This subseries contains publications ofNippon Katsudō Shashin (Nikkatsu)/日本活動写真/Japan Cinematograph Company,including confidential documents, newsletters, postcards, magazines and a name list of Nikkatsu workers from the 1930s. Newsletters related to the Nikkatsu Tamagawa/日活多摩川 part of Nikkatsu can also be found in Subseries I.14: Director Files: Uchida Tomu.
A detailed listing of the items in Subseries IV.1 can be consulted in adownloadable Excel spreadsheet.
This subseries contains publications of Shōchiku Kabushikigaisha/松竹株式会社 (Shōchiku). These include confidential booklets, reports, newsletters, film catalogs, and magazines, as well as 1930s postcards to film critic Kume Masao/久米正雄 from Shōchiku staff.
A detailed listing of the items in Subseries IV.2 can be consulted in adownloadable Excel spreadsheet.
This subseries contains post-war magazines published by Tōei Kabushikigaisha/東映株式会社 (Tōei) or about Tōei films, programs, newspapers, and confidential papers. There are also files related to Daiei Kabushikigaisha/大映株式会社, including correspondence circa 1946.
A detailed listing of the items in Subseries IV.3 can be consulted in adownloadable Excel spreadsheet.
This subseries contains publications of the film production company Tōhō Eiga Kabushikigaisha/東宝映画株式会社 later Tōhō Kabushikigaisha/東宝株式会社, 1943) (Tōhō) and documents from the studios P.C.L. (an abbreviation of Photo Chemical Laboratories, (December 1933 -- 1937) and J.O. Studio (J.O. スタジオ, December 1934 -- 1937) that merged to form Tōhō Eiga Kabushikigaisha in August of 1937. Tōhō Eiga Kabushikigaisha then merged with Takarazuka/Tokyo Takarazuka Gekijō/東京宝塚劇場 in December 1943. These publications include union magazines and company newsletters as well as various internal departmental documents, mainly accounting documents, with salary and personnel records, business (distribution) reports, meeting notes, and studio plans, and company histories.
It also contains a book written by the founder of Tōhō, Kobayashi Ichizō/小林一三 and diaries written by the head of Marketing, Iwamoto Ichirō/岩下一郎. Of note are postcard notices, letters, and informational mailings from P.C.L. that were addressed to playwright and novelist Kume Masao/久米正雄. Still photographs from P.C.L films by the comedian Enomoto Ken'ichi/榎本健一 or "Enoken" can be found in Subseries XVII.1: Photos and Posters: Albums, Bromides and Stills. Also included in this Series are business surveys for film premieres during the years of government control of film, 1942-1944. This subseries also contains a Tōhō training manual,Chōsa shiryō/調査資料 no.4,which was a translation of Paul Rotha's book (translated into Japanese),Bunka eigaron/文化映画論.For more on Rotha, see Subseries VI.7: Subject Files: Documentary Film Materials. For more on Kume Masao and Takarazuka related materials see, Subseries III.7: Film-related Individuals' Files: Kume Masao/久米正雄.
The Subseries retains the general grouping of materials found in the Makino files, although not in the order Makino has written about in "Tōhō eiga bunken shiryō mokuroku (Senzen-hen) to kaidai," Kawasaki-shi Shimin Myūjiamu kiyō 8 (1996):79-124. Here, they are ordered by subject in the scope content notes and in alphabetical order within each subject in the description section as follows: P.C.L. materials, accounting documents, correspondence, diaries, General Affairs, labor unions (labor dispute materials), magazines, magazines (film technique), newsletters, miscellaneous company documents, and Tōhō company histories (in chronological order). This subseries contains some leaflets of bunka eiga (culture films) produced by Tōhō, but it does not contain the following Tōhō related materials for the most part: programs, handbills/fliers, scenarios, photographs or posters. These items can be found in other parts of the Makino collection.
A detailed listing of the items in Subseries IV.4 can be consulted in adownloadable Excel spreadsheet.
This Subseries contains materials related to several independent film companies. It includes documents from Ekuransha/エクラン社 film company and has post-war distribution materials from the independent film company, Art Theatre Guild/Nihon Āto Shiatā Girudo/日本アート・シアター・ギルド (ATG), which turned from distribution to production in the late 1960s. It also has documents from Shinsei Eiga/新星映画 and film school rules of Tōa Kinema/東亜キネマ.
A detailed listing of the items in Subseries IV.5 can be consulted in adownloadable Excel spreadsheet.