Yoshizawa Shōten
Yoshizawa Shōten (
When the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904, Yoshizawa Shōten sent off a camera team to follow the Japanese troops. The public interest aroused by this media event allowed the studio to build more theatres around Asakusa[4] and to build Japan's first movie studio in Meguro in Tokyo in 1909.[5] It was even successful enough to print its own magazine, Katsudō shashinkai, and build an amusement park in Asakusa named after Luna Park in Coney Island in 1910. But when several arson incidents led to the destruction of several theatres and the Asakusa Luna Park in 1911, financial considerations prompted Yoshizawa to take part in the merger with Yokota Shōkai, M. Pathe and Fukuhōdō that formed Nikkatsu in 1912.[4]
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- da Silva, Joaquín (29 April 2016). "Chronology of Japanese Cinema: 1900". EigaNove.
- da Silva, Joaquín (29 April 2016). "Chronology of Japanese Cinema: 1903". EigaNove.
- Yoshizawa Shoten at the Internet Movie Database