JAPAN: FILM MAKER ISAO MATSUOKA HEAD OF THE TOHO COMPANY TALKS ABOUT HIS FILM CAREER AND LIFE TIME AWARD FROM CINE ASIA

Record ID: 388126

  • Title: JAPAN: FILM MAKER ISAO MATSUOKA HEAD OF THE TOHO COMPANY TALKS ABOUT HIS FILM CAREER AND LIFE TIME AWARD FROM CINE ASIA
  • Date: 12th December 1998
  • Summary: (SOUDBITE)(JAPANESE) MATSUOKA SAYING: "I'll be spending New Year's eve with my family in Japan.. ahead of 1999 which will be a very important year for the Japanese film industry. Over the past few years, the number of movie theatres has increased, as has the number of the people paying to see films ... and this was despite previous years when we experienced declines in bo
  • Embargoed: 27th December 1998 12:00
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  • Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
  • Country: Japan
  • Topics: Entertainment,General
  • Reuters ID: LVACE0UZKF324ML2HL9JUDA97NR2
  • Story Text: Isao Matsuoka, chairman of the Japanese film and televison company Toho is expected to arrive in Hong Kong on Tuesday (December 08) where he is to receive the lifetime achievement award at the CineAsia movie convention.Before he left Tokyo to receive the award Mr Matsuoka talked to Reuters about his four decade long career in the industry Isao Matsuoka joined Toho in 1957, was named president twenty years later in 1977 and elevated to chairman in 1995.According to CineAsia's co-managing director Jimmy Sunshine under Matuoka's guidance Toho has grown into one of the most respected entertainment conglomerates in the world.
    Toho's core activities include cinemas (44 screens in prime locations in Japan, plus an additional 110 theatres operated by affiliates), film and TV production, live shows and property.
    The film Godzilla is Toho's best known asset....and for over forty years...about the time Mr Matsuoka has been at the company...has been one of Japan's best known and best loved movies.
    It was Matsuoka who oversaw a deal where Hollywood's Sony studio took up the rights to produce a Godzilla movie in the United States.In return, Toho would get royalties from new Godzilla goods and they would be able to take the movie to their theatres in Japan.
    Previous CineAsia lifetime achievement honorees include Golden Harvest's Raymond Chow, Village Roadshow's Roc Kirby and Shochiku's Toru Okuyama.
    The fifth CineAsia conference, which includes a trade show, seminars and previews of December 10.
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