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The Asahi Shimbun Company

Japan(approximate location)

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film
LocationJapan
Statusactive2025 credit i

How their work is rated

Average rating
7.6IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

66 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Oscars2of2nominations100%

285 wins from 733 nominations across all awards

Box office
$5m

Combined US gross, 11 of 99 titles

Mostly
drama, comedy, action
Active
1987–2025
Rotten Tomatoes
87%
Best known for
Drive My Car

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 73 of 99 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
22 seasons

2011–2016

Networks
  • Fuji TV2
  • Iwate Menkoi Television1
  • Sakuranbo TV1

Across 2 series matched to TMDB, 23 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.

Credits24 of 185

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Titles per year97 titles · busiest 2018 with 13

97 titles across 22 years, averaging 4.4 a year. The last five years average 1.8 a year, below their long-run rate. 2 of those 22 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time65 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
13579their average 7.6200020102020

Their 2000s work is their strongest, averaging 7.8 across 5 titles. The 46 titles since 2016 average 7.7, holding at their 7.6 overall. 4 of 65 rated titles sit above their 7.6 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Takashi Miike4
  • Keishi Otomo2
  • Katsuhide Motoki2
  • Kôji Fukada2
  • Nobuhiro Doi2
Writers
  • Jun Ikeido3
  • Kôji Fukada2
  • Ryûsuke Hamaguchi2
  • Masato Harada2
  • Ryôtarô Shiba2
Notable cast
  • Sôsuke Ikematsu4
  • Tasuku Emoto4
  • Kôji Yakusho4
  • Satoshi Tsumabuki3
  • Suzu Hirose3
Genres
  • Drama60 of 71
  • Action12 of 71
  • Comedy12 of 71
  • Crime10 of 71
  • History9 of 71

Names appearing on two or more of The Asahi Shimbun Company’s produced titles, across the 71 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.

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