are in Japan,” the Japanese episodes of “Mozart in the Jungle” and “Giri/Haji” for the BBC and Netflix.
While Japan has been a beacon of popular culture for decades and has a deeply-rooted and Oscar-winning film sector, meaning that interest in Japan is high, overseas film and TV production with the country has not always been straightforward. Many Japanese producers have worked within the “production committee” system which draws in capital from local media, ad agencies and investors, but also operates to minimize risk-taking.
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