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Production CompanyFilm

Kôbunsha

Tokyo, Japan(approximate location)

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Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film
Founded1983company website
LocationTokyo, Japan
Websitekbunsha.com
Emailinfo@kbunsha.com
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Statusactive2025 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
6.4IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

6 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

8 wins from 11 nominations across all awards

The Great Passage poster
Highest rated
The Great Passage
2016
7.4573 votes
Toiretto poster
Lowest rated
Toiretto
2010
5.5829 votes
Mostly
drama, comedy, family
Active
2009–2025
Rotten Tomatoes
91%
Best known for
Creepy

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 12 of 17 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
21 season

2015–2016

Networks
  • Fuji TV1

Across 1 series matched to TMDB, 11 episodes.

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits19

14 films · 2 TV titles

Titles per year19 titles · busiest 2016 with 3

19 titles across 22 years, averaging 0.9 a year. The last five years hold at 1.2 a year. 9 of those 22 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time6 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
5678their average 6.4200020102020

2 of 6 rated titles sit above their 6.6 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Notable cast
  • Hidetoshi Nishijima2
  • Yûko Takeuchi2
Genres
  • Drama9 of 12
  • Comedy3 of 12
  • Crime2 of 12

Names appearing on two or more of Kôbunsha’s produced titles, across the 12 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with12 companies

Companies that appear alongside Kôbunsha on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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