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Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan Inc.
Native name
株式会社ソニー・ピクチャーズ エンタテインメント
Romanized name
Kabushiki gaisha Sonī Pikuchāzu Entateinmento
Company type Joint venture ( KK)
Industry Entertainment
FoundedFebruary 10, 1984; 40 years ago (1984-02-10)
(as RCA/Columbia Pictures Video Co., Ltd.)
August 7, 1991; 32 years ago (1991-08-07)
(as Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan Inc.)
Headquarters〒105-8415
No. 28, 4-chome, Toranomon, Minato
Tokyo
Toranomon Towers Office
Japan
Key people
Midori Tomita
(CEO)
Products Motion pictures
Television programs
Anime
Owner Sony Group Corporation
Number of employees
149 (as of July 1, 2023)
Parent Sony Pictures Entertainment (62.1%)
Sony Group Corporation (33.3%)
CPE Holdings Inc. (4.6%)
Subsidiaries Animax Broadcast Japan
Kids Station
Music On! TV (with SMEJ)
Madhouse (5%, with Nippon TV)
Website sonypictures.jp

Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan Inc. (株式会社ソニー・ピクチャーズ エンタテインメント, Kabushiki gaisha Sonī Pikuchāzu Entateinmento), abbreviated SPE or SPEJ, is a Japanese film studio, based in Minato-ku, Tokyo. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, with the majority of SPEJ's shares held by Sony Pictures Entertainment. [1] [2]

Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan and Mitsui & Co.'s joint venture AK Holdings is the majority shareholder of Japanese anime satellite television company Animax Broadcast Japan and Kids Station.

They have also distributed most of Sony Pictures films for Japan, as well as producing some anime and anime films as well. [3]

Anime production

References

  1. ^ About Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan
  2. ^ Company Overview of Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
  3. ^ "Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan Archives". Animation Magazine.

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