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Tsuburaya Productions

Tokyo, Japan(approximate location)

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Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Television
Founded1966company website
LocationTokyo, Japan
Websiteen.tsuburaya-prod.co.jp
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Statusactive2026 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
6.9IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

52 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

8 wins from 38 nominations across all awards

Box office
$601,490

Combined US gross, 1 of 188 titles

Ultraman Nexus poster
Highest rated
Ultraman Nexus
2004
8.5500 votes
Mighty Jack poster
Lowest rated
Mighty Jack
1968
1.7700 votes
Mostly
action, adventure, sci-fi
Active
1967–2026
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Best known for
Ultraman: Rising

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 100 of 188 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
9556 seasons

1966–2026

Television rating
7.6IMDb

Their films average 6.8, so the television rates 0.8 higher.

Networks
  • TV Tokyo17
  • TBS11
  • CBC6
  • YouTube4
  • MBS4
  • TV Aichi3

Across 58 series matched to TMDB, 1,666 episodes. 2 still returning or in production.

Longest runningULTRAMAN · 3 seasons

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 238

94 films · 96 TV titles

Titles per year116 titles · busiest 2023 with 8

116 titles across 30 years, averaging 3.9 a year. The last five years average 4.6 a year, above their long-run rate.

Quality over time37 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
579their average 6.9200020102020

Their 2000s work is their strongest, averaging 7.8 across 14 titles. The 17 titles since 2015 average 6.9, 0.6 below their 7.5 overall. 13 of 37 rated titles sit above their 7.5 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Kazuya Konaka4
  • Yûichi Abe3
  • William Winckler3
  • Tsugunobu Kotani3
  • Kiyotaka Taguchi2
Writers
  • Keiichi Hasegawa8
  • Gridman4
  • Toshizo Nemoto3
  • Eiji Tsuburaya3
  • William Overgard3
Notable cast
  • Mamoru Miyano6
  • Tatsuomi Hamada4
  • Hideo Ishiguro4
  • Shôta Minami4
  • Susumu Kurobe4
Genres
  • Action83 of 100
  • Adventure59 of 100
  • Sci-Fi29 of 100
  • Comedy25 of 100
  • Animation13 of 100

Names appearing on two or more of Tsuburaya Productions’s produced titles, across the 100 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 Tsuburaya Productions on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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